World Socialist Utopia

World Socialist Utopia
© Surazeus
2024 11 17

After I crawl out of the rabbit hole 
from searching for the graves of long-dead gods 
I walk in blue dusk to the grocery store 
where evening shoppers, hoping to buy faith, 
are careful not to share their eyes with owls 
to read secret messages on glass doors. 

Pausing in back aisle under the fake clock, 
I stare at large can of potato soup 
and wonder what would happen if a bomb 
were to blow holes in television screens, 
but then I smile with assurance of faith 
that I have hid my dreams in unread books. 

Hired by the government to play the role 
of Lucifer exposing greedy frauds, 
I hide every book of forgotten lore 
that dares to reveal name of the Star Wraith 
till I join the internet ghost who howls 
with hungry despair on the money moors. 

I return every year to Plymouth Rock 
where I arrived with freedom-fighting group 
commissioned to build alabaster tomb 
for Jesus who loves to build time machines 
powered by spirit essence of the wraith 
reborn in artsy minds of castle cooks. 

I try to understand this modern age 
where lonely rebels, clutching plastic guns, 
pretend to fight against the government 
while getting their farmer subsidy checks 
to grow wheat on the prairies far from towns, 
while I write fantasy novels in verse. 

For the next revolution to begin 
the people living in home of the brave 
must elect cruel dictator of blind greed 
as their messiah of the nuclear cloud 
who will destroy their rich land of the free 
so we can build new paradise for all. 

When jester of the king prances on stage 
to mock the way their fake messiah runs 
the people stuck in loops of argument 
wear assault-rifle crosses on their necks 
to cheer Headless Horseman at Churchill Downs 
who fails to escape the Trojan-Horse curse. 

Yet the cosmic herald will always win 
right to translate code from the ocean wave 
so everyone works to get what they need 
in world socialist utopia of the proud 
since Odin bears the social justice key 
he stole from Lucifer before the Fall.