Speak With Brave Voice
© Surazeus
2026 01 23

Honest arrogance of the special fool
fools everyone to think they are more wise
than brave horse that leaps barbed-wire fence at dawn
to race swift train of new technology
where artificial intelligence dreams
electric cows that give conceptual milk.

I would rather consume chocolate bars
after I encounter ghouls of despair
that suck all happiness from my sponge brain
soaked with divine oil of transcendent truths
that children buy at the penny arcade
where King Chuckles wears plastic crown of power.

Turning away from modernist despair
to avoid snark of juvenile satire,
I seek strange beauty of the mountain lake
that shimmers bright as Mirror of God Mind
which reflects how humans perceive themselves
as wingless angels on heavenly Earth.

When cursing agents of the government,
who break open doors of our private homes
without warrant that proves committed crimes,
I overhear myself speak with brave voice
of Jesus when he drove from temple hall
money-changers who cheat people with scams.

Now I would rather sing Horatian odes
praising athletes at the Olympic Games
where humans test endurance with lithe skill
in harmony with slippery ice of change
as we evolve beyond our present state
to overcome our weaknesses with verve.

How gracefully she swirls on gleaming ice
with calm elegance of the broad-winged swan
while her brother, who wears black suit of fear
and mask that covers his face, grips huge gun
to arrest people on their way to work
and locks them in vast prison camp of greed.

Transforming from republic to empire,
like Rome during civil wars for control
between gangs of thieves who claim heritage
of Hercules the Mighty Conqueror,
America strives to fulfill oracle
which Onatah proclaimed in field of corn.

When brutal ice storm freezes Dixieland
under black boots of Jack Frost and his gang,
Minerva will rise from woods of the south
to wave our blood-stained flag of Liberty
while Apollo plays electric guitar
in holy war to save democracy.

surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/01/…

Orpheus leads people of America in demonstrations opposed to fascist tyranny of King Midas who declares himself Emperor of Everywhere.

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism