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Stephin Merritt Writes Another Song About the Moon

from An Impressionist's Thumb by Monkey Typing Pool

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He probably has.

Also: a little parlor-game challenge to come up with not one but two thirteen-syllable rhymes.

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Another match is burnt to ash,
another weakened cocktail drunk,
another jukebox echo lost in smoke and haze.

A pen erasing, tracing lines,
a silhouetted window strung
with lights from outside; blocks away a stray dog bays.

Even where it’s night, some lovers long to shout for June—
Stephin Merritt writes another song about the moon.

A flight of stairs, a broken clock,
teacups, Chinese gongs,
a ukulele on the wall, a strand of rope.

An empty glass, an ashtray full…
another hundred songs…
a rhyming dictionary, and an old brown coat.

Leaving there, it’s light, and others throng about too soon—
Stephin Merritt writes another song about the moon.

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from An Impressionist's Thumb, released December 1, 2022

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Monkey Typing Pool Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Just one guy with minimal gear whose main goal is to produce songs that sound like things he wants to hear...which, for some reason, no one else has bothered recording yet.

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