Marvel Knights Poetry Corner

Courtesy of Graeme McMillan and the comic blogosphere's poet laureate Ed Cunard comes this touching poem about love and mortality in the Marvel Universe:

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Parker Dreams

Oh God, I'm
sorry! The doctors
didn't understand how
it
happened! How you
had been poisoned
by radioactivity!
How your body
slowly
became riddled
with cancer!

I did.
I was...
I am
filled with
radioactive blood.
And not just blood.
Every fluid.
Touching me...
loving me ...
Loving me killed you!

Like a spider, crawling up
inside your body
and laying
a thousand eggs
of cancer...

I killed you.

[Original text by Kaare Andrews]

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