Delivery Of The Keys
© Surazeus
2025 08 31

Whoever asks the angel for her name
will vanish in wind of meaningless words
by teleporting to the Promised Land
that turns out to be the galactic zoo
where happy children are brainwashed in school
to worship face of the arrogant fool.

Somebody keeps knocking on the back door
so Michael stumbles over divine spear,
but no one is standing on the back porch,
so he drinks beer and watches football game
between Angels and Devils for thought control
when God and Satan gamble for our lives.

Orpheus fills out job application forms
at every busy car factory in town,
but no one wants to hire the psychopomp
who, they fear, would form strong union of workers
to oppose unfair business practices
because they earn low wages for long hours.

When Michael, racing his pickup too fast,
knocks over motorbike Orpheus drives,
they fistfight outside the locked Baptist church,
then eat hamburgers at the country bar,
yet both fall in love with the young blonde girl
who plays guitar and sings of broken hearts.

Venus goes home with the archangel Michael
and gasps with pleasure when he spreads his wings
that shimmer silver as wings of the swan
just as the clock in the oak strikes thirteen
to signal coming of the serpent princess
born nine months later from the queen of love.

While wandering in vast maze of city streets
Orpheus sneaks in library of books
where he sees Aurora with long red hair
reading books about the history of art
so they talk about linear perspective
devised by wise Filippo Brunelleschi.

Invited by the savior of the world
to attend the delivery of the keys,
Orpheus waits on the plaza at dawn
to understand where the sun goes at night,
but decides that angels do not exist
though Michael has become his new best friend.

Piloting the passenger jet in Heaven,
Michael explains over the intercom
that they are passing over Rocky Mountains
where nymphs and satyrs dance in alpine meadows
till they are arrested by black-masked agents
and deported back to Arcadia.

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Orpheus forms union of autoworkers and fights to enforce the rule that they work no more than eight hours a day for fair living wages.

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