Billions Of Laughing Ghosts

Billions Of Laughing Ghosts
© Surazeus
2025 01 14

While standing at the bus stop, Mary sighs 
and sings, "It is the evening of the day, 
so I will sit and watch the children play," 
but stops and stares at the gray cloudy skies 
where angels must be singing as they strum 
golden harps while waiting for Kingdom Come. 

Large black pickup truck with loud engine growl, 
sporting bold red sticker on silver stripe 
that spells "Make America Great Again", 
stops before young woman in flower dress, 
and the bearded man wearing red cap shouts, 
"Come live with me and be my loving wife!" 

Smiling demurely with innocent eyes, 
Mary pulls gun and points it at his head, 
then sweetly purrs, "I would rather be dead," 
so he guns the engine and speeds away, 
and she chuckles amused at look of shock 
that frazzles his stale masculinity. 

Riding the Number Zero bus to Hell, 
winding around each level of despair 
where Virgil lead Dante on quest for truth, 
Mary ponders the weird meaning of life 
that each conscious creature alive on Earth 
must design from random experiences. 

Arriving at Grand Temple of the Damned, 
Mary enters hall to sit at her desk 
where she records the deeds that men perform 
to calculate their balance of account 
between good and evil from their intent 
that renders judgment on their destiny. 

Reviewing new case of the tyrant thief 
who regains power as the president, 
elected by the people of the land 
to expand empire control of their greed, 
Mary checks how much evil he has done, 
then marks verdict for when his time will come. 

Returning home on Number Zero bus, 
that passes Parnassus and Helicon, 
Mary composes haunting tune she hums 
that renders spell for how all tyrants fall, 
then eats pizza she ordered yesterday 
and watches drama "Alchemy of Souls". 

Falling asleep on the couch before dawn, 
Mary hears not evacuation order, 
so she wakes as wild fire consumes her home 
and leaves her standing in ashes of time 
to laugh at cruel apocalypse of doom, 
surrounded by billions of laughing ghosts.