Profound Indifference

Profound Indifference
© Surazeus
2022 12 10

Profound indifference of the moral law, 
devised by men to control other bodies, 
to ache of organic souls to survive 
programs fate-system of the social state 
that functions to manage how we behave 
in our global food-production machine. 

Minerva plucks apples from the old tree 
to fill nine baskets in the two-wheeled cart 
then hauls it along the narrow dirt road 
to the crowded market on the lake shore 
where women give her gold coins for her fruit, 
then she sleeps in her cart beside the church. 

Phoebus stumbles drunk to the fountain pool 
where he stares at his face in moonlit water 
and weeps with sorrow for death of his father 
then falls asleep beside the apple cart 
while watching stars swirl in argentine streaks 
that splash his face with teardrops of blind gods. 

When Minerva wakes in shimmer of dawn 
she finds Phoebus sprawled beside her cart 
with stiff hand clutching a small wooden horse, 
so she catches butterfly of his soul 
to mold him into lizard with crow wings 
who whistles while she walks back to her grove.