Gotham Night Drive

I Am Batman

Bright blue gauges in the batmobile

Shine on me as I sit behind the wheel.

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Brighter blues map these rainy streets.

I drive thru this lit Gotham city night

Like a Robocop on his beat.

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The Batman sign on my chest

I see thru the windshield,

In the sky, at the end of

A ray of hope in the night.

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Alfred in my ear, Catwoman on my mind

And in my inner ear, she speaks refined.

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I turn the wheel and hit the turbo.

The rain turns horizontal onto the windshield.

I eject up to the buildings and over, and as I glide

I spot Catwoman sitting in front of the Joker tied.

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Rolling onto the scene, rolling onto my feet,

Throwing the Batarang I cut her free

As I swing my cape over the Joker's eyes

So that he can not see.

After this sly dance-move like feat

I take Catwoman in my arms and flee,

Grappling over buildings until we're back

On these rainy Gotham city lit streets.

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She looks into my eyes thru my mask

And thru my mind into the past

And recalls the love we had and says,

"I love that I can always count on you, Bat."

And walks away sexy and black.

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I call the batmobile back to me.

I jump down into the only seat,

Behind the steering wheel.

Alfred asks me; "Was that Selina Kyle?"

I answer: "Indeed."

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Every head turns, they see the Batmobile.

They see Batman in the driver's seat, that's me.

There's more than what meets the eye,

But that's something only she can see.

Jan 9, 2021

Reviews

[Vertigo Cat1111]

I absolutely love this, and how it took us through Gotham! This felt just like watching an episode of one of the shows, and I have to say, the last few lines were brilliant. There's always something hidden about Batman, and I love how you interpreted that. The visuals are wonderful and how you get a taste of Batman and all of the others entirely without it being too much. I could see this as an opening poem for a full book of these!

[Audie G. Couch]

Very inventive. This is a great poem. I'm a big Batman fan, and the best part; for me, was the way you described the emotional connection between the two heroes.

[Amber Stone]

woahh! jesses! impressive, quiet original poem given the tricky source: batman, marvel's heroes, doesn't matter...great literary resources (rhymes and rhythm, impressive ones) and majestic formula and solution the 3 last lines! thank u for sharing and for ur recent review, Cyprian. (nice meeting you too). sincerely, Amber.

[barleygirl]

Grew up without TV, never watched Batman or related movies, nor read any comics, so I don't know anything about the Batman story. Coming to your poem as a blank slate, I found your storytelling to be fulsome & compelling, drawing me into your action scenes filled with character development & a splash of emotional involvement. I'm catching a hint of "blue revival" at the beginning, a prophesy, perhaps, of what changes are upcoming in this country politically. And I could see how avenging danger could apply to our current violent uprisings, already done & yet to come. But overall, the poem was just too well-done as an action clip, visualizing the sequences, rather than reading anything heavily political into this (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

Haven't seen you much here . . . hope you'll be posting more stuff.

[Betty Hermelee]

I very much enjoyed the ride you took on your Bat mobile !
This was like seeing a Batman movie, such fun and well written.
Best, Betty

[Coyote Poetry]

Hello Batman. I am more dead-pool. Little patience for dumb people. Hello my friend. I enjoyed the ride in your words. Thank you for sharing the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[poetgurl (Plainly Meg)]

This is cute and fun, I enjoyed this