Maybe I am becoming older,
but I don’t think Batman
is a very good superhero. C’mon,
a billionaire that dresses up
in high-tech armor to punch
petty criminals and
mentally unstable individuals?
Holy unviable vigilante
vanity project, Batman!
Would we feel safer if Jeff Bezos
spent his nights perched
atop a building surveying
Seattle for street crime?
Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse
workers skip bathroom breaks,
pee in Gatorade bottles
to keep up with Christmas orders.
Holy sweatshop working
conditions, Bezos man!
Maybe when I was younger,
I enjoyed the idea of
Batman-style vigilante-ism—or
the notion of a benevolent billionaire.
Crime could be stopped
if enough criminals were KO’d
by a rich kid who witnessed
his parents being gunned down,
Poverty could be alleviated
by charitable missions
concocted from caves built
underneath family manors.
Holy misdirected campaign on
crime and poverty, bat-Marxist!
Just saying, I don’t think
Bruce Wayne is the working-class
hero that we need nowadays.
