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Issue #100: “Death in the Family!”

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

Issue #100: “Death in the Family!”
This is it: the tearjerker issue. The death of Young Man’s father.
The moment loyal fans have been writing and blogging about.
“What happened?” they all ask. “Was Young Man there?
How monumentally did he fight? What about the other heroes? Dive deeper…

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Thinly Veiled, Young Man Comes to Me Seeking a Friendly Face

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

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.”
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Requiem for Iron Man Vasquez

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

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)

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

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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