Where The Vampire Lives
© Surazeus
2025 05 12

If the walnut tree cannot understand
sweet song of rubber tires on asphalt roads,
then only butterflies will know the way
back to library of the singing skull
who photographs weird strangers strolling by
till they all disappear in lonely leaves.

If the candycane-striped lizard decides
to erase formulas of secret dreams
from chalkboards of empty high-school classrooms,
then wizard who works in small country town
as car mechanic could refuse to tell
the city gumshoe where the vampire lives.

If the rusty green Lincoln Continental
grinds serpent eggs into computer code,
then the sad vampire searching for true love
might hide inside the chemistry textbook
when the old detective in wrinkled suit
pokes around the library of his brain.

If the goldfinch in the walnut tree sees
the evil vampire in gray business suit
aim shotgun at the trench coat by the gate,
then he should call Minerva on the phone
who races on the tortoise to protect
her father from the conman at the bank.

If the car mechanic hears the goldfinch
explain how to play chess to the Grim Reaper,
then he may wander in the western waste
without the country of his spirit birth
till he becomes the stranger on the street
who finds the vampire stabbed behind the church.

If Remus photographs the running man
who throws the skull of Jesus at the moon,
he mind arrest the banker in the church
who drinks communion wine with bitter snarl
before he turns into the writhing snake
that slithers along sewer pipes of faith.

If the girl harlequin in fluffy skirt
campaigns for mayor of the country town,
then the mechanic she secretly loves
can play golf with Aristotle at dawn
who gives her the most expensive jet plane
as gift in return for rights to drill oil.

If the sky falls in shards of broken dreams
transforming into snow flakes of desire,
then we can program lies that tell the truth
which shine bright as lamp of Diogenes
who solves the strangest murder mystery
written with blood on falling autumn leaves.

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Orpheus studies the lamp of Diogenes in the Museum of Fake Artifacts next to the magnifying glass of Sherlock Holmes.

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