A Band Will Ring This Daily Canticle

It's Fool's Gold to see the bright and wish it better.
I blame the Hasbro ads which made me want,
the x-ray glasses hidden in the back
of all those comics which saved the free world.

Superman was fallible I was certain
The green lantern was really my hero
For no-one liked him but he persevered
to do the good as he saw fit.

I wish I could make this song better,
for I'm a fool and glitter makes me look
for pans to sift the sands away,
superficial priceless grifter I.

And dancing now at edge of what is witnessed,
I grant that people will not see me cry,
a broadside bill announcing our inclusive
self-congratulatory worship sigh.

Stuart Andrew Marshall Tanner