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Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital
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…
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Benjamin “Biggers” Kane: Extortionist, Murderer, Bibliomancer.
Benjamin “Biggers” Kane:
Extortionist, Murderer, Bibliomancer.
(Interviewer’s Notes: As before, he smiles and I go cold.
But, as he speaks, his eyes are as afraid as mine.)
No one could ever know the lust I had
for hope. But Gilgamesh was dead and cold
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Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Country house. Old. Gray. Almost a shanty.
Short and rotund, Mother works in small herb garden.
Her skin is dark. Her hair in a pony tail. Her hands dirty.
It is Mother’s Day and Young Man is not at home
when the blood vessel in his mother’s head falls in
on itself. Boxers call it “punch drunk”—
Dive deeper…
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Issue #100: “Death in the Family!”
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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