The authorities & Mythical Zeus (a prose poem)
The authorities said we have your fingerprints.
Mythical Zeus said I am certain this is impossible.
The authorities said beyond any shadow of a doubt.
Mythical Zeus said I have no memory of being here.
The authorities said you have been here thousands of times.
Mythical Zeus, in flux like a wavery obsidian shadow, said I am certain this is impossible.
The authorities said we constantly retrieve your fingerprints, alongside other evidence.
Mythical Zeus said perhaps I know this location by another name.
The authorities said possibly you have forgotten, an easy mistake to make.
Mythical Zeus said why do you – how strange – you would speak to me of memory.
The authorities said possibly you have have been deceived.
Mythical Zeus said why do you – how strange – I am not aware of mistakes or deception.
The authorities said we can be of great assistance with this – with you – with clearing your name…
Mythical Zeus said I am on a search-party mission to rename & reactivate thought-forms previously declared abandoned & lost. And I am not lost.
The authorities, concurring, said we wish to save you from your illness.
Mythical Zeus said I am not aware of any illness.
The authorities, concurring, said please sign the form giving consent.
Mythical Zeus said what will be done based on my signature if I sign.
The authorities said whatever we deem consequently necessary to deactivate the current situation.
Mythical Zeus took a deep breath, diving like Johnny Weissmuller into the multidimensional ocean, on his search-party mission to realign & reassign thought-forms previously declared abandoned & lost. Alone, he did not feel abandoned.
The last line of the poem places the images in context. A figure in motion as if underwater in a multidimensional ocean. A figure suspended like an angel above a medieval landscape, swimming through the air.
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