Superhero (a poem)

Fliesher Superman is Public Domain
A Little Change of Pace

Bounding out of bed by Six
When Last night was up 'til 2
Watching Late Night Horror Flicks
eating some gourmet junk food

Saturday means superheroes
I can't stay asleep
Wake up, straight to the TV set
forgetting to brush my teeth

Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops
They both fill my bowl
and Superman and his merry troupe
fight to keep the world whole

Mom is calling, in the kitchen
telling me to get together
Put on your raincoat, quickly, boy
It's gonna be some nasty weather

Grudgingly, grumbling, grunting, I grab my soccer stuff
Go back to turn the TV on
Mom turns it off "you've had enough"
and off we go, i start to yawn
to play a game, the crack of dawn

Running round, we both make goals
and laughing at our inability
The rain slows up, just enough
So we can lose oh so dutifully

The weekend ends, I go to school
I draw in all the margins
That Superman is pretty cool
I wish he were here with me too

I fantasize, I dream, and see
a strong arm fist and righteous need
to fight and love and save the world
arrest the bad guys, kiss the girl

But here at school, see, things are strange
Boring, tedious, nothing I can change
There are Bullies in the hall
And when they trip me, I do fall

Getting home, the superhero wakes up once again
Tracing over drawings, dreaming, one day when
I'll save the world, escape from school
and finally, at last I'll really be cool

But back at home, these fish sticks
they stare me in the face
I gag, and scoff , but mom she laughs
and tells me to lick my plate

Homework, then I go to bed
dream of another day
when I can be a superhero
and finally escape

And dream I will for many years
or at least thats what I remember
until I found those Playboy mags
one fateful day in November

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• superman
• superhero
• poem
• childhood
• froot
• loops
• cartoons
• soccer
• mom
• ozjthomas

[bbbleaver]

oz, you continue to surprise! awesome.

[ozjthomas]

Hi Charlie. Thanks.

[TheLogicJunkie]

I really, really like this. The struggle to continue to be something you can admire.

[ozjthomas]

Indeed. I really liked your poem, by the way, you are a very good writer, and a much better speaker than I.

[TheLogicJunkie]

My only friends growing up were television characters and comic books. So I think of myself in those terms. But ask me to live a flesh and blood, human life, and I'm incapable, because it seems so alien to me.

[ozjthomas]

I can completely relate. I pretty much raised myself, with overwhelmed or disaffected teachers and tv and the woods as my only companions. I can understand animals much more, the complexities of human relations and some of the insincertities leave me very vulnerable.