Hometown Hero: Chapter 19
The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic
Harlie Radio image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
Hometown Hero: Chapter 19
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
The band was manned by local amateurs,
friendly strummers Walter once knew in school,
who had gone on to lives of tedium
and overwork, and nursed the self-fed flame
of their sovereign art at night or weekends,
or when other crippling duties, imposed
by a chosen life-pa…