Glamorous Country Of Love

Glamorous Country Of Love
© Surazeus
2024 10 09

Embossed with silvery images of wings, 
my soul grows in gloom of the theater, 
inspired by story of the anti-hero 
to explore the glamorous country of love 
where children of the windy hills rebel 
against their parents in the tower of glass. 

Grown old and half-blind as the vampire bat, 
I sit in front of my computer screen 
that evolved from my television set 
to watch long epic history of the world 
recorded in movies by camera bards 
while grifters fight over who rules the Earth. 

Yet I strut down the busy avenue 
past construction workers and cafe cooks 
to my art studio on the seventh floor 
of the abandoned clothing factory 
where I splatter paint on large canvases 
to sell for thousands in art galleries. 

Another jetplane screams across the sky 
from Manhattan to London in eight hours, 
eastward across the wild Atlantic main 
where my ancestors sailed west in wood ships 
to escape tyranny of the mad king 
whose ghost now haunts streets of America. 

When Lady Lazarus rises from the dead 
from kiss of Prince Charming in misty woods, 
assembled by blind Doctor Frankenstein 
as bride for Saint George, grand Slayer of Worms, 
she swirls her long red hair as angel wings 
and eats my spirit with her honeyed lips. 

Pink tulips blossom from her lonely grave 
where witches gather every full-moon night 
to open books releasing butterflies 
which form ghostly shadow of Ariel 
when she appears in beams of silver light 
to bless our hearts with anguish of true love. 

So crowds of people all across the land 
gather to cheer when Godiva arrives 
on white unicorn of the public will 
to drive the dictator from the White House 
and reign with justice in the Holy Land, 
protecting Rapunzel from lecherous Mars. 

Soft cries of children from their rubbled homes 
resemble sad song of the nightingale 
that echoes in date groves of Palestine 
before the second coming of the Lord 
who steals fake crowns from dictators and clowns 
which he displays in Museum of Faith.