Burying Superman
“Never give an inch boy,”
a drunken uncle once told me.
It sounded like a spell
to ward off vicious dogs, rabid priests;
any jackass or villain with crooked eyes.
Superman is a plastic 3-inch-high figure,
a talisman I keep in my jeans pocket.
Make an incision into an inch,
divide the scar
fill up the razor thin gash
with salt from secret tears.
Eat a broken tooth.
An inch was always too deep for superman,
too high to withstand.
The ‘inch’ is an alligator 10 miles long.
At night when no one is looking -
bury superman.
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