| – The act of reading occurred, Like creation, in sage steps.. First awareness of selfhood Was there. Idolatry, beyond Teacher’s axioms and action Words became rationality. Take comics for instance: Captain Marvel’s, “Shazam!” Superman’s, “Faster than…” In them I invested my youth. In them I found me: grown up. Doing deeds I could not do, Never would do. Before girls Intruded, icons fought for me. Together we were something. All alone, I was nothing. Just a foam-flecked Blue daddy’s boy. Comically literate. Ilya’s Honey, Dallas Poets Community, Dallas, Texas. |
The Krypton Kid
James Francis Cahillane 