Lyrics: Dave Malloy
Music: Dave Malloy
SUSAN
one morning
i woke up on the floor next to the bed—
almost made it
i stared into the decaying dust village underneath
and i spied something curious
(she pulls out a stack of papers.)
an unbound sheaf of typewritten yellowed pages
tucked underneath a stack of time/life the enchanted world hardcovers
it smells like cardamom
“The Berries and the Plums:
The End of a Wartime Romance
by Zelma Natalija Birģelis”
(grandmother appears.)
GRANDMOTHER
hello susan
SUSAN
hello grandmama