Watch Them All Die On Television

Watch Them All Die On Television
© Surazeus
2005 11 07

A thousand people drown in fast floods 
and another thousand work in offices 
and another thousand whirl in tornadoes 
and another thousand drive cargo trucks 
and another thousand patrol hot streets 
of desert towns battling invisible ghosts 
who shoot at them with bullets of hate 
and another thousand work in car factories 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Tsunami waves from ocean earthquake 
drown two hundred seventy thousand souls 
and earthquake in high mountains shake 
giant rocks that crush school children 
killing eighty thousand dreaming souls 
and car bombs kill ten thousand sad souls 
struggling to survive in violent war zone 
and men rape and murder ten thousand girls 
because they cannot control holy goddess 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Two thousand soldiers die in Oil War 
and fifty thousand citizens of desert land 
die from bombs and bullets and cars 
that explode when men seeking virgins 
in heaven of their bleak imagination 
plow into markets and lines of unemployed 
and ten thousand men wounded in Oil War 
hobble and blink in hospital of grim despair 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Hitler killed ten million people in war 
and Stalin killed fifty million people 
and Truman killed a million people 
with atomic bombs on island of Japan 
and Pol Pot killed a million people 
and Mao Tse Tung killed a million people 
and greedy Saul killed his thousands 
then David killed tens of thousands 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Nebuchadenezzar killed a million people 
and Ramses killed half a million people 
and Salmaneser killed a million people 
and Alexander killed two million people 
and Genghis Khan killed three million 
and Salahadin killed a million people 
and Charlemagne killed two million people 
and Napoleon killed three million people 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Millions of people died of bubonic plague 
and millions of people died from influenza 
and millions of people died from smallpox 
and polio crippled or killed millions more 
and cholera destroyed lives of millions 
and millions of people died of starvation 
and millions more died of broken hearts 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Millions of people were shot by arrows 
and millions were blasted dead by bullets 
and millions were tortured and executed 
and millions were burned in fires of fear 
and millions wasted from tobacco or coke 
and millions raped and stabbed and shot 
and millions were beaten and crucified 
and millions were killed in car accidents 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Countless millions of people in history 
were murdered by animals or people 
and millions more died from diseases 
and natural disasters killed millions more 
souls with perceiving eyes that dream 
alive our world in bright conscious minds 
that were swallowed by blackness of death 
and eliminated from flow of dream time 
soul flames that sizzled and sparked 
an hour of life before being extinguished 
while I watch them all die on television. 

What were their names I want to know 
and I want to write stories of their lives 
in Book of Life and Death to record 
every woman and man who ever lived 
whether for a brief hour of gasping cries 
or a long century of acting out desires 
doing constructive or destructive acts 
no matter if they accomplished great things 
or stumbled confused through weird maze 
while I watch them all die on television. 

Some believe your souls are now animals 
and others believe you all burn in hell 
or you float helpless in gray fog of limbo 
or you strum harps on clouds of heaven 
or you vibrate in light circle of nirvana 
and others believe you are shining ghosts 
who flutter about on sparkling rays of rain 
muttering as your eyes glow with dream 
and others believe your bodies rot to dirt 
after your souls dissipate into nothing 
while I watch you all die on television. 

Will you exist again in faces of children 
born from those who managed to give birth 
before they were killed or died of old age 
or will you all be woven into fabric of light 
that vibrates hot with eternal spirit of life 
within molecules in web of our genetic eyes 
to rise for brief flash of sudden existence 
so we may sing with immortal voice of God 
before we all die leaving children behind 
for our dreaming as one is Mind of Allah 
while I watch you all born on television. 

Secret Pond Of Laughing Wolf

Secret Pond Of Laughing Wolf
© Surazeus
2005 08 16

Laughing Wolf stares at clear blue water 
reflecting shimmer of noon Summer sun. 
I walked seven Winters from Sawkatuket 
toward dying sun through forests of men 
who wanted to make me their slave-wife 
then over endless desert of white sand 
I trudged dreaming in vain about blue rain. 
I found a green mountain with pine trees 
so now I sit alone feeling a cool breeze. 

I saw strange men with snow-white skin 
kill my mother and father with sticks 
that spit fire so I followed sun path 
over hills and deserts to find a haven 
where I can hide forever inside my heart. 
Laughing Wolf eats fresh-roasted rabbit 
and drinks boiled water with willow bark. 
When she lies awake for hours at night 
she counts stars twinkling like eyes. 

This is my secret pond hidden in mountains 
of red mushrooms and singing elk and pines. 
Laughing Wolf dances around her small pond 
twelve times under red shimmering moon 
feeling blood flow from her aching heart. 
Maybe I will return to Walatowa next Spring 
and let Running Bear kiss me again for fun 
she whispers as Autumn winds blow more cold. 

Laughing Wolf gathers nuts and red mushrooms 
and smokes rabbits to prepare for Winter 
storing food she gathers in small cavern 
she found where steam curls from gloom. 
Pausing she watches large hawk circle slow 
overhead hoping its eyes do not see her move 
as she glides silent in blue forest shade. 
Wrapping elk fur tight over her shoulders 
she huddles by fire smelling sweet smoke 
as flames crackle scarlet from pine cones. 

Laughing Wolf dreams she walks white sands 
of endless flat desert without fresh water 
or trees to shade her head from glaring sun. 
Snakes rattle tails and bare sharp teeth 
and black tarantulas crawl on her legs 
when she wakes and scorpions crawl fast 
down her back as she glides in gold shade. 
Sitting alone in desert sand at sunset 
Laughing Wolf weeps remembering sweet face 
of her mother among golden trees of Autumn 
when leaves of red and yellow fluttered slow 
covering wigwam on shore of Narragansett Sea. 

I walked far west from lush Massachusett hills 
leaving behind sweet restless voice of waves 
and wandered lost in white sands of death 
till I found trail into secret mountain vales 
where I hide from men with weapons of hate. 
How long before they discover my secret pond 
Laughing Wolf wonders as she watches snow fall 
shrouding silent mountain meadows in sad peace. 

Laughing Skull Of Hamlet

Laughing Skull Of Hamlet
© Surazeus
2005 04 13

Polished white by millions of hands 
laughing skull of Hamlet gleams proud 
on marble altar in enormous cathedral 
of endless halls with shining mirrors 
that exaggerate size of human egos 
long ago measured by forgotten words. 

Watching Angels driving motor cars 
laughing skull of Hamlet flashes beams 
from glass eyes to illuminate freeways 
leading millions of monkeys in gray suits 
in circles chasing rainbows of wealth 
while Grendel lounges in hidden cave 
watching television and drinking beer. 

Grinning from bookshelf in large office 
laughing skull of Hamlet bleeds red cross 
on pure white robe of Christ that hangs 
from cross in iron hand of Sir Lancelot 
who rides green tank into Holy Crusade 
for oil over dunes into Garden of Eden. 

Rising from death a thousand times more 
laughing skull of Hamlet cracks crystal 
of light bulb egg to stream little Cupids 
on fluttering wings around humble head 
of elegant Galatia who rises from sea shell 
feet bathed in swirling soft waves of time 
that crack foundations of ancient empires. 

Explaining calculation of geometric spirit 
laughing skull of Hamlet chews atomic gum 
then blows bubble of vast galaxy of stars 
that shine in halo over head of Jehovah 
whose gleaming eye is source of Big Bang 
that flares forth from pumping of her heart 
for each planet teeming with organic life 
is blood cell swirling in her nebula veins. 

Chortling at comic antics of Charlie Chaplin 
laughing skull of Hamlet rolls down hill 
of Golgotha to crumble at feet of Beowulf 
who leads roaring Gyathinians into battle 
against Danagans leaping from wood ships 
to fight over apple trees full of red ravens 
leaving only me standing alive in sea of blood. 

Whistling folk tunes heard long ago on radio 
laughing skull of Hamlet explains to Madonna 
mystery of Melusine who guards water well 
because her spine is serpent of eternal soul 
who transforms into body of her daughters 
and multiply into millions of Angels in jeans 
who drive chariot of Ezekiel on Highway Nine. 

Pondering philosophy of determination will 
laughing skull of Hamlet rests on head 
of Napoleon like crown of world power 
but falls off and rolls into hands of Nietzsche 
who makes it into lamp he carries at night 
when he shouts God is dead for we killed 
faith in illusions with rational discourse 
then monkeys throw bones at spaceships. 

Sleeping in hands of Holy Mother Ister 
laughing skull of Hamlet gazes at empire 
of America from top of One-Eye Pyramid 
photographing faces for database of names 
that record deeds of every human alive 
to plot patterns of experience to create 
civilization of respect within law of sword 
wielded by Arthur who chooses who to kill. 

Cracking at blast of nuclear holocaust fear 
laughing skull of Hamlet twirls over land 
of free men enslaved by desire for wealth 
scattering seeds of apples on parking lots 
that crack thin veneer of our civilization 
to envelop all we accomplished in roots 
of blind nature that swallows huge cities 
in jungles of twittering birds and sad hymns. 

Following Blake as he climbs Mount Zion 
laughing skull of Hamlet bears pure water 
of Melusine well to hands of King Oberon 
who prances on Stonehenge under clouds 
of thunder chanting spells to transform men 
into wolves who howl twirling wizard staffs 
fighting war for truth against corporate vampires. 

Tumbling in fierce wind over nameless heath 
laughing skull of Hamlet clatters on stones 
at feet of Lear who clutches limp corpse 
of Ophelia howling who dares murder girls 
because Goddess of Creation lives beyond 
control of men with hands clutching at dirt 
as we beg for rain to water parched crops. 

Shining polished in cathedral of television 
laughing skull of Hamlet watches huge drama 
of human life swirling without code director 
because Shakespeare rides Lion of Athena 
shaking spear in hands of Edward de Vere 
who guards Fairie Queene from blind assassins 
for she rides without crown on road to heaven 
where she will reign as Ishtar in White House.