The Trickster's Tale

Roll up roll up merry folk for the greatest show on Earth

Lest you forget the true meaning of your birth

You may be expecting me to pull a rabbit out of a hat

Pray dear audience I can promise you so much more than that

An unprecedented number shall unravel before your very eyes

An enchantment so unique that will catch you by surprise

Illusion begets delusion I see your mouths are all agape

The trick I shall perform is called ‘The Greatest Escape’

Behold a singular contraption of my very own design

Into which each and every punter is invited to confine

Don’t panic inside don’t hold your breath

Don’t fear the arcanes of an imminent death

Don’t dial 999 don’t invoke 666

Don’t pay Charon to cross the Styx

Espouse the cleansing liquid as it irrigates nerve and fibre

Regenerate the life source of the Nile and the Tiber

Delivered from bogus evil take a curtsy or a bow

As elevated Struldbruggs your chance to make a vow

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old

Each and every one of you the rainbow’s pot of gold

Scrubbed clean from mortal vices deficient of amoral pride

Debunk the psychotic absurdity of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

You start a question and it’s like starting a stone

Learn to accept your reward give the dog a bone

Dancing prancing middle finger to nonsensical law

Kafka metamorphosed by the crow on the shore

You can kill the dreamer sure but you can’t kill the dream

Creeds colours and beliefs conjugate to create the team

Champion higher laws with which we were once bestowed

Time has come for the raised to take over from the sowed

Sure-handed Hadean designs all but betrayed

The coin lands on Heads sing a sublime serenade

A melody so sweet resonates through the universe

Helios enfranchises the departed from their curse

Space-hopping from Mercury to Pluto to elect an abode

Scotty beams me up as a reminder of the code

Beingscape articulates every animate possibility

Impassability subtility clarity and agility

A painstaking test market of peaks and troughs in the field

4.5 billion years of labour to harvest an immaculate yield

Pay credit to our unsung heroes I name Ruben and Jade

Village idiot Homer Augustin & Sisyphus for the role you played

Priest mother doctor & farmer’s wife your soul did you sell

No need to fret because there’s no such place as Hell

A new heading has been set for which we can calmly set sail

The sixteen vestal virgins sing A Whiter shade of pale

The newborn erect everglowing sinless dogmas

Bend the knee I pray of thee entertain brave new sagas