Aram Stefanian Poems

You made your bed on your own hook
Why moan over the side effects?
You'd better take a second look
To fix all mechanical defects
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Alice was back in the infamous house on Elm street
It seemed silent, except for a pair of running feet
A china doll just missed her head, crashing to the floor
A tricycle started riding by itself and stopped at the door
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Why can't you stop crying in your beer?
The problem addicts bore the pants off me
Get a life! You can overcome your fear
Together, we can go on a weekend spree
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You look like a sleeping beauty
In a crystal coffin in the forest
Unlike the fairy tale, my fervent
Kisses ain't gonna wake you up
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You are numbed out on angel dust:
A bad tripper over jagged rocks.
Too scared both of your perverse past
And of your destined eternity-box.
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Numbed out on angel dust, you try to zap the demons inside
Not in the know that they're on a little joy ride
Feeding you a crackpot idea like gobbling the sun
As soon as the eternal night falls, the deal is done
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You wish you could nuke prenatal haunting memories
Of being confined in the stygian aqueous space.
Dead to the world, yet wide awake in your ghostly reveries
To the danger of plummeting to earth at a snail's pace.
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A red and yellow falling leaf outside my window
Reminds me of my shattered sympathetic heart.
I wish I could never with my adolescence part
To be on the same wavelength with Evan Dando.
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He said, ''I am at nonstop war with the Princes of Hell.
I'm gunning for brave demon fighters. Ready for this? ''
I told him I didn't mind, but I was lacking in skill.
''Just let it all hang out, ' he said, ''And nothing will go amiss.''
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My guardian angel had me fill his shoes for a day:
I got a bang out of flying over the rotating Earth.
By gorgeous mainlands and oceans was I blown away,
Hoping my eagle eye would lead me to my native hearth.
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