The Rainy Day Off

In a comic book sprawl
of rain beating down in
smudges on a car,
stereotypes smelted into
a spluttering pool of
lazy incompetence
draining down into
an inconvenient pool.
Two iron-branded
bearded men, looked
across the haze of the
comic world, surprised,
suspicions were left to
brood under raincoats.
Humanistic irony chose not to
intervene for human lives
have a price far too
popularly depreciated.
And so the white smudge
with the grey sprinkling
of smoke interwoven in
the watery translucence,
drove by the spots
suffering from light; as
one villainy replaced another.