Like a Sad Monster

from The Serpent and The Crane by Alan Semerdjian and Aram Bajakian

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LIKE A SAD MONSTER
Alan Semerdjian

Like a sad monster in search of grief,
like the weathered ruins of pagan temples,
like the body on fire without fire,
a million screaming numbers without their charts,
like a hole in the earth afraid of burial,
like magic without a professor,
like blame and its surrogate parents,
like the deputy of a faceless town of pyre
after pyre, like incomprehensible ignitions,
like a lover going against his love,
like another going towards his love,
like his love alone and needing to be alone,
like the neglectful farmer who pursues lust
instead of harvest, night instead sun,
like a pirate, a thief, a murderer, a ghost,
like all the mischief in the world put to sleep
in a box next to one irreconcilable act,
the reverberating tentacles of that act,
the play that never ends, the seat that is unbearable,
like the curtain, dark red curtain that will eventually fall
and, perhaps, not rise again, not open again,
we continue to believe what is unbelievable,
continue to do what is unthinkable.

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from The Serpent and The Crane, released April 24, 2020

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Alan Semerdjian New York, New York

Songwriter, poet, and educator Alan Semerdjian has been making and performing music in the NYC/Long Island area and beyond since 1990. His entire annotated musical catalog will be available exclusively here on bandcamp by 2023.

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