Angels In Exploding Caves

Angels In Exploding Caves
© Surazeus
2024 11 23

Heart-mending beauty of the world on fire 
tricks me into singing with the mute choir 
holy hymns that harmonize with machines 
consistent with the old man counting beans 
to build great empire on the backs of slaves 
who dance with angels in exploding caves. 

Because America is beautiful 
I attend math classes in empty school 
so when I play chess with Death on the beach 
I will not be the economic leech 
the businessman accuses me of being 
till I sell him the plastic devil wing. 

Aesthetic beauty in each work of art 
is calculated through the psychic chart 
based on ripe banana taped to the wall 
as warning that the stock market will fall 
with each transaction logged in the dream book 
if diners praise the legendary cook. 

Regret for many foolish things I did 
frees me from obligations to El Cid 
for helping his crusade to conquer hate 
that fools bankers to think they outwit fate 
when they pay insurance for shipping boats 
since their grandfathers herded mountain goats. 

Though America may collapse from greed 
social rebirth is contained in the seed, 
yet still I laugh at how conservatives 
got played by sly Pluto whose trick deceives 
their minds in thinking Midas the Thief 
will save their empire from religious grief. 

I stroll streets of Athens in autumn wind 
to comprehend how mind-space makes light bend 
through curving continuum of my brain 
that always plots how to increase my gain 
so I control the land with bloody sword 
or hang out on the beach when I am bored. 

When Thespis stands on stage of social truth 
he wears gaudy mask of messiah sleuth 
to play Dionysus in game of thrones 
through revolution of the rolling stones 
that crushes institutions of our state 
by smashing open the paradise gate. 

Though America falls in civil war 
we will rebuild the hyperdrive warp core 
to spread democracy around the world 
so tyrants cower before cosmic herald 
resurrected as the Many-Faced God 
who fights for freedom with the Justice Squad.