Crown Of World Authority
© Surazeus
2025 10 19

The slender awkward boy wearing gray suit
sits pertly alone in front pew of church
beside busy road in Oregon town,
and reads passages of sibylline verse
from book of his favorite prophet Isaiah
while sunlight gleams in window of his heart.

When time portal of green flames opens wide,
he leaps through blank wall on angelic wings
and finds himself in lush Missouri woods
driving wagon pulled by the swift white horse
loaded with rifles for the Promised Land
to the white church perched high on oak tree hill.

With silver revolver in leather holster,
he plays folk songs on polished wood guitar
where people dance on lawn before the barn
after feasting on chicken and potatoes
while black locomotive puffing white steam
clacks rapidly through fields of golden wheat.

When Raphael descends from swirling clouds,
he fires arrow of faith at heart of Venus
who writhes with anguish of the Weeping Mother
pushed from the black Mustang by snarling Mars
who burns rubber tires when he peels away
while Cochise cradles her in his arms.

When rain storm flushes broad river with tears
that flood the city streets with roiling waves,
Cochise presents raven feather high
in boat which Orion rows in pouring rain
to rescue thousands of people with care
though Thor fires bullets of rage at them all.

Robotic spotted owl with emerald eyes
spreads wide assertive wings of gratitude
to fill his heart with spirit of insight,
so he grasps crown of world authority
that falls from head of Jesus on the cross
while satyrs string phone lines into his brain.

While Orion in cowboy hat and boots
herds cows along Ohio River shore,
Cochise drives long silver limousine
across the prairie where antelope roam
to leave computers under Christmas trees
for all the little children of the world.

To frame the world as his own paradise
the slender awkward boy wearing gray suit
strips naked on the lawn before his church
and chants recondite spells of psychic truth
which prophesy fall of America
till Thor assassinates shaman of faith.

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Orpheus hosts funeral for the last American prophet which nobody but his wife and children attends in relentless rain of obscurity.

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