Emptiness Man

memory slower than virtue

empathy rambles in his veins

more erect than a triangle...

　

able to leap tall people

after several tries (from knocking them over)

　

[an army of angels lip-synching to 'Hallelujah - because they're mutes]

faster than a bullet train to

nothing new to troll

spends most his days as medium-managed

Joris Gluefunct, but on occasion,

slipping into port-o-potties

wrestling his clothes down, he dons

a neoprene semi-gothic fetishist’s dream...

and becomes "Emptiness"

emerging, sucks the life out of all criminals

(and we are all criminals)

desperate to impress Goya, the painter,

though he's been dead for many a year...

that's true love

armed with only superpowers he avenges where others a

　

surrounded by asphalt and concrete

you'll often find him in some forest

confessing to trees...

or, as his other self, deriding the fall of democracy

in articles no one reads, which he hasn't written

there is always the choice of being the son of God...

but he considers that choice a wasteland, and demurs

he is, after all, the superheroes' superhero

one E away from eternal forgiveness

for every act he's accused of –

including the deaths of women and children.