Join The Justice Squad

Join The Justice Squad
© Surazeus
2024 03 11

She mails letters from Desolation Row 
so I can know what happens to the ghosts 
who struggle every day to play the show 
with spirit-twisting passion of proud boasts, 
yet I refuse to say where I have been, 
still hoping to explain what I have seen. 

She photographs torn bodies of the dead 
half buried in rubble of bombed-out homes 
so I can build tombs for them in my head 
while recording their tales in dusty tomes 
that groan unread in dim library halls 
as their children play chase in waterfalls. 

She visits trailer-home parks outside town 
to document bitter lives of the poor 
who prefer the preacher become their clown 
to make them laugh that they can earn no more, 
unable to work sick in factories 
because they had to sell their psychic keys. 

She films the homeless singer by the bank 
who sings about the Calculator Man 
who bravely faced down the tyranny tank 
in world revolution that angels ban 
by burning down Statue of Liberty 
whose Book of Deeds crumbles into the sea. 

She photoshops her magazine face 
in picture with her children in her arms 
to prove she will always be Princess Grace 
fit to rule the kingdom of failing farms, 
till Humpty Dumpty tumbles off the throne 
at second coming of the three-eyed crone. 

She stands before the academic crowd 
to talk about Power of Poetry 
sanctioned by the Faceless God in the cloud 
whose perfect world includes dire poverty 
for crippled children orphaned by the king 
who claims all land as his with Magic Ring. 

She gathers flowers on the river shore 
to sing with joy that heals her broken heart 
while Hamlet sells food in the grocery store, 
hoping to evade fate of his star chart, 
till his father falls from Tower of Truth, 
which leaves him crowned as new messiah sleuth. 

She dances with the Jester by her grave 
after casting off strict religious chains, 
then forges Excalibur in the cave, 
used as propeller for the new airplane 
she flies above shining clouds to find God, 
but returns home to join the Justice Squad.