Getting Ready Poem by Glen Kappy
Getting Ready
With images of flight
and smashing walls
and scaling heights
with Spiderman crawls—
in real or animation
from movies or TV
(modernizations
of the old mythologies) —
my growing son—
nearly five years—
hemmed by his cautions
held by his fears—
his brain all a-simmer
and ready to boil—
beating bad Bluto
and getting the goil—
gets himself ready
to take on the world.
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Bluto is Popeye's nemesis in the Popeye cartoons. Goil is a play on girl, for the girl to win in the cartoons in named Olive Oil.
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