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Thinly Veiled, Young Man Comes to Me Seeking a Friendly Face
Thinly Veiled, Young Man Comes to Me Seeking a Friendly Face
(The Joker)
So I’m out and about one day
when this priest walks up to me and says,
“Beloved bard, my mother has died
and my father is ill and I’ve lost my faith.”
Dive deeper…
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Requiem for Iron Man Vasquez
1. Skeleton Tree
From the time I was five, I been big—meat
and bone and concrete clumps instead of hands.
My Ma, she did her damndest not to beat
me. Even when, most times, I couldn’t stand
the sight of her, and like the little punk
I always knew I was, I swatted her
thin, pale thighs with my hands—they were tree trunks
then, even at that age. I painted her
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I, Clark (A Confession of Empathy)
I, Clark (A Confession of Empathy)
(Clark Kent)
The light from Krypton’s passing
washed over this world centuries ago.
I’m sure that, somewhere, there was
a child watching the sky, wondering
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