Delivery Of The Keys

Delivery Of The Keys
© Surazeus
2025 08 31

Whoever asks the angel for her name 
will vanish in wind of meaningless words 
by teleporting to the Promised Land 
that turns out to be the galactic zoo 
where happy children are brainwashed in school 
to worship face of the arrogant fool. 

Somebody keeps knocking on the back door 
so Michael stumbles over divine spear, 
but no one is standing on the back porch, 
so he drinks beer and watches football game 
between Angels and Devils for thought control 
when God and Satan gamble for our lives. 

Orpheus fills out job application forms 
at every busy car factory in town, 
but no one wants to hire the psychopomp 
who, they fear, would form strong union of workers 
to oppose unfair business practices 
because they earn low wages for long hours. 

When Michael, racing his pickup too fast, 
knocks over motorbike Orpheus drives, 
they fistfight outside the locked Baptist church, 
then eat hamburgers at the country bar, 
yet both fall in love with the young blonde girl 
who plays guitar and sings of broken hearts. 

Venus goes home with the archangel Michael 
and gasps with pleasure when he spreads his wings 
that shimmer silver as wings of the swan 
just as the clock in the oak strikes thirteen 
to signal coming of the serpent princess 
born nine months later from the queen of love. 

While wandering in vast maze of city streets 
Orpheus sneaks in library of books 
where he sees Aurora with long red hair 
reading books about the history of art 
so they talk about linear perspective 
devised by wise Filippo Brunelleschi. 

Invited by the savior of the world 
to attend the delivery of the keys, 
Orpheus waits on the plaza at dawn 
to understand where the sun goes at night, 
but decides that angels do not exist 
though Michael has become his new best friend. 

Piloting the passenger jet in Heaven, 
Michael explains over the intercom 
that they are passing over Rocky Mountains 
where nymphs and satyrs dance in alpine meadows 
till they are arrested by black-masked agents 
and deported back to Arcadia.