Routines Of Their Lives

Routines Of Their Lives
© Surazeus
2022 12 12

Though Icarus climbs to the mountain top 
to ask Tiresias the meaning of life 
he finds the ruined Temple of Apollo 
where Sibylla lounges on tattered couch, 
watching television in cave of dreams 
while eating pizza with Grendel and Thor. 

Regarding wingless angel with contempt, 
Sibylla asks if he brought weed or beer, 
but he lingers by the empty bookshelf 
where skulls of Hamlet and Orpheus grin 
for she sold all their prophecies as songs 
that play as pop hits on the radio. 

Explaining he is son of Jupiter, 
and thus older brother of Lucifer, 
Icarus comments Mars is on the way 
to arrest them for possession of drugs, 
so Grendel and Thor escape out the back 
while Sibylla runs to the kitchen and cries. 

Sitting together at the wobbly table, 
Icarus and Sibylla drink tea 
while she explains how she fell in despair 
when her best friend Aphrodite got sick 
and died from covid over Christmas break, 
so he holds her in his arms as she sighs. 

Passing Moses carving laws on stone tablets 
by eerie gold light of the burning bush, 
Icarus and Sibylla leave the temple 
and walk the signless road of nevermore 
across the waste land of desolate hope 
to find the Holy Grail of Baphomet. 

Arriving at the pearly gates of Heaven, 
Icarus and Sibylla purchase tickets 
but find themselves in Wonderland instead, 
amusement park owned the gold King Midas, 
so they ride roller coasters and carousels, 
then kiss as they boat through tunnel of love. 

Kneeling on dark shore of the River Styx, 
Sibylla clutches the handful of dust, 
and turns back to explain to Icarus 
how they wandered the maze for twenty years, 
but finds the wingless angel of her heart 
hanging crucified on a telephone pole. 

Releasing him from bonds of social rules, 
Sibylla makes sweet love with Icarus 
like Francesca with Paolo in Inferno, 
then draws water from Well of Melusine 
to cook oatmeal and eggs at Hearth of Eve 
where Tiresias smokes and reads morning news. 

Lounging at home on left bank of the Seine, 
Icarus writes folk songs with his guitar 
and Sibylla paints Surrealist art, 
while Tiresias programs the computer 
with artificial intelligence code 
to generate songs and paintings from memes. 

After Sibylla gives birth to twin boys, 
whom Icarus names Hamlet and Orpheus, 
they move to a small town in southern Georgia 
where he works for the county government 
maintaining maps of properties for taxes 
while she works at the mall clothing boutique. 

When Tiresias campaigns for President 
to rule over United States of Earth, 
Icarus works as campaign manager 
and Sibylla writes speeches he delivers, 
but as he shakes hands on Atlanta streets 
Midas assassinates him with his gun. 

Climbing holy mountain of Avalon, 
Icarus and Sibylla visit tomb 
where Tiresias transforms into the snake, 
so they sit under the tree of Irminsul 
and drink wine in remembrance of his name, 
then return home to routines of their lives.