Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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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1 Comments:

At Tuesday, April 23, 2024 8:01:00 PM, Blogger Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

Oh, I too loved Dick Tracey when I was very young (I think I might find his attitudes questionable now) and I too had to sneak my forbidden comics into the house! Thanks for the reminder.

 

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