Paul J Penton – Songwriter

Incognito- Daily Object Writing – Nov 25

Secret secrets, a cape and black shall swishing through a forest carried by thundering horses hooves. The mask of Zorro. Batman the caped crusader. The music from the TV show buzzes in my head, that electric guitar like a buzz-saw, red horns blaring on the landscape of imagination. Bruce Wayne in his day to day life reversing roles hding the cool suave rubber super hero. Superman in skin tight uniform, muscles bulging, tasting fresh air at 30,000. Faster than a speeding bullet, whispering death for villains doing dozens of dastardly deeds. His alter ego- Clark Kent- trips over his own tongue, surley it’s five feet long, a great slug disguising the super incognito super hero. All those super heroes with split their personalities, how do they stay sane- super will power?

I bet villains wish they could be more incognito; stepping into shadows, dissolving into walls,wearing a lightweight suit of lead to avoid X-Ray vision. But then what work would there be for a super hero? Are these old ‘super’ heroes manifestatitons of a frightrened nations personae from the fifties, from the edge of a cold war where failure was not an option and people needed something to believe in. Were they doing the bidding of the gangly government- incognito?