Watch The River Flow
© Surazeus
2026 07 31

Beneath the golden bough of earnest faith,
Phoebus fixes engine of the white Honda
for Ceres who sits in the waiting lounge
analyzing cereal sales on her laptop
while song of Mercury on the radio
blends with hum of cars on the busy road.

After Ceres drives repaired car to work,
Phoebus eyes large black van that pulls in,
squinting at Mars with tattoos on his arms,
then glances in the back to see six girls
who slouch and hide their eyes behind long hair
as he opens the hood for diagnosis.

Dismantling the engine that works just fine,
Phoebus gestures to Vulcan and Minerva
who close garage doors and call the police
while Mars and Neptune emerge from the van
and snarl in anger at the long delay,
glaring leery at Phoebus who plays dumb.

Swinging metal pipe with suspicious rage,
grim Mars attacks with clumsy arrogance
but Phoebus dodges and punches his head,
while Minerva twirls and kicks with lithe grace
that knocks Neptune backward into the pole,
who pulls out his gun to fire at her head.

Somersaulting with martial elegance,
Minerva kicks the gun out of his hand,
and, though Mars punches his chest several times,
Phoebus swirls around with precise assault
in strike that binds his arms behind his back
as Vulcan leads police in the garage.

While the police, Jupiter and Diana,
arrest Neptune and Mars with steel handcuffs,
Phoebus unchains girls from back of the van
who hug each other and cry with relief,
then Venus and Vesta with grateful smiles
express gratitude for attentive help.

"We all applied for jobs in marketing,"
Vesta explains as she trembles in shock,
"but when we arrived for job interviews
they kept us prisoner in old hotels,
then took us everywhere across the country
while forcing us to work as their sex slaves."

As the freed girls leave with Officer Diana,
Vesta offers her phone number to Phoebus,
so they meet at the Pegasus Cafe,
attend new movie of the Odyssey,
then stroll together in the city park
where they hold hands and watch the river flow.

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Orpheus works as photographer at the wedding of Phoebus and Vesta where Venus and the girls play her bridesmaids who weep in happiness for her love.

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