Secret Of Star Flowers
© Surazeus
2025 03 27

Totally lost in madness of his dreams,
Samuel strums rusty-stringed guitar and sings
in harmony with buzz of the radio
till his brain sprouts four plastic raven wings
when five men wearing masks in the black car
handcuff his thin hands and take him away.

Locked with Pandora in the golden cage,
Samuel stands on his hands for twenty hours
while she explains the secret of star flowers
that beam the animating soul of love
which fills his body with conceptual juice
since dictators never honor the truce.

Entranced by golden snake eyes of the girl,
Samuel gives Pandora his finger bones
so she can weave from threads of history
life-tale of Lucifer in tapestry
that hangs in castle hall of honesty
where Beowulf reads his new poetry.

Once Samuel crawls out of his turtle shell,
Pandora, twirling around their glass cage,
shows him how to become invisible
to people staring at them in the zoo,
so he breathes deep and spits words on the wall
that transform into scarlet butterflies.

Molding thick mud of his worm-consumed brain
into small model of the Trojan Horse,
Samuel gives ten thousand oranges of fate
to Pandora with smooth bow of respect,
so she makes orange juice people buy online
so she can buy fake wings of Icarus.

Holding up sign painted with blood of ghosts,
Samuel declares for dead angels to hear,
"Respect existence of every live soul
or expect resistance of the mad fools
who demand freedom and justice for all,"
but people driving cars in rain honk horns.

Hugging the mad fool to her loving breast,
Pandora chants disapparation spell
which teleports them far around the Earth
from detention cell in Louisiana
to ancient ruins of the Parthenon
where they kiss till the Earth becomes more real.

Taking selfies on their broken eye-phones
among time-weathered pillars of their hearts,
Samuel and Pandora, smiling with joy,
announce their marriage on social media
which garners thousands of congratulations,
then they grow old and die in their zoo cage.

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Orpheus watches Samuel and Pandora dancing together in their detention cell while hundreds of other inmates hum while pretending to be musical instruments.

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