Fake Words On The Ground

Fake Words On The Ground
© Surazeus
2026 05 23

Alert to shadow of death in tall trees, 
Celestine scatters fake words on the ground 
and pries thorns of happiness from her heart, 
then browses dresses in the chic boutique 
to purchase trend of upscale edginess 
tailored for the refined lady of faith. 

Exclusive demon lurking in tall grass 
decides to customize costume she wears 
with meticulous concern for cracked eyes, 
so Celestine dons brown jacket at dawn 
and sips coffee by the Venice canal 
where empty gondolas float in gold mist. 

Stopping in the middle of the glass bridge 
that spans the silent river of despair, 
Celestine wonders where she has come from 
and where she will go before the sun blinks 
with stunning insight of sorrow defied, 
or if she should entertain hope of death. 

With careful lines of elegant intent, 
Celestine divides fragments of lost time 
to measure wasted hours of earnest hope 
framed by parables of social respect 
in portraits that present uncanny scenes 
where nobody seems to know what they want. 

Staring at the clock in trunk of the oak, 
Celestine plans routine of lettered play, 
shattered by contempt for logical tricks, 
to puzzle formulas of bitter love, 
which proves her comfort zone is much too small 
to protect her heart from blind parasites. 

Now circumspect about her future path, 
Celestine neglects to seek twisted code, 
starved for new opportunities to tame 
fierce appetite for solving data traps 
through lurid analysis time presents 
as theories that explain why all brains die. 

If light hurts her eyes with bearable truth, 
Celestine waits by boulder of lost names 
for red raven to bring ribbon of ruth 
with furtive urgency of social power, 
designed to replicate our hearts of clay 
which guardian angels fold into false masks. 

Abated susurration of dead brains 
amplifies individual spells of faith 
that drip from wounded mouths of cautious clones 
despite knowledge that wave frequencies change 
relative to observer wearing mask 
with telescope embedded in her brain.