Attention Of The Court

Attention Of The Court
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The trees of sorrow on the laughing plain 
call my secret name in arrogant rain, 
so I seek beauty on the wind-lashed shore 
far outside comfort of the broken door 
to sing with demons of Plutonian night 
who shriek in horror at comfort of light. 

Yet, when I wake in normal state of mind, 
that bizarre illusion my brain designed 
dissipates at glow of dawn on the wall, 
so I wander groggily down the hall 
to stare out the window and drink orange juice 
while pretending I am not son of Zeus. 

As agent of his secret justice squad, 
recruited out of college by Storm God, 
I must devise coherent action plan 
with clever wisdom of the mountain man 
to save our great nation from tyranny 
and restore functioning democracy. 

So I fry eggs and hash browns on the stove 
while I count weapons in the treasure trove, 
then drive the crowded highway into work, 
where old spies and treasonous assets lurk, 
to write detailed situation report 
about the need for clandestine support. 

Organizing gangs of soldiers with guns 
who discuss war plans with misleading puns, 
I gather army of fierce patriots 
who arrive in pairs and take up their spots 
to remove the traitor from seat of power 
who hides terrified in his golden tower. 

Just as we are ready to save the state 
Minerva intervenes with spear of fate, 
declaring that we are a nation of laws 
dedicated to maintain noble cause 
of justice through attention of the court 
to enforce the right and punish the tort. 

Though the traitor threatens to seize rich land, 
and the thief waves the chainsaw in his hand, 
we will not employ acts of violence 
that would break all dutiful precedence 
to arrest their rampage of grasping greed 
through application of our honest creed. 

Biding our time in shadows of the truth, 
we develop plan with messiah sleuth 
to arrange by the book through legal means 
Operation Caesar with judgment liens 
executed well by our cosmic herald 
who leads revolution to save the world.