Code Of Fake Books
© Surazeus
2025 11 29

Frantic solitude of angelic hearts
traps sorrows of ghosts in code of fake books,
yet nameless people all over the world
share stories of their lives in tangled threads
all woven in vast tapestry of faith
so we understand how each other feels.

Though I crawl across jagged stones of fear
on wind-lashed beach below the towering cliff,
I feel strange beauty of mercurial waves
exert magnetic radiance of fraught truth
that excites my heart with drive to assert
new narrative my brain designs from shock.

Despite prevalence of orthodox faith
in strict prediction that stocks oversight
with optimum progress of the oracle,
I peer in eyes of strangers with concern
so I perceive this world of fractured forms
through premonition of our hungry hearts.

Severe statistics through dream registry
provide salvation based on revenue
acquired through beaming satellites of jokes
that service semantics devised by fools
trained with tactical strategies of fear
against seasonal resonance of trees.

Strange woman wearing broken mask of joy,
which she carved from trunk of the honey tree,
encourages me to sign her warranty
as talented volunteer of the church
through tradition devised by therapist
who translates tradition of psychic rites.

With each new prototype my hands create
from prominent radius of rapid plots,
I perform role of reserved realtor
primed to sell time shares to the afterlife
where eager visitors ask demons why
people reject clues to the renaissance.

Each riddle I preach in my ministry
diverts attention of your compact mind
through trite evasion from current display
that forecasts secret emotions we share
based on disfocused attention to scale
so no one understands how we should feel.

Recycled decor in cathedral hall
exports equipment of extreme respect
divorced from chronic drama of tense love
except for coupons still uncredited
because I sell fake books of history
that chronicle our frantic solitude.

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Orpheus teaches principles of psychology to refugees from war at the University of Zarathia, then hangs out at the Wingless Pegasus, eating a burger as poets read at the open mic.

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