Death Of The Garbage Man

Death Of The Garbage Man
© Surazeus
2023 10 22

Though rain still falls on hills of Zathamar 
with haughty unconcern for blooming signs, 
night clear as owl eyes ever watching moons, 
contemptuous of our pride for who we are, 
we must refuse to pay our traffic fines, 
indignant for how violins warp tunes. 

Still waters that run deep conceal false dreams 
dead angels sell to tourists on the beach 
at sunset screaming silently for faith, 
yet horses grazing by forgotten streams 
refuse to accept lessons devils teach 
for how to contact brain of the star wraith. 

Forth unto misty woods of Avalon 
no wingless angel, stuck on twisted tracks, 
remembers how to pay the piper gold 
forged from stolen Byzantine coins at dawn 
to cover evidence of moral cracks 
that disassemble mirrors never sold. 

For every journalist murdered in war 
another child is born in Bethlehem 
to carry on tradition of their tribe 
though Jesus wants to run the grocery store 
instead of wearing divine diadem, 
yet falls in love with daughter of the scribe. 

Reluctant to play chess with Death in Hell, 
awake in darkness visible through words 
invented by the faceless ghost we fear, 
I search for Melusine by drought-dried well 
for help to translate poetry of birds 
in songs now mimicked by conceptual gears. 

While bombs destroy Museum of Weird Art 
young children play war in the city park 
in games they convert into government 
through which they control fate with a star chart 
which beams psychotic pulse from divine quark 
to honor the dead with new monument. 

Through marriage of like minds we rule the Earth 
by sitting quietly on judgment throne 
to guide humanity in building peace 
based on standard value each soul is worth 
as sales recorded on dinosaur bone 
in scenes displayed on the lost altarpiece. 

With books of epic poems stuffed in my bag 
I walk confusing maze of Athens town 
in search for tomb of the last vampire clan, 
then enter Jerusalem on white stag 
at crowning of reluctant emperor clown 
who covers up death of the garbage man.