Teach Us How To Dance
© Surazeus
2025 07 30

If I should fall in love with Clara Bow
and dance with spirit of the Flapper Girl,
I might relive sweet passion of the heart
that seeks to flee from maze of Babylon
and dance in shining hills of Hollywood
where Dionysus wears black pinstripe suit.

Wild red hair of the fairy we adore
entangles hearts of worshippers with faith
so spritely passion of unfettered love
may triumph over spirit-chaining rules,
till she is trapped as Sibyl in the cage
who prophesies fall of America.

Each time America falls in disgrace
survivors gather on the river shore
to build new town based on equality
which quickly goes awry when clever thieves,
wearing slick suits and scarlet power ties,
seize control of banks in sly psychic coups.

When happy people of America
elect Clara Bow as our President,
she appoints her old father Dionysus
to run the Department of Happiness,
commissioned to deport the arrogant
who impose bitter religious beliefs.

Stone walls that mark lush Connemara hills
protect wild fairies Titania employs
to wake the frightened people in cold halls
from nightmare in the cave of writhing fire,
then lead them into fields of sparkling mist
to dance and sing among the graves of gods.

My direct male line from Adam to me
migrates from Nigeria, across Arabia,
through Iran, along India, to China,
north to Lake Baikal in Mongolia,
then west through Scythia to Italia,
over two hundred thousand years of hope.

I race my horse across the windy plain,
chasing the sun over four thousand years
from Lake Baikal to Lake Geneva, west
to climb crystal mountains of singing crows
where I rule the world as fierce Jupiter
with thunderbolt I forge from rock of faith.

After I die, place my spell-chanting skull
in the library of Westminster Abbey
along with Orpheus, Merlin, and Hamlet,
so we can talk about how human tribes
build the Tower of Babel with their blood
so Clara Bow can teach us how to dance.

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Orpheus stars with Clara Bow in the movie about the girl who teaches people to dance to free them from the sorrow of hunger and despair in the crowded cities of America.

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