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Too Slow for Escape: A Letter to Young Man

Transmitted on Monday, April, 13th, 2009 in Heroes & Myth , Poetry , The Flash

Too Slow for Escape: A Letter to Young Man
(The Flash)

Once, I ran into a burning building—
the flames danced like a hedge of boxwood staggering
in the wind. The kitchen was a blast furnace.
The blender was blackened, the refrigerator
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The 47 Seconds Between NY and LA

Transmitted on Monday, April, 13th, 2009 in Heroes & Myth , Poetry , The Flash

The 47 Seconds Between NY and LA -for Daniel
(The Flash)

Mrs. Johnson’s Chihuahua slipping
his leash; the mailman reaching
for mace; a woman starting
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Set, Egyptian God of Darkness and Evil, Speaks of Job Reassignment, Past Lives and Love:

Transmitted on Monday, April, 13th, 2009 in Heroes & Myth , Poetry

Set, Egyptian God of Darkness and Evil,
Speaks of Job Reassignment, Past Lives and Love:

(Interviewer’s Notes:  If he had demanded my blood, my death,
if he had demanded anything, I wouldn’t be consumed by melancholy.)

I’ve bathed in black, called up the Jackal God
for you. I’ve come as storms. I’ve ravished skies,
carved up your Nile, ate fishermen and priests,

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An Open Letter from the Supervillain the Red Skull

Transmitted on Monday, April, 13th, 2009 in Captain America , Heroes & Myth , Poetry

An Open Letter from the Supervillain the Red Skull

And what if I went away? Gave up my vintage SS wardrobe?
What if I disassembled the repulsor rays, the secret submarines
I keep beneath arctic waters for rainy days and spontaneous
governmental coups? What if I set free my standing army?
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