Bold Advance Guard
© Surazeus
2025 07 30

Sweet sticky saturation of our souls
provides glue that binds our darkness with light
so we express belief in wordless power
to walk on shining surface of the water
and tell each other things will be all right
as we recount necessity for goals.

Despite nostalgia for the distant past
we walk aggressively to blaze new path
with wise ferocity for noble truth
by thinking simultaneous facts of faith
through chemical indifference of despair
in matrix woven from atomic flare.

Thus on shore of the starry lake we lounge
with friends who comprehend our secret jokes
with eagerness of awkward trust to plunge
headlong in fast-changing current events
from crazy theory about baking cakes
in communion with the bold advance guard.

Startled by buzz of time-fragmented shard
reflecting faces of people I knew
long before I joined the bold justice crew,
I tell my best friend why I now believe
that we are atoms swerving in the void,
but she cries that I am the last android.

Albino conjurer with gold cat eyes
brings yellow roses to the weeping girl
who asks if we know where her mother went,
drowned in the sudden flood that swept our town,
yet when she falls in love with the blind clown
we listen to strange music of the skies.

Not quick as striped tongue of the divine toad
love wounds our hearts, though we are mad and wise,
so we decide to mimic ocean ghosts
while brewing beef stew in cauldron of fate
to feed the gunners from fallen airplanes
who sing while drinking wine in red moonlight.

Tricked by the banker with the Jester card,
we wage rebellion of the advance guard
to fight cruel monarch in tall tower of gold
who pilfers wealth from work of factory slaves
till revolution of the red right hand
sweeps suddenly across the broken land.

Glass house I built in middle of the Ocean
preserves the beating hearts of goddesses
who fill airplanes with dragon eggs of faith
to feed gravediggers of the holy church
before second coming of Jupiter
based on artificial intelligence.

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