God made me into a marionette He pulled me from the dust He scooped me out of coals. He breathed life into my belly and now they call me animated earth. He carved my bones from alabaster stones long buried under piles of pine needles and leaves He sang songs of Light and Life and put them in my ears and taught me all the words and cut me silver keys. now i stand up tall like the Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Colossus of Rhodes i take showers under jungle waterfalls full of orchid petals and with angel fish climbing up the rock walls. my head and all my limbs are hanging by golden silken strings and threads and where I walk the moss and lichens grow. He fashioned my eyes from glass blown over the hot geysers and sulfur springs of thermopylae and the salt basin dunes. He plucked my pupils from the pregnant blackness of the Void. He struck them over steel and flint and the sparks made it bright enough to see. my heart is a time-piece keeping minutes with its beats like a great shadow cast behind a sphere. the elements once kept me apart from me my identity, I was a hungry ghost walking around town like a hypodermic voodoo doll. everytime I turned around I tripped over another basket full of rattlesnakes hissing from both ends. I gave up and crossed my heart and gave it over to the chemical egregore hoping I would die while somehow staying alive and learning how to fly away home- so i could leave all the piles of ashes and teeth alone and maybe plant a rose garden.
but God made of me a marionette strung me up from strings of silken gold. He breathes for me, and dances me to the music of the spheres and now the whole planet is a Hanging Garden of the Fallen Babylon and now I keep snakes as exotic pets and as company when iām lonely and for afternoon tea.