Dick Tracy, hero in the Comics - a poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23

[My Dick Tracy 80 year old camera,
(vase behind) Bought mail order Chicago]

    Dick Tracy

A ten year old's hero 

Found out about him 

from a clandestine comic 

Dick Tracy, super detective 

Found the comic book 

at a cousin's home, fell 

in love with the 'dick' 

Cousin said, it is yours now 

Tucked it in his trousers 

his mom detested comic books 

At home he hid it in the 

hayloft away from Mom 

Could have been with his 

cigarettes, they too "found" 

Strange what an uncle keeps

in his glove compartment 

If you're not knowing of Dick 

Tracy, he was a plainclothes 

detective on the police force, 

solving the unsolvable crimes 

That was in the 1940s--soon  

more exciting things going on 

Like war, games, fighter planes 

and bombers, Marines and so on 

Then he found Dick Tracy again, 

In the comic strips from paper 

That too, now legal with Mom 

But lost interest anyway 

All was left is his Dick Tracy 

camera and some memories 

Click on picture for larger size viewing 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo, photocopy of (URL) on my computer from Bing search 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23 (URL)

where the writing prompt was "Super Heroes".  I am the 10-year-old boy in the writing--some readers will assume that but I wanted it way.

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