King Of Worthless Things

King Of Worthless Things
© Surazeus
2025 04 02

Because he plays the king of worthless things, 
robins leave torn pages from holy books 
on the metal table in the back yard 
where the mango queen takes selfies with Death 
to show her followers around the world 
that she values every person on Earth. 

Because the Earth is spinning in his head, 
he gives the dead voices they never had 
when they were struggling each day to survive 
by assembling puzzles of castle towers 
on the asphalt parking lot of the mall 
where angels keep falling on the tar roof. 

Because the sky disrespects him with jokes 
about his strength and courage to fight back, 
he races with the football down the field 
to imitate the hunter with the pig 
that he steals from the village by the lake, 
and wins through goalposts of his village gate. 

Because he loves the woman on the horse, 
he gathers apples in his two-wheeled cart 
and pushes it along the sparkling stream 
to sell them at the crowded market place 
for copper coins that he can use to buy 
new brass cauldron for his wife to cook stew. 

Because he seeks to know the origin 
of commerce basic to civilized life, 
he digs chunks of minerals from the hill cave 
and sells them to the man on the brick hill 
who laughs that his dirt holds nothing worthwhile, 
so he lies hungry on the temple steps. 

Because he wants to buy the fast sports car, 
he sits all day in the small cubicle 
and enters numbers on the spreadsheet file 
to calculate progress from the stone age 
that man has gained the past five thousand years, 
then drinks beer in the bar to watch football. 

Because he uses dangerous formulas 
based on mathematics of divine fate 
to build the piston engine of the greed, 
he wears the polished mask of Daedalus 
on Halloween to trick Fortune and Death 
in bargain with the Devil to be rich. 

Because he steals the crown of thorns from Christ 
in vain attempt to avoid judgment day, 
he tries to deny in the court of fate 
that he is still the king of worthless things 
though he keeps trying to sell fake angel wings 
as Orpheus takes him to his cage in Hell.