Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between lyricist / writer Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno
“The Tyrant’s Closet” is coming to music streaming services on 06/22/2026. You can listen to it today on the Suno Website here.
The Tyrant’s Closet
In the tyrant’s closet
a telling wardrobe grows
to push aside the narrative
that the emperor has no clothes
Shined shoes for
hungry bootlickers
smeared with virgin honey
tailored suits for traffickers
breast pockets lined with money
A leather box and flag pins
some strewn on a stack of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel
A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands
and spray tan cans
scrapped plans
for ballroom stages
In the tyrant’s closet
behind a rack of ties
a stack of notes handwritten
on the effectiveness of lies
A row of paper shredders
to make sure we never see
Love letters from North Korea
and those pics from Vlady P
A leather box of flag pins
some strewn on stacks of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel
A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom stages
In the tyrant’s closet
behind pictures from teen pageants
and a grainy torture video
of enemy combatants
An open bag of diapers
a case of diet coke
a Chappaquiddick windshield wiper
and written warnings to the woke
A leather box of flag pins
some strewn on stacks of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel
A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom stages
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