Please Withold the Spandex, So No, I Don't Read Comic Books...

my descriptions of my trips to get manga... said MAHNGA, not MANGA, by the way.... reuploading over here...

You’ll find me

knee deep

in some random,

off the beaten path,

bookstore

(sometimes referred to as borders

or Barnes and noble)

meandering through shelf after shelf

of hard covers

and paper backs,

(if I don’t want to invest)

 

but then

there’s the section

the 8 99 to 9 99 a piece

section

marked out only for the elite

the daring

the guys with really cool hair

and me

 

collapsing on the (usually blue) carpet

in front of such blessed presences

right to left

right to left

hour after hour

dramatic filler sketch after dramatic filler sketch

 

japanese home away from home

called MANGA

 

no, god damn it

its not a f*****g comic book

 

I never said I was cool,

But that’s just flat out degrading

 

Reviews

[Blake Q Hatfield]

Pretty neat poem. It feels like you're having a narritive style conversation with the reader.

[Songsungblue]

This one made me smile. And I needed a smile on this stormy day. Cheers!