Captain the Other America

 
Word, if CRISPR ever yields us a for real Captain America to bear? / The powers that be will prolly endeavor to leave him there / Frozen in ice / While we’re holding on in despair / Coldest nights / Like what unfolds doesn’t light up a flare / A fuzzy care / Buzzing off a cypher’s dare / ‘Cause that’s always a’ight / The once or dozen thrice / Times I used the literary device / To put a surgical slice / On acerbic grown up children / For the shit they were flipping / Just waited for them to be slipping / Before making sport of ‘em / Cutting short the lore within / Whispering prescriptions by Kevorkian / Morbid spin / Laugh or cringe / Adapt to the reversals of fortune / That catalyze us to revert to a new course to run / Learning from the Frog and the Scorpion / Every time I served a walking corpse / Like “Hey, word son. You and me are done.” / Some are undead and just don’t know it / Misled, upfront it shows to whit / When nothing’s slippery under their feet? / Yet the history repeats / Like nobody’s grown from it / Hard to share plans from barren land / Or be self aware without the heart to overstand / Handle your rancor lucidly / I do it by strangling my loose leaf / Epiphany telegrammed truly / “You’re always consistent with the listening but you never answer to me.” / Loki’s a ghostly prankster, so sue me / Making love to gangster movies / Hamster Hewey and the Gooey Kablooie