By night, they say, he scours
the streets incognito, fighting crime.
They say he can drive a tank
and that he’s highly trained in the art of kung fu.
Some say he was sent from the future
to purge the planet of evil; others claim
he’s a Viking reincarnated, summoned
from the past to avenge his kin.
They say he can shoot laser beams
from his eyeballs, that a single punch
can destroy a building, and that
he converses regularly with the gods in the sky.
They say all this, but I don’t know why;
he seems like an ordinary school caretaker to me.
