Indifferent Boy Forever
© Surazeus
2018 08 29
Wishing to understand the crazy world,
he plucks out his left eye with scorpion tail
to toss it whistling down the wishing well,
then wanders streets of Seattle all day,
searching for the same old spot to play
never-ending ballads of superheroes
who rescue women from tall Tower of Gold
before lightning strikes to destroy his pride.
Angry at the corrupt state of affairs,
mad social justice warrior wields computer
to join bold revolution of our age,
dismantling structures of white privilege
and toppling colonial empire of wealth
in roaring mob of peasants with pitchforks
who storm the gates of Heaven at midnight
to kill the Beast who keeps Beauty enslaved.
When Beauty, intellectual who loves books,
protects the brute Beast from the angry mob,
to support his elite social position,
maintaining hegemony of his class,
the social justice warrior wanders lost,
and hitchhikes far from sea to shining sea
on new sacred quest for the Holy Grail
till he discovers secret of rebirth.
Lying dejected on white sand of the beach
where ocean waves consume his naked soul,
our Superhero overcomes himself,
transforming from Fool to the Overman
as he dances on fragile Bridge of Hopes
over bottomless Abyss of Optimism
to morph from the Ape to the Superman
who now calls himself the Indifferent Boy.
Indifferent Boy wanders homeless town to town,
our World Messiah disguised as the clown
who performs ballads of heroic deeds
for people walking somewhere else to work,
blind Homer chanting epic tale of life
about the Angry Man who destroys cities,
and the Clever Man who regains his home,
though no one hears him above engine noise.
Approaching flat-top Pyramid of Power
where giant Crystal Eye sees all events,
Indifferent Boy climbs stairs of social class
and steps in Temple of Authority
where God the Tribal Leader reigns forever
while sitting on enormous throne of books,
and commissions Blind Poet to compose
elegy about the Child in the Cage.
Sitting on white steps of the Supreme Court,
meditating as Buddha in deep trance,
Indifferent Boy watches world politics
play as reality show on television
where contestants vie to play role of God
who rules Earth with scepter of nuclear missiles,
Shiva dancing on cracked skull of Mankind,
while Lady Liberty weeps in burned hands.
Picking shards of the old Christian World View,
from rose window of Selfless Savior King,
Indifferent Boy assembles paradigm
from fragments of Literary Tradition
to rebuild Temple of Philosophy
that honors Lucretius, Hamlet of Rome,
as Noble Prophet of Eternal Truth
that we are Atoms swirling through the Void.
Indifferent Boy forever wanders Earth,
chanting satiric prophecies of truth,
presenting heroic actions of thinkers
who attend their quest for the Holy Grail
to escape the power that can kill us all
while praying to power that makes us feel alive
so we gather by the River of Stars
to sing as Planet Earth spins through the Void.
© Surazeus
2018 08 29
Wishing to understand the crazy world,
he plucks out his left eye with scorpion tail
to toss it whistling down the wishing well,
then wanders streets of Seattle all day,
searching for the same old spot to play
never-ending ballads of superheroes
who rescue women from tall Tower of Gold
before lightning strikes to destroy his pride.
Angry at the corrupt state of affairs,
mad social justice warrior wields computer
to join bold revolution of our age,
dismantling structures of white privilege
and toppling colonial empire of wealth
in roaring mob of peasants with pitchforks
who storm the gates of Heaven at midnight
to kill the Beast who keeps Beauty enslaved.
When Beauty, intellectual who loves books,
protects the brute Beast from the angry mob,
to support his elite social position,
maintaining hegemony of his class,
the social justice warrior wanders lost,
and hitchhikes far from sea to shining sea
on new sacred quest for the Holy Grail
till he discovers secret of rebirth.
Lying dejected on white sand of the beach
where ocean waves consume his naked soul,
our Superhero overcomes himself,
transforming from Fool to the Overman
as he dances on fragile Bridge of Hopes
over bottomless Abyss of Optimism
to morph from the Ape to the Superman
who now calls himself the Indifferent Boy.
Indifferent Boy wanders homeless town to town,
our World Messiah disguised as the clown
who performs ballads of heroic deeds
for people walking somewhere else to work,
blind Homer chanting epic tale of life
about the Angry Man who destroys cities,
and the Clever Man who regains his home,
though no one hears him above engine noise.
Approaching flat-top Pyramid of Power
where giant Crystal Eye sees all events,
Indifferent Boy climbs stairs of social class
and steps in Temple of Authority
where God the Tribal Leader reigns forever
while sitting on enormous throne of books,
and commissions Blind Poet to compose
elegy about the Child in the Cage.
Sitting on white steps of the Supreme Court,
meditating as Buddha in deep trance,
Indifferent Boy watches world politics
play as reality show on television
where contestants vie to play role of God
who rules Earth with scepter of nuclear missiles,
Shiva dancing on cracked skull of Mankind,
while Lady Liberty weeps in burned hands.
Picking shards of the old Christian World View,
from rose window of Selfless Savior King,
Indifferent Boy assembles paradigm
from fragments of Literary Tradition
to rebuild Temple of Philosophy
that honors Lucretius, Hamlet of Rome,
as Noble Prophet of Eternal Truth
that we are Atoms swirling through the Void.
Indifferent Boy forever wanders Earth,
chanting satiric prophecies of truth,
presenting heroic actions of thinkers
who attend their quest for the Holy Grail
to escape the power that can kill us all
while praying to power that makes us feel alive
so we gather by the River of Stars
to sing as Planet Earth spins through the Void.
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