Melancholera

[Delta40]

A half jug of beer and a smile that spills
to one side when I try to surface
greets the grey blur of my eyes.
Blue Kryptonite enticed me, deflected me
and yet here I am,
believing I would always know your presence.
Like any Sapphirite, I was fooled.
Now, the only mementoes are blobs of wax
stuck to the coffee table.
Puddles of cola and cigarette ash
blot out the comic strip fantasy and remind me
just how unalienesque I truly am.
I inhale the stale past.
Captain Pugwash
George of the Jungle
Top Cat.
Melancholera gushes out in dollops
till even the Daily Planet headlines
are sprayed with stark realization.
I remove the catwoman masquerade
and swallow the slurry of truth before me.
Between steaming chunks of spicy lamb kebab
the world discovers Superman has
joined Heros Without Borders.
My strength is drained by Times New Roman.
Somewhere, a crucified body signals an utterance
I'm still here. Hey folks I saved you remember?
I curl up like a dead kitten
wrapped in yet another defectors shroud.

[MystyrMystyry]

Another Wonder!

I like unalienesque as a comparative

At times I thought you may be imagining an alternative existence as Lois, others as though Lois was the narrator, still others nothing to do with Lois - or perhaps as the other woman in Supey's life, Lana, and what could have been and what became of her - but then Krash! Thuck! Bammo! Kapow! - Catwoman!?

Though the idea of c masquerade struck me as an alluring notion

I like Heroes Without Borders too - a little quippy sounding, but it works

In all the switching between cartoon and reality is quite a remarkable effect
- as though I was diving into a panel and then Steamy Lamb Kebabs! the hard edge drawing melted away and a soft warm comfortable reality took place and then there's real Catwoman at home by the fire watching toons on the telly

[Delta40]

thanks MM. I read that Superman is renouncing his US citizenship and found it rather inspirational (not to say comical!)

[MorpheusSandman]

There's a nice deconstructionist element going on here. So many of the best modern comics have been concerned with how our reality crashes with the fantasy of our comic book heroes, and it's always interesting to see the grounding of those fantasies in something much more mundane that still echoes with the more fantasized, heroic notions. Nice one, Delta.

[Delta40]

You review work wonderfully MS. I guess it is a deconstruction.

[Jerrybaldy]

they all let you down in the end. personally I have always thought of you as catwoman. Like that woman in the Simpsons :)

[Delta40]

Nobody picked up on the last four lines.

[Jerrybaldy]

A crucified body. Bugger. I missed it too. Greater kudos Delta.

[Delta40]

it was a little subtle but I thought the uproar about superman compared with the death of Christ worthy of satire.