American Idol

I've always loved Batman

loved the way
the superheroes. . .you know,
the ones who had it easy
with their strength
and flight
and heat vision,

looked on in horror as he
popped some punk's arm out of joint
or
splintered up a jaw
just cuz he could
or
dangled some well-moneyed asshole from a rooftop
with the faintest ghost of a grin slashing over expansive chin

"He's too brutal!" they would moan

and that little grin would widen just one one millionth of a tenth of
a millimeter

Sometimes
you have to pity
those
coddled
righteous
gifted

who will never know all those
vicious
inventive
fun
little
measured
necessary
methods used by those among us who burn.