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Why I read comic books

Sean Lause

The cockroaches came down as if on strings,
my father said, as I hid inside
my monster comic. They dropped on your head,
wriggled down your back, plopped in your food,
when you had food in that damned tenement.
Chicago. 1934. At night the rats
were waltzing in the walls. Pound those walls, they---
scatter! Later you hear them gnawing at wires.
His Old Man surrendered. Beat it. Scrammed.
Gave wife and kids the air. His mother
moved them to Ohio. Died. She got out good.

My father stayed put. Never surrendered.
Built our house brick by brick, board by board.
Nailed. Sawed. The walls went up strong.
Not a rat or roach in sight. His dream.
I hid inside my monsters. Why?
Because if one wall sighed, my father twitched
a neck muscle, his head a ball turret.
Once, I left a pizza box in the sink.
He howled and gassed the whole house with home-
made poison that killed everything that crawled.
I watched his hands quiver like small animals.

Every night I would dream of cockroaches
approaching on tip-toe, rats shhhhhing
through the walls with fears and whispers.
So when I could not sleep, I’d sneak a
flashlight under the covers and read my
comic books, whose monsters I could merely
toss away.



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