King Of Worthless Things
© Surazeus
2025 04 02

Because he plays the king of worthless things,
robins leave torn pages from holy books
on the metal table in the back yard
where the mango queen takes selfies with Death
to show her followers around the world
that she values every person on Earth.

Because the Earth is spinning in his head,
he gives the dead voices they never had
when they were struggling each day to survive
by assembling puzzles of castle towers
on the asphalt parking lot of the mall
where angels keep falling on the tar roof.

Because the sky disrespects him with jokes
about his strength and courage to fight back,
he races with the football down the field
to imitate the hunter with the pig
that he steals from the village by the lake,
and wins through goalposts of his village gate.

Because he loves the woman on the horse,
he gathers apples in his two-wheeled cart
and pushes it along the sparkling stream
to sell them at the crowded market place
for copper coins that he can use to buy
new brass cauldron for his wife to cook stew.

Because he seeks to know the origin
of commerce basic to civilized life,
he digs chunks of minerals from the hill cave
and sells them to the man on the brick hill
who laughs that his dirt holds nothing worthwhile,
so he lies hungry on the temple steps.

Because he wants to buy the fast sports car,
he sits all day in the small cubicle
and enters numbers on the spreadsheet file
to calculate progress from the stone age
that man has gained the past five thousand years,
then drinks beer in the bar to watch football.

Because he uses dangerous formulas
based on mathematics of divine fate
to build the piston engine of the greed,
he wears the polished mask of Daedalus
on Halloween to trick Fortune and Death
in bargain with the Devil to be rich.

Because he steals the crown of thorns from Christ
in vain attempt to avoid judgment day,
he tries to deny in the court of fate
that he is still the king of worthless things
though he keeps trying to sell fake angel wings
as Orpheus takes him to his cage in Hell.

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Orpheus takes the chainsaw away from the king of worthless things, then confiscates all the money he stole and gives it back to the people of the land.

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