Hometown Hero: Chapter 6
The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic
Harlie Radio image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
Hometown Hero: Chapter 6
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
They came to him with cap in hand, merchants
who shuffled their feet and daren’t raise their eyes:
the cream of Crummburg’s improvement district
downtown, where between the boards and burnt husks,
some weedy stores struggled to catch a break.
Of an ugly altercation the…