Guilt (a poem-ish).

Illustration of flying figures on Etch-a-Sketch

Illustration of flying figures on Etch-a-Sketch by my daughter (2012, age 5)

Guilt

No one knows, no one. Flags half down, world mourns, hero gone.

One day leaping over rivers,
stopping bullets,
knocking down rockets,
cracking glaciers over burning buildings.

A hero, the hero, hero of our time,
this time, I’m no zero somewhat, I don’t think I’m ujsuu a blue collar traveler in this world, building homes, vacationing south in the winter.

I’m just a bird, a bird, a little bird, and if Supermman would be been paying attention, he wouldn’t run into my beak.

Poor blind Superman, poor Splatman.

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