Game Arcade Of America

Game Arcade Of America
© Surazeus
2024 11 29

If book on the table in dreary glade 
considers how the radio ghost works, 
the red-winged blackbird on the broken door 
might find the wolf girl on the river shore 
and show her where the library boy lurks, 
face half hidden in the innocent shade. 

When the red-winged blackbird returns from Hell, 
she hops on tattered pages of the book 
to calculate how long the city grows 
prosperous because of wild vaudeville shows 
where the princess falls in love with the crook 
who hides her memories in the rune-phased well. 

Ignoring sweet temptations of the flesh, 
I try to meditate under the tree 
that curls roots around the nuclear bomb 
while the wolf girl sings the reverent psalm 
in honor of our lost democracy 
purchased by the blind businessman with cash. 

Eternal return in cycle of change 
decrees that the Devil will rise again 
every eighty years to challenge World God 
who falls defeated with his justice squad 
over right to control the minds of men, 
which nobody else seems to think is strange. 

Shouting outside the tear-streaked window pane, 
she tries to explain to the startled ghost 
that he is the king who was never born 
because his mother is still picking corn 
and his father repairs winds of the coast 
while I play guitar in the winter rain. 

My son wants to refurbish empty church 
with statues of all famous scientists 
whose riddles help save mankind from disease, 
but I just want to sit in the cool breeze 
so I can trust reports of journalists 
whose truth is based on objective research. 

Assigned to design methodology 
we can use to implement global peace, 
wolf girl marries library boy at dawn 
so no one can play with him as their pawn 
till the Devil signs one-hundred-year lease 
to cleanse Notre Dame of theology. 

My secret book of code in dreary glade 
releases demons of change in the world 
who crush all institutions of state power 
to centralize government in one tower 
where Queen Rapunzel and the cosmic herald 
turn America into a game arcade.