Grand American Carnival
© Surazeus
2025 03 11

Thrown overboard because I rocked the boat,
I ride dolphin of hope like Arion,
then ponder in shade of the kikayon
like Jonah before the locked White House gate,
where I will prophesy with Voice of Fate
fall of America from the greedy goat.

With Sisyphus I push the rolling stone
from ruined pyramid of Babylon
to build temple on peak of Mount Ziyon,
then smash clay-foot idol of the Mad King
who tries to rule the world with the One Ring
in new episode of the Twilight Zone.

Across television screen of the moon
that displays tales of mystic Avalon,
which I watch in my home in Oregon,
plays romance of Weaver Girl and Cowherd
who meet on bridge of the barbaric bird
with love to sing their American tune.

Clashing war spears in Troy with Robert Lowell
for the Union dead on the White House lawn,
where the President is a Russian pawn,
I hone sharp as truth my Durendal blade
for Red Cross Knight on holy crusade
inaugured by the grim Athenian Owl.

Rescued from gold-mine Hell by Percival,
who tricks Persephone with eidolon
to crown me King of Death on Helicon,
I unite all countries of Hahnunah
on Turtle Island ruled by Onatah
to host Grand American Carnival.

Strumming lyre of Mercury by the lake,
beneath tall willow of the leprechaun,
who studies physics in the cosmotron,
I build from ruins of America
new world republic of Zarathia
where everyone gets to eat chocolate cake.

Safe in my Spartan cottage by the sea,
I paint portraits of my love Melusine
who watches our cute daughter Clementine
play with her best friend sweet Ophelia
reading from scrolls of esoterica
to learn arcane spells of soul alchemy.

Descended from black-gowned Puritan Witch,
I structure vast crystalline hexagon
with proverbs from seraphic lexicon
to map cultural history of Elysium
that preserves our epics in World Museum
which angels sing with ethereal pitch.

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Orpheus joins Ophelia in world museum to study scrolls written by angels with dragon blood to learn about alchemy of souls.

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