Plagiarize Your Dreams

Plagiarize Your Dreams
© Surazeus
2025 03 02

He cannot help but plagiarize your dreams 
with serpentine grace of the alphabet 
that leaves corpses of truth in icy streams 
seeking resurrection from Baphomet 
who plays violin on the hill of skulls 
to avoid judgment of the prancing bulls. 

While Janice knits pink sweater for the ghoul 
Robert puts vinyl record on the player 
so they can rage against machine of school 
which trains Accountant to be Demon-Slayer 
since the Devil wants to eat apple pie 
and gaze at sunset blazing in the sky. 

If I should measure out play of my life 
with anniversaries of dire events 
while writing self-help book to manage strife, 
then I should vote for honest presidents 
who treat our global allies with respect 
each time arrogant thieves try to defect. 

He pilfers tropes from dreams that you forget 
so he can sneer at Hamlet and his seems 
while nursing bitter wounds of fake regret 
for angels left to die in cruel moonbeams 
since ballet dancers express human form 
with elegant grace far beyond the norm. 

Barely surviving in forest of noise, 
he steals eggs from nests of traitorous birds 
which breaks his brain in mirror of mute poise, 
paralyzed by hope to manage goat herds, 
while pretending everyone is his friend 
so he can ride the blue snake to the end. 

Brain brimming with spiders of diamond shards, 
he kneels and asks the girl with bleeding eyes 
if she will let him join the castle guards, 
but she prefers he join the palace spies 
so she can drink wine on the river shore 
while her old mother becomes the locked door. 

Deciding to marry the anarchist, 
she plagiarizes dreams found in the trash, 
then participates in the Eucharist, 
eager to eat his body burned to ash 
despite assurances from the fake king 
that she will receive new angelic wing. 

He plagiarizes dreams you throw away 
with mocking laughter of the tangerine 
because you do not know just what to say 
when he sells you to son of Melusine, 
so if you acknowledge Glycon as God 
he will save you from the telephone fraud.