It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait; it's only a poem that someone wadded up and tossed in the air

[ninanevermore]

There is a story behind this one.  I can't remember the whole thread on her discussion group, but my cousin (with her tongue in her cheek) asked for a poem about the sexuality of Superman, and I wrote this to tease her.  If I were a geek girl, I would have called this "Red Kryptonite" or something, but I'm not one of my cousin's geek friends and I'm not going to call it that.  My point is not that I like bad boys, per se, but that I like men who are at least a little bit complicated.  I always thought Superman was a little too nice for my tastes.  That's all.



Man of Steel

 

I’ve never wanted Superman,

neither dressed as Clark Kent

in his button-down suit,

nor flying through the air

in skin-tight spandex;

he makes me feel dirty,

what with all his moral

and physical perfection.

 

To make me desire

his steely manliness,

I have to picture him drunk;

I have to see him in Vegas

picking up cars to impress

and pick up sleazy woman;

I have to imagine him

cleaning up in a bar fight

and mopping the floor with

hapless yahoos that thought

a guy dressed like that

would be an easy mark;

I have to see him struggling

with the temptation

for brutal world domination

because he knows he could pull it off

and no one could stop him.

 

I want his Kryptonite

to be his humanity,

I want the boy scout in the red cape

to have baser instincts to give in to –

 

then and only then

would I want to slip into a phone booth

to help him out of that gray suit

and the red tights underneath it.

 

 

- Nina E. Erickson

November 14, 2006

(c) 2007

Comments

cool

[regatomic.livejournal.com]

i like it,..:)

Re: cool

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

That's only because you really are a bad boy. ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Wow...

I love it!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

The sad truth is, Superman would have to be very, very drunk to slip into a phone booth with the likes of me...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that :P

[mugglemomjsw.livejournal.com]

hee-hee, I totally know what you mean!! He IS a bit too perfect to be desirable. I won't go into detail as to what I thought of b/c I'm a dirty girl. *cackle*

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

However, if he really did look like Tom Welling (who plays him on Smallville), I might could forgive him for being too nice, and might enjoy the challenge of corrupting him a little.

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[mugglemomjsw.livejournal.com]

Ol' Tom could easily be turned to our side... He's such a hottie!!

And talking about hotties made me use my 'hot' picture of Brendon from Panic! at the Disco.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

*swoons*

[aymen.livejournal.com]

I love it! :)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Thanks. ^_^

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

^_^

[bettybaker.livejournal.com]

That's why Batman is far, far sexier that Superman, although I will echo the sentiments of someone above who mentioned that corrupting Superman could be fun. ;)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but only if he looks like Tom Welling. ;)

[hermes-wade.livejournal.com]

Yep, Superman's perfection works against him sometimes, which is why he's become more human as the character has evolved in recent years.

[hermes-wade.livejournal.com]

Love the poem, BTW. :)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Wade. ^_^