Desolate Texas Highway
© Surazeus
2026 07 16

Cold wind howls on desolate Texas highway
where Darlene trudges to end of the world
after running away from house of sorrow
where her cruel step-father stumbles home drunk
and beats her mother to steal all her money
she earns working as a waitress all night.

Death walks beside her on dark Texas highway
but Darlene ignores his demonic eyes
and sneers at thunder that cracks walls of Heaven
by twisting rainbows into tangled knots
to calculate process of righteous anger
that guides her journey across the waste land.

Black van stops on the naked Texas highway
so Darlene runs into the howling wind
but three men drag her to the hotel prison
where old businessmen and youth pastors pay
with coins of despair forged from bitter laughter
to treat her like their sad wives they despise.

Running nowhere on the bruised Texas highway
after Darlene shoots mean pimp in the head,
she stumbles barefoot in the marble palace
where graceful ghosts worship Helen of Troy
who tries to hide inside the golden idol
to escape death from domestic abuse.

When we meet on the dusty Texas highway
Darlene gives me cracked mask of Lucifer
so I play noble role of tyrant-slayer
in revolution for justice and truth
till she gets trapped in Tower of Rapunzel
as popstar who sings on the stage of fame.

Ghost horse in drizzle on gray Texas highway
guides Darlene home to the small country town
where Vulcan works as car engine mechanic
who plays indie folk in the smokey bar
with mercurial voice of sincere compassion
for children killed in genocidal wars.

Hitchhiking west on the lone Texas highway,
Darlene considers secret of the moon
that shimmers in silver lake of discretion
with arcane formulas of moral code
to program how our brains perceive the world
as ever-shifting puzzle of tall tales.

Devils dance on deserted Texas highway
though Darlene unravels clock of her mind
transformed from concept of the loyal turtle
where the blind read lost books of tragic tales
designed to hypnotize objective people
with bright fantasy of the Afterlife.

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Orpheus finds Darlene leaning against the telephone pole outside the country bar so he offers her cigarette and listens to her sad story she never tells.

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