Plead Temporary Insanity

Plead Temporary Insanity
© Surazeus
2025 02 19

When nonsense of America coheres 
in modest riddle of the goal to win 
wealth of wisdom from the laboring hand, 
Cynthius will show up at our front door 
with the billion-dollar fake check of greed 
to plead temporary insanity. 

Since trees are important to development 
of urban zones with well-manicured lawns, 
legions of devils Cynthius commands 
drive fancy cars across the river bridge 
to hide their luminous sorrows with pride 
and plead temporary insanity. 

One million immigrants with holy books 
talk to each other in dream-tangled verse 
through syntax of magicians who employ 
electric wires to program robot knights 
who march with guns to conquer paradise 
and plead temporary insanity. 

Cynthius, who escapes the solemn church, 
hides in cave where Plato the Puppeteer 
performs shadow play on the wall of truth 
so he can write weird formulas for faith 
to translate machine language from sea waves 
and plead temporary insanity. 

Alone on mountain of the broken skull, 
Cynthius plays soul-haunting melody 
on silver flute of melancholy hope, 
while goldfinch of the phantom menace lands 
on his shoulder with sprig from the plum tree, 
to plead temporary insanity. 

Wandering in library of singing books, 
Cynthius searches for story of faith 
where love overcomes death with honesty, 
but all he finds are frilly fairy tales 
about the fool who gets lost on his quest 
to plead temporary insanity. 

Riding the horse of arrogant disdain 
for preachers who scam the people with lies, 
Cynthius moves with his sad memories 
that vibrate music in bones of his soul 
when he shows kindness to war refugees 
who plead temporary insanity. 

Meeting Cupid and Psyche at the bar 
where Phanaeus plays classical folk songs, 
Cynthius reveals the pearl of great price, 
shaped like the star-luminous Eye of God 
which heals our broken hearts with secret love, 
to plead temporary insanity.