Attention Of The Court
© Surazeus
2025 03 21

The trees of sorrow on the laughing plain
call my secret name in arrogant rain,
so I seek beauty on the wind-lashed shore
far outside comfort of the broken door
to sing with demons of Plutonian night
who shriek in horror at comfort of light.

Yet, when I wake in normal state of mind,
that bizarre illusion my brain designed
dissipates at glow of dawn on the wall,
so I wander groggily down the hall
to stare out the window and drink orange juice
while pretending I am not son of Zeus.

As agent of his secret justice squad,
recruited out of college by Storm God,
I must devise coherent action plan
with clever wisdom of the mountain man
to save our great nation from tyranny
and restore functioning democracy.

So I fry eggs and hash browns on the stove
while I count weapons in the treasure trove,
then drive the crowded highway into work,
where old spies and treasonous assets lurk,
to write detailed situation report
about the need for clandestine support.

Organizing gangs of soldiers with guns
who discuss war plans with misleading puns,
I gather army of fierce patriots
who arrive in pairs and take up their spots
to remove the traitor from seat of power
who hides terrified in his golden tower.

Just as we are ready to save the state
Minerva intervenes with spear of fate,
declaring that we are a nation of laws
dedicated to maintain noble cause
of justice through attention of the court
to enforce the right and punish the tort.

Though the traitor threatens to seize rich land,
and the thief waves the chainsaw in his hand,
we will not employ acts of violence
that would break all dutiful precedence
to arrest their rampage of grasping greed
through application of our honest creed.

Biding our time in shadows of the truth,
we develop plan with messiah sleuth
to arrange by the book through legal means
Operation Caesar with judgment liens
executed well by our cosmic herald
who leads revolution to save the world.

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Orpheus hosts meeting of intelligence officers to plan steps for saving our democratic republic from oligarchic tyranny.

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