Angel-Headed Hipster

Angel-Headed Hipster
© Surazeus
2024 05 12

Deconstructing myths of our world religions, 
I see how the worst minds of every tribe 
who ever lived in every generation 
play power games to control human minds 
trapped in swirling vortex of social change 
that burns trace of their souls in characters. 

Strict force of their controlling energy 
sparks fierce rebellion for the cause of freedom 
from the best minds of every generation, 
forged by soul-twisting heat of poverty, 
who rise through revolution of despair 
to overthrow cruel Titans of state power. 

Bold warriors dramatized in ancient epics, 
who gained power by killing everyone 
who dared oppose their will to forge their fate, 
were mortal men who crowned themselves as gods, 
commanding bards in crowded feasting halls 
to proclaim them heroes whom men should worship. 

Because the best killers in every age 
command historians to praise their good deeds, 
sad stories of the losers are forgotten 
as roads are paved to cover up their graves, 
and banks are erected on ruined temples 
where no Jesus could drive the bankers out. 

Yet still will Allen Ginsberg as Huck Finn 
rebel against vast military state, 
clowning around on literary stage 
to mock the wealthy and the powerful, 
then praise the starving hysterical seer 
who howls against Money Moloch of fame. 

Terrified of mad Sea Mother of Night, 
who writhes in agony of painful rage 
against soul-wrenching chemicals of hope, 
the satyr clown who wears clay Buddha mask 
flees west across the waste land of despair 
to sing of beauty by the western sea. 

Snatching sling of rebellion David lost, 
the angel-headed hipster of nowhere Zen 
howls and hurls nuclear stone of Sisyphus 
at soul-trapping head of Ozymandias 
to shatter golden calf with spear of truth 
while the whole cosmos vibrates at his feet. 

With every cycle in the rise of empires, 
when another Goliath grasps for power, 
another David, as the Hidden Dragon, 
will rise from crowd of humble citizens 
to grasp the Jovian thunderbolt of truth 
and manage progress of productive peace.