Leaving aside the fact that you have at least 4 (EDIT: 5) mistakes in that code, I find it less readable than the Lisp equivalent. The brackets reinforce the structure imposed by the indentation and help me keep track of order of execution. But that's how my brain works and that's why syntax is subjective.
Well, the P in PEMDAS stands for 'brackets'. The clearest example, even though it's rather uncommon:
a := x ** y ** z
(and that's hoping the language does the OOE for exponentiation arithmetically correctly) versus
(setf a (expt x (expt y z)))
It's a bit like how Reverse Polish Notation is superior to the infix notation we torture ourselves with (x + y * z or (x + y) * z versus x y z * + or x y + z *).
But that's just associativity, not the order of evaluation? E.g. in C# expressions are evaluated strictly left to right, so if it had operator **, the order of evaluation would've been: