Before The Bombs Fall
© Surazeus
2025 09 09

The goat leaps from the moon onto the hill
then hangs around in the gas station yard
all day eating grass while cars fly away
to soar on angel wings among the clouds
that crumble into words in story books
for children to read before the bombs fall.

When Faunus skips down suburban sidewalks
he scatters apple seeds in cement cracks
so saplings sprout from rotting corpse of God
to consume the sprawling city landscape
as their roots crack open bank safes of gold
for people to steal before the bombs fall.

Despite clear glow of sun on cement walls,
Juturna pauses on her way to work
on fourteenth floor of Conceptual Insurance
at sudden awful feeling in her gut,
and wonders if terrible things occur
to honest people before the bombs fall.

Driving white truck along suburban roads,
Mercury puts mail in boxes of hope
that might contain clever method to cope
when gangsters take over the government
and take away inalienable rights
from good citizens before the bombs fall.

Fuming with anger that his cute girlfriend,
Venus, is now secretly dating Vulcan,
Mars buys assault rifle from the gun shop,
then storms headquarters of their company
and shoots ten thousand people in the heart
who beam to Heaven before the bombs fall.

Amused that Tower of Rapunzel falls
bankrupt from slow embezzlement of funds,
Neptune relaxes in glass fishing boat
and contemplates the weird meaning of life
that we invent with purpose of the plan
to build cathedrals before the bombs fall.

Searching for the oldest woman on Earth,
Cupid wanders endless suburban maze
with key that opens door of every home
till he finds Hera sitting in the park
where she feeds voices to innocent ghosts
who steal human masks before the bombs fall.

Awake in Garden of Mortality,
Caelus asks Fortuna to marry him,
so they invite everyone to the feast
but only Buddha comes with Saraswati
who plays haunting songs of love on the veena
for children who cry after the bombs fall.

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Orpheus designs the bomb that reconfigures chaotic swirl of atoms into the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that grows huge in the Oval Office of the White House.

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