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Opera pouring from the tenement

dark sobbing into the light

Callas drinking absinthe under an assumed name

In Toulon then singing Calypso for sailors asleep in a basement

those great songs are not our songs

songs we know crown us like flowers

Songs of the past Noelle their white walls

all around me

return gold sounds

big clean amps once chimed so sad and transistor

machines played drums it was the fashion

now distant and cold enough to trouble the ghost in you

still riding your bike under pink hi fidelity thunder

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Matthew Zapruder, from The Pajamaist, Copper Canyon Press 2006. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder except choral vocal arrangement by Michael Kaulkin. Acoustic Bass - Nate Brenner; Choral vocals by members of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble: Lynne Morrow, Lark Coryell, Angie Doctor; Piano, organ, percussion, lead vocal - Michael Zapruder. Choral vocals recorded by Eli Crews at Tiny Telephone Studios. Acoustic bass and piano recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Organ, percussion and lead vocal recorded by Michael Zapruder at 1924 Franklin.

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Michael Zapruder Austin, Texas

“Michael Zapruder makes beautiful folk-pop ballads resonant of the voice of Rufus Wainwright and wordplay of Andrew Bird" – Pitchfork

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