Ennui Of The Crocodile

Ennui Of The Crocodile
© Surazeus
2025 01 26

Aching with ennui of the crocodile, 
detached from stark lessons of history, 
Faustus draws sigil in the parking lot 
to summon Zepar from cavern of hell, 
but Zaleos appears in flash of light 
to make him love Titus Andronicus. 

Sending Zaleos to the grocery store 
to buy six pack of beer and cigarettes, 
Faustus flips channels on the television 
that opens portal into Naraka 
which allows thousands of monster-faced demons 
to escape and form motorcycle gangs. 

Deep inside roar of cars on the highway 
just outside Dallas on the Texas plain, 
strange haunting music curls up from the sea 
to penetrate his heart with ache for love, 
so Faustus opens sliding door to gaze 
astonished at the blaze of flashing lights. 

Enormous saucer-shaped starship floats low 
above tops of oak trees by the highway, 
and from bright pulsing beam he sees descend 
Lan Caihe, graceful woman with long hair 
who plays enchanting melody of hope 
on white jade flute carved from mountain of ghosts. 

Moon-black eyes beam micro-rays of starlight 
that spray purple haze in his dreamless brain 
so Faustus embraces delicate girl 
whose silky hanfu gown envelops him 
in fluttering swirls of sweet hypnotic hope 
as she carries him up into her ship. 

When Zaleos returns with beer and pizza, 
he sees fairy goddess with diamond eyes 
abduct his master in crystal starship, 
so he transforms into enormous dragon 
and roars to rescue him, but she plays flute 
that traps his spirit in dilithium crystal. 

Zooming starship from Earth to outers pace, 
Lan Caihe lands on planet Jupiter 
where she leads Faustus gently by the hand 
to ride turtle-shell boat on honey river 
past tangerine trees on marmalade hills 
where they make love by the fountain of ghosts. 

Waking bleary-eyed in apartment room, 
Faustus opens curtains to blink in sunlight, 
then sits on the bed to smoke cigarette 
while the Chinese girl he met at the bar 
hugs his waist and smiles, "Now that we are married, 
you can work at the bank my father owns."