Ennui Of Word Punks

Ennui Of Word Punks
© Surazeus
2025 04 25

If the rotting corpse of myopic clouds 
eats rotten grain and rusty screws with zest, 
white horses may attach clocks to gateways 
when spiders call their comrades to take arms 
against aggressive ennui of word punks 
who stagger drunk in dream-polluted smog. 

After wandering the Earth for six thousand years 
on separate roads of frantic destiny, 
Adam and Eve meet again in the garden 
that has turned into the desert of fear 
where skulls of gods with television eyes 
recount the endless wars mankind has fought. 

Kissing with ardent lust of ocean waves 
that shatter ancient cliffs of dynasties, 
Adam and Eve gaze at each other long 
with aching sadness of heartless surprise, 
then sit together under the dead tree 
that once provided Man with fruits of wisdom. 

Eating mushrooms ravens bring them from caves, 
Adam and Eve lounge in the Vatican 
to share the stories of their endless journey, 
how he went west and she went east to circle 
our spinning sphere and build enormous empires 
which they rule as immortal vampire gods. 

Reaching out her hand with anguished respect, 
Eve watches the curious hummingbird 
explore arcane secrets of the white orchid 
from which swirl faceless ghosts on frantic wings 
of iridescent anger to seek truth 
exploding from the radio of mad seers. 

Wind blows her long hair tangled in her mask 
as Eve walks winding country road of bitterness 
that shimmers silver with repressive pain 
while huddling in long coat against cold rain 
as spray from the passing car of bleak fate 
drenches her soul that becomes shrieking crows. 

Bringing loaded gun hidden in his jacket, 
Adam shuffles into college classroom 
to teach world literature to business majors, 
analyzing the folk songs of Bob Dylan 
within the framework of social poetics 
in satires of Persius and Juvenal. 

Government agents kick down classroom door 
and drag Adam away in steel handcuffs, 
then lock him in the concentration camp 
hidden in jungle of El Salvador 
where he preaches gospel of poetry 
in sacred scripture of Octavio Paz.