Infinitely-Looping Stair
© Surazeus
2025 04 22

Phoebus builds bridges nobody can cross
from turtle shells and feathers of quaint lies
plucked from honest wings of the albatross
because he wants to send sly language spies
to foreign countries with mission to twist
truth of their world view by the plagiarist.

Free-market societies reduce life
to production and consumption of tales
which illustrate morals of mental strife
to show what success or failure entails
through tragedy of pride blinded by greed
or comedy of love that fulfills need.

Our prophets chanting spells of flashing verse
design the meaning of life that provides
incentive for compassion through the purse
to help the broken people that wealth hides,
urged by social justice to balance scales
for salvation bought at holiday sales.

Phoebus Christ opens hundred million doors
to every house still standing in the world
where grumbling teenagers perform their chores
with psychic energy of the dream herald
who will place your skull in museum hall
after gentle death gives her clarion call.

Hopeful people clutching old microphones
gather on the Bridge of Audacity
to chant spells of their poems to hungry stones
with hard-earned credits of tenacity
which should reprogram how our brains perceive
because every person needs time to grieve.

Shocked by dissolution of the mad king,
who tries to control how the People think,
we share sad stories of our suffering
while gliding on ice at the skating rink,
then sit with Buddha in garden of ferns
where the bush of Moses forever burns.

Regret for opportunities we miss
inspires our eager passion to explore
confusing labyrinth of the mind abyss
where devils sell fantasies at the store
with the neon sign that flashes our name
to announce new winner of the fame game.

Phoebus waits on the bridge that leads nowhere
for crowds of workers in the dawn-lit fog
who climb the infinitely-looping stair
with mission to complete the catalog
which chronicles fall of America
and subsequent rise of Zarathia.

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Orpheus films the performance while Phoebus Christ reads poetry at his inauguration as Poet Laureate of Zarathia.

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