Hometown Hero: Chapter 13

The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic

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Hometown Hero: Chapter 13

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Down a street of frowzy-fronted buildings
hobbled he, Robert Hunger, now erect
on bamboo crutches, his plaster-cruft leg
he swung like a dragging anchor, and mused:
How much easier to fly, or venture
imperviously to earthly mishap,
like angels, of ether’al flesh and wi…