Invent Fractured Identities
© Surazeus
2026 02 03

I telephone absent friends who are dead
because eyeless birds are answering machines
whose eyes of wisdom set the world ablaze
though I ardently desire to transform
beyond definition of the sad clown
who wants to make people laugh as they cry.

My memories flock across the burning sky
as ravens searching for the Promised Land
which I design with perfidy of faith
through penchant for supple tonalities
I share with blood-stained angels who detest
men who abuse people with selfish greed.

Stymied by corruption of sterile greed,
my quest to free the world from cage of hope
persists against iniquities of bombs
which I encode with riddles of respect
in constitution of progressive pride
through checks and balances of honesty.

Determined to settle colonial scores
through dispensation of the frightened clerk,
I sharpen schizophrenic knife of truth
between discourse of brave equality
and double-talk of arbitrary power
based on practice of plundering pure prayers.

I constantly question the lyric I
through careful ridicule of structured cost
by undermining pride of calm concern
based on writhing analysis of truth
that shimmers with ethereal travesty
since I invent fractured identities.

Amused they crucify the robot clown,
I host peace conference of global fate
on holy island of the prison camp
where bankers play chess with peasants and fools
when they negotiate fraught settlement
between opposing gangs of hungry thieves.

King of the most reviled pariah state,
I give nicknames to everyone I meet
when I convince them unicorns are real
as vibrant shadows of our bleeding hearts
who steal light of our complex legacy
by selling cynical doubts to believers.

Reptilian tears of biographic myth
reveal entitled right to eat ripe fruit
that falls from twisted limbs of power poles
from which hang voiceless lines for telephones
because we dream of worthless paradise
while climbing hills in seasons out of time.

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Orpheus hosts peace conference in Cathedral of the Singing Skull to broker cooperation between ever-fighting empires of arrogant kings.

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