Martian Manhunter is on
the cusp
of a pretty serious
nervous breakdown,
skull in a garlic press
and eyes about
to blast off like veiny
cannonballs.
Not Batman or Superman
or Spiderman
or Wolverine or like
not even fucking
Aquaman, people even
know who that
asshole is, is the
point, Jesus Christ
we get it already.
Maybe if he had a definite
article, “THE Martian
Manhunter”?
Maybe he already does
have one, he forgets,
there's no written
record to consult anyway,
it's flickering like
everything does these days,
it really isn’t easy
being green, or invisible,
especially when you
have brain cancer,
could be, it sure feels
like it, unless he’s just
bored, depressed in
this apartment,
this sepulcher of
newspaper and old
jizzed-upon tissues
(space jizz) and pop art.
And like, that ice
pick, last night he woke up at 4:27
and he had turned
invisible, he’s not even
controlling it anymore,
basically, and so one day
he will inadvertently
slip into the wallpaper
permanently, and nobody
will even notice,
but he can fly, damn
it, he’s got super strength
and yeah, fire is his
weakness, turns him into
a mound of skin flakes
and bacon and teeth,
but it’s not like you’d
do any better in a fire,
that's for sure, and can you cut
the guy a break,
can you just cut the
fucking guy a break already?
I know who Aquaman is.
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I know who Paul McCartney is.
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