River Of Dream Keys
© Surazeus
2026 02 04

Rather than eat the ocean stone of faith,
while thinking about black milk of the Earth,
I prefer to become the first apple seed
that dares to crack the asphalt parking lot
where holy angels park cars to attend
church service in glass cathedral of lies.

Jealous that I found secret jewel mine
from which I extract wisdom of star gods,
the faithful servants of the Lord attempt
to chain my hands in dungeon of despair,
but I am subtle whisper of the breeze
that dances on the river of dream keys.

After selling ice cream to Tantalus
and soothing hand lotion to Sisyphus,
Socrates attends the Rolling Stone show
to dance with wild abandon of the fool
because he is in love with Hecate
who brews wine in cavern of innocence.

Despite regret for beheading the seer
who prophesied his fall from mental grace,
King Herod sends goon squad with guns of hate
to chase immigrants out of paradise,
so Phoebus builds ark of the covenant
to sail home on the river of dream keys.

Forgetful how he came to rule the world,
the Weeping Jester of Wohalia
paints portrait of grand eagle on tall pine
with noble bearing of angelic power,
then calls Rapunzel in her prison tower
who listens to him talk about the truth.

Nobody knows why men kill other men,
invading valley of the laughing skull
with principle of faith to colonize
Garden of Eden with new shopping malls
where gangsters fight battles for thought control
over who owns the river of dream keys.

In our search for freedom in the woke world,
programmed by urgent need to evade death,
we give each other fake holiday gifts
with preciously obscene anguish of love
while staring at rose window in the church
that slants conceptual truth with psychic heft.

Though Jesus Christ will never come again
because his mortal body is now dust,
brave spirit of Good Leader he embodied
appears each generation in the world
to free the people from cruel tyranny
so we fish on the river of dream keys.

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Orpheus maps the river of dream keys while working as hydrologist at the University of Zarathia to write his doctoral dissertation on how humans translate the song of water to poetry.

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