Friday, April 25, 2008

The Greatest Bar

Maybe it's because
I just don't know
the normal limits
of the social graces,
because I have so little
experience with them,
the alien concepts,
and I never learn,
even though by all rights
I should know a thing
or two, should have
accumulated something.
It's just, a little
of Peter Pan lives in me,
a refussal to accept
what is taken for granted,
a belief that life
must progress from
one set of priorities
to another. I have my set,
and these are in constant
social conflict. I have
no lost boys, and flying
only gets me so far.

That's why Capt. Hook,
like Lex Luthor, is among
the most fascinating figures
in literature for me.
Now is a great time
to re-examine the concept
of villains.

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