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me am not ride with bizarro supermanSomewhere in mid-Pennsylvania after midnight,
I would stop trying to sleep and turn on the small round reading light above my head
to reread my comic book - Bizarro Superman!
Bizarro, clad in a brightly colored imitation of Superman’s costume, had a child’s backward logic and a syntax to match. “me am not Bizarro No. 1-Me am not alone”
In my favorite story he flew far away from earth to build a world of his own -
A square approximation of earth - that he populated with people he created – imperfect clones of Superman’s friends.
You have to admire those kind of problem solving skills-that sort of creativity - fashioning his own perfectly imperfect place in a universe that didn’t seem to want him in it.
Then I would turn the light off and watch city after city of street lights and shadows
Roll through my blank reflection on the window
until an over-amplified unintelligible mumble alerted us that we would be stopping soon - (was that Filadelglia, Algluna, or Blogstown?)
We would pull into a bus station or rest stop full of light and strangers
where I would eat a piece of Boston Crème pie,
and buy another comic book.
Then Bizarro and I would get back on the bus
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I asked one of my students, Cameron, to do an illustration of Bizarro Superman for me, to go with my poem “me am not ride with Bizarro Superman” on my poetry bog This was his final product. Doesn’t work with the poem - but Not Bad eh? If you like it I will pas along your praise.
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So many iterations and layers. Way more complicated than it looks, Finally arriving at this- don’t ask, I cant explain. I’d love to hear what you think it means - I could probably use a little psychoanalysis - preferably Jungian.
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P’Gell by Will Eisner
Eisner had a cinematographers understanding of composition and shadow.
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She never had so sweet a changeling.
Arthur Rackham, from A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, London, New York, 1908.
(Source: archive.org)
(via pelz)
