Seeking Work on the Up Up and Away



How I long for the Justice League!
For my boyhood heroes of table
top kingdoms and early afternoon
strokes of paint and pencil.
Where is Race Banon, with shock
of white masculine hair winning
smile and fists of fury?
Does Zoro's rapier still find
the time to shred the cloth
of evil grin?
Who has seen Tarzan's bone-
kife and loincoth, savage
costume of neverland?
But I have learned that
Aquaman sinks in water
turned stew, Sir Lancelot
cries crocodile tears.
What does Superman do when
he must fly with strings?
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
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Characters 495
Words 91
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19

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