Invent Fractured Identities

Invent Fractured Identities
© Surazeus
2026 02 03

I telephone absent friends who are dead 
because eyeless birds are answering machines 
whose eyes of wisdom set the world ablaze 
though I ardently desire to transform 
beyond definition of the sad clown 
who wants to make people laugh as they cry. 

My memories flock across the burning sky 
as ravens searching for the Promised Land 
which I design with perfidy of faith 
through penchant for supple tonalities 
I share with blood-stained angels who detest 
men who abuse people with selfish greed. 

Stymied by corruption of sterile greed, 
my quest to free the world from cage of hope 
persists against iniquities of bombs 
which I encode with riddles of respect 
in constitution of progressive pride 
through checks and balances of honesty. 

Determined to settle colonial scores 
through dispensation of the frightened clerk, 
I sharpen schizophrenic knife of truth 
between discourse of brave equality 
and double-talk of arbitrary power 
based on practice of plundering pure prayers. 

I constantly question the lyric I 
through careful ridicule of structured cost 
by undermining pride of calm concern 
based on writhing analysis of truth 
that shimmers with ethereal travesty 
since I invent fractured identities. 

Amused they crucify the robot clown, 
I host peace conference of global fate 
on holy island of the prison camp 
where bankers play chess with peasants and fools 
when they negotiate fraught settlement 
between opposing gangs of hungry thieves. 

King of the most reviled pariah state, 
I give nicknames to everyone I meet 
when I convince them unicorns are real 
as vibrant shadows of our bleeding hearts 
who steal light of our complex legacy 
by selling cynical doubts to believers. 

Reptilian tears of biographic myth 
reveal entitled right to eat ripe fruit 
that falls from twisted limbs of power poles 
from which hang voiceless lines for telephones 
because we dream of worthless paradise 
while climbing hills in seasons out of time.