One Of The Winged Seraphs
© Surazeus
2026 02 21

When he stumbles drunk in the Promised Land,
waving tattered book of weird fairy tales
in his hand, Richard shouts at Tree of Life
that he is in love with Annabel Lee
because he is one of the winged seraphs
who escaped Heaven with arrogant wings.

Smearing blood of rainbows with joyful rage,
while shouting insults at proud Gabriel,
Richard paints Tarzan on cold marble wall
to offend bright angels who rule the skies,
but they smile at antics of the wild child
who falls asleep by mushroom of the toad.

Irreverent voice of the subjective clown,
that withers holy daffodils of faith,
bulges from his chest with assertive pride
to tear constraints of strict morality
with alligator teeth of jealousy,
rejecting formal patterns of concern.

Perceived as intellectual clown of faith,
who maintains illusion of divine truth,
Richard tears pages out of holy books
to rearrange scenes of dramatic scope
where he plays role of the very clean tramp
who smashes god idols with steel guitars.

Grave pursuit of obliteration proves
crystal-clear melodies of chiming suites
disarrange mental sense of ordered time
through dynamic physics of fractured words
which spool consistent concepts of regret
since every moment binds eternity.

Rehearsed narratives honest people code
counterbalance sober insight with rage
of circumscribed progress relapsing straight
through puzzle of prepared absurdity
when Richard abandons his youthful game
for glossier assignments trashing truth.

Continuous rejection by Perun,
who catches lightning bolts with oaken wand,
convinces Richard to trap ocean ghosts
with undeveloped spirals spinning lies
by weaving repertoire of holy clowns
with self-invention through misquoted tricks.

Reborn as television god of lies,
who builds river boats from angelic bones,
Richard attempts to escape from bland Hell,
that he created with attentive care,
by fighting against predetermined fate
that his ancestors programmed in his brain.

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Orpheus plays electric guitar while Richard screams truth-entangled lyrics when their punk band performs in the grand cathedral of saintly skulls.

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