Plead Temporary Insanity
© Surazeus
2025 02 19

When nonsense of America coheres
in modest riddle of the goal to win
wealth of wisdom from the laboring hand,
Cynthius will show up at our front door
with the billion-dollar fake check of greed
to plead temporary insanity.

Since trees are important to development
of urban zones with well-manicured lawns,
legions of devils Cynthius commands
drive fancy cars across the river bridge
to hide their luminous sorrows with pride
and plead temporary insanity.

One million immigrants with holy books
talk to each other in dream-tangled verse
through syntax of magicians who employ
electric wires to program robot knights
who march with guns to conquer paradise
and plead temporary insanity.

Cynthius, who escapes the solemn church,
hides in cave where Plato the Puppeteer
performs shadow play on the wall of truth
so he can write weird formulas for faith
to translate machine language from sea waves
and plead temporary insanity.

Alone on mountain of the broken skull,
Cynthius plays soul-haunting melody
on silver flute of melancholy hope,
while goldfinch of the phantom menace lands
on his shoulder with sprig from the plum tree,
to plead temporary insanity.

Wandering in library of singing books,
Cynthius searches for story of faith
where love overcomes death with honesty,
but all he finds are frilly fairy tales
about the fool who gets lost on his quest
to plead temporary insanity.

Riding the horse of arrogant disdain
for preachers who scam the people with lies,
Cynthius moves with his sad memories
that vibrate music in bones of his soul
when he shows kindness to war refugees
who plead temporary insanity.

Meeting Cupid and Psyche at the bar
where Phanaeus plays classical folk songs,
Cynthius reveals the pearl of great price,
shaped like the star-luminous Eye of God
which heals our broken hearts with secret love,
to plead temporary insanity.

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Orpheus and Cynthius ride horses in the Grand Canyon to find the oldest woman in the world who knows why.

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