the super american

the super american

A Poem by delapruch
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the age of this super american is over.

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WWII has been over for 66 years &

for some reason those responsible for the production of captain america: the first avenger

 think that now is a good time to bring back a d********g

who was originally called “super american”

by his creator, joe simon

(an obviously generic label amongst all the other “super” heroes that was even too much for the morons at marvel to run with),

& so the captain was born

because

“there weren’t a lot of captains” in comics.

 

originally this super american punched

hitler in the face & sold almost a million

copies when that first march 1941 issue

hit the newsstands,

capitalizing on a war fervor that was

explosive in the US before pearl harbor had

even been attacked---

super american & his sidekick “bucky” went

on to fight more nazis & the japanese until

bucky died & was replace by “betsy ross,”

the super american’s fbi agent girlfriend---

modeled on the woman who is said to have

sewn the first american flag, betsy did not revive

the dying series,

mainly because the nationalism that was burning bright

during “the great war”

had burnt out during the cold war period &

so the captain & his flag sewing girlfriend ended up

ceasing after 75 issues,

by which time the whole fiasco had been retitled

captain america’s weird tales---

such justice doesn’t happen often,

it is a shame that it took 75 issues to bring it

about.

 

now that this new film is about to be release out into the world,

given the state of america’s wonderful reputation

(a bit different than in 1941) as the world’s policeman

who stops at nothing to rape this planet of its natural resources,

squeezing every last drop into its own mouth,

one might wonder how the producers of this film expected to

bring in a dime---

isn’t it bad enough that bombs, troops & drones are storming into

other countries?

now we have to throw it up on the silver screen as well?

 

it turns out that the film’s title is to be changed for release in

russia, south korea & the ukraine

to only the first avenger.

 

just what exactly is this super american avenging now?

 

it seems that now the big

bad

boogeyman

is

us & if there was anyone to be

avenged,

it would be

those that we have stomped on,

those that we continue to stomp on &

those

who we plan on stomping on in the future.

 

 

the age of this super american is over.

© 2011 delapruch


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delapruch
delapruch

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Bio: The writer we call delapruch has been writing since infancy. His first piece was scrawled on the inside of his mother’s womb. Long since published, the rights now reside in the hands o.. more..