Highway Six Six Six

Highway Six Six Six
© Surazeus
2025 11 07

If the second mother even returns 
from gathering flowers by the highway 
that bloom from the corpse of the seventh son, 
she might find the last telephone on Earth 
on the broken desk in the empty room 
where the ram goes to escape sacrifice. 

After the minister of finance faints 
from loyal despair of the star-blind seer, 
the leprous king who wears the golden mask 
might stare in shock at Sibyl in her cage 
whose riddles prophesy his sudden fall 
from heart-twisting scream of the butterfly. 

Because ten thousand airplanes in the sky 
bounce lost in swirling fog of arrogance 
that billows from huge factories of greed, 
three angels with last message for mankind 
might hang out in the highway bar instead 
and throw beer bottles at Phoebus on stage. 

Still strutting out on Highway Six Six Six 
after defeating Anubis at chess, 
Orpheus might remember where he left 
the broken lyre of Mercury he stole 
which I have hidden underneath my bed 
to prevent the thirteenth apocalypse. 

Enchanted by the heart-reviving hex 
Minerva casts on me with wicked words 
that cause apple trees to writhe in my shape, 
I might ride my white horse of innocence 
to fight four horseman of holy crusades 
who try to burn my castle to the ground. 

Though primal cause of creation flares forth 
from dreamless God-Eye of the universe 
that formulates organic life on globes, 
Apollo teaches children how to count 
with numbers al-Khwarizmi diagrammed 
to imitate snakes in the Tree of Life. 

Forever favored by the Tree of Knowledge, 
registered in Book of Nature by Death, 
I might climb highest mountain in the world 
to eat dream monster crawling in my heart 
so I can find the Diamond Eye of Fate 
that gleams on Tower of Babel at dawn. 

Startled by gold shadow of Azrael 
that flickers on wall of my living room, 
I might call angels driving without hands 
who throw violins at the purple sky 
that drips blood of bells on our fractured skulls 
while we drive home on Highway Six Six Six.