Revolt Against The Mad King
© Surazeus
2025 04 19

If Janet walks to the bright grocery store
past houses with lace curtains glowing blue
because people watch television shows,
she might remember where the sparrow falls
so she can weave its feathers in her heart
as she buys bread and milk with copper coins.

If Janet bears food in the paper sack
along the asphalt street that shimmers green
because young leaves were blown by the wind storm,
she might suggest the ghost inside the tree
could work as letter typist at the bank
since she likes painting white horses with wings.

If Janet cooks scrambled eggs on the stove
while demons dance as barely-controlled flames
because purple morning glory vines bind
souls of families with stories never told,
she might hide photos of her mom and dad
who drowned while fishing on the mountain lake.

If Janet eats toast with butter and jam,
described by Marcus Gavius Apicius
in his cookbook De Re Coquinaria,
she might play chess games with death on the beach
to save humanity from nuclear war,
yet cries because she loses every time.

If Janet reads the murder mystery book
about the librarian of antique books
found dead in the medieval history aisle,
she might translate the ancient epic poem
composed by Mercury with dragon blood
when drinking sweet banana-mango juice.

If Janet strolls on rolling grassy hills
to photograph the country college town
with silver river full of dragon ghosts,
she might solve puzzle of the Rainbow Bridge
signed by empty sorrow of endless roads
where people drive past fields of paradise.

If Janet gathers apples from the tree
where Lucifer lounges on crooked limb
while smoking flowers of the cosmic mind,
she might sell dreams of haunting fantasies
to lonely people hiding in the church
who pray for salvation to stick of wood.

If Janet meets Ishtar for Easter lunch
in garden grove beside the sparkling lake
to celebrate rebirth of spinning Earth,
she might march on the anniversary
of the day when We the People revolt
against the mad king and his tyranny.

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Orpheus speaks before the crowd demonstrating against the tyrant on the 250-year anniversary of start of the Revolutionary War against monarchy.

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