New DC Creations: Golden Eagle 2

This is a sketch I did for a retroactively added

DC Comics character for some fan fiction

I'm doing (Well, honestly, it was originally a

character I created for a proposal to DC for

a 'Titans West' series, which was soundly rejected

out of hand, but, moot point since

that world is gone now!)

She's a fellow orphan friend of Charlie's that

was taken in by the Amazons on Paradise Island

and is a surrogate sister of the original Golden

Eagle, merging his costume theme with Amazonian

weaponry and armor! (Yes--story there!)

 (In this world, the original was never killed

and never an evil alien spy, etc. Blurg!)

For more on the DC Retro Project (DC '78)

go to www.ComicsMashUp.blogspot.com

art copyright 2013 Robert Sayre II

Stuck in the Middle With Eww!

I am to the point

    (have I been here before?)

of reduction

I am now

but reduced to...

unknown;

         simply

                    something less than...

different from

what was

No longer is there

even a point of reference

so much disappointment--

      so much of me

               dissipated

all good extracted

   boiled off

      in rages, orgasms, loving expressions

and the like

(Thumbs up!)

I watch some images

like old movies

        easy and natural,

 A smile beckons

         without prompting

....their cascade familiar enough

to draw forth longing

Once, we--

      for there were once others,

         like me, bonded together,

            storm-sheltered

               and similarity-supported,

     greater

         than our mere components...

We held sessions

     akin to salons,

speaking effortlessly of philosophy,

    hands gravitating to belt buckles

         and bra straps

              effortlessly,

                    thoughtlessly

We conjured mystery

      (where perhaps none existed)

and spoke of cosmos

   and romance

      and humanity

   as well as comics and cops and cocks

(Lest you think us highbrow

   when even at our most pretentious

       we knew that to be a lie!)

Now

   I am surrounded;

       by talk of dinner plans

        and medicine-taking

           and neighbors' comings and goings,

endless recycled unpleasantries,

    and only more of same

       to look forward to

You become the character

     of those you

          surround yourself with

(funny how close 'surround'

     and 'surrender' seem)

    

Unflatteringly enough,

      unsatisfyingly enough,

and,

    as me,

unchanging.

Just Sayin'

Contrary

End Trails



"End Trails" copyright 2013 Robert Sayre II, Georgia Unity



"Spirit" (antiqued)



copyright 2013 Robert Sayre II, Georgia Unity



Pariah Be A Gift

"Pariah be a Gift"

(On Getting by in the Deep South on Bad Days

and

The Past Ain't All That Diff'rnet from What We Gots Now)

Ain't nowhere I belong

Nor nobody who own me

Mean to say, nobody who know me

Seem to be the same thing

least as I can tell

Used to think

that all was just me

but the more folks I see

the more I reckon

it's all our lot

People's hushed mouthing,

always staring, finger waggin,

no chance to raise up--

nobody seem to notice you--

at the same time!

But all that there

gots a tendency to be

something else all together

from what folks means it to be

Dough gotta get beat

'fore it can rise

(the best bread ta me

is hard on the outside

soft on the ins)

Clay gotta burn

'fore that pot harden

People gotta be broke

to put themselves together

T'aint right nor wrong

nor'n  fair ors unfair

jus' is the way it is

flowing and sliding

unending

Bein' poor don't scare me

and not embarrassed by it none

either

Fat, ugly to other'ins, hungry

all that I gots a handle on

I is this here

I ain't dem

but I is me

Dis what I am

That's good enough fer me

an' others

ain't to be worried over

Cuz there ain't nowhere I belong

nor no one who own me

I is the one avoided

and disrespect like

and I think very much

I prefer it dat way

***

Truth In Indoctrination

copyright 2013 Robert Sayre II

A.S.S.S.E.S. Movie Poster

copyright 2013 Robert Sayre II