Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital

Transmitted on Monday, April, 13th, 2009 at 10:20 pm in Captain America , Heroes & Myth , Poetry

Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital
(Steve Rogers)

Even if a man has been chopped down
to leglessness and lingering, worshiping
at the altar of what used to be, he is not without
his will to be so incomplete and gnawed—
so human—that he cannot unwrap the bandages
on his dangling hand and, with groaning
effort and malice, offer up his middle finger— Dive deeper…