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Berliner

from Berliners by Surprise Flapjacks

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I do not entirely know what I mean,
When I say, “I feel like a Berliner circa ’63.”

Sun is down, the winter ground is braced, it seems
For a snow or UFO bombardment fleet.

Dust upon the needle sets it crackling,
Like Emile Berliner somewhere cackling.

Moon looks like a flashlight through a tambourine,
Frozen still yet quillessly inscribing without ink.

As beneath a minaret or mezzanine
a supplicant or dinner guest is trembling.

I have skipped my dinner once or twice this week,
Dreaming of berliners set on bakery sheets.

At the epicenter of not a goddamn thing,
I am dreaming of berliners and it tastes so sweet.

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from Berliners, released September 29, 2011

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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