The Innisfree Poetry Journal

www.innisfreepoetry.org

by Colin Flanigan

REPORT FROM THE SUPERHERO HANGOUT

Its been a cryptic night of kryptonite
with burning eyes and black point pens
a night with Supermen and Wonderwomen
and the occasional arch nemesis

By midnight we’ll have tragicomic trials
with lipstick blood and blue-haired heroes
balanced on romantic tightropes
stretched above the absurd abyss

Myths, philosophies, religions
will be rent apart . . . rewoven
words will become hazardous waste
the dictionary drink poison

In the end a story will rise from the rubbish of words
slowly shake off its punctuation,
shamble off into the night
ravaging reality and the surrounding regions.



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