NaPoWriMo #20: “A Different Kind of Hero”

Superman’s hooked on Super Glue
And Batman wears a mask,
Robin wears tan tights to fight crime;
“The boy wonder?” I hear you ask.

Spider man lives on Super flies,
Batgirl likes leather and chains,
Aqua-man drinks us under the table
The Fantastic Four-play adult games.

But of all these comic heroes,
Only one fought corporate crime,
It was Crackers, the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken
From Michael Moore’s bright mind.

Cracker’s couldn’t fly like an eagle,
Bend steel, or have x-ray vision,
He was no Ali with boxing skills,
But sought out corporate derision.

Inside sky scrapers across the U.S,
Crackers showed up to expose,
Criminal minds of millionaires
In boardrooms dark and closed.

Corporate polluters, union busters,
Embezzlers of pension funds,
These are the villains in Cracker’s world,
That need to be expunged.

He was a star for a season or two
And gave people lots of hope,
That criminal minds should be behind
Bars where they can cope.

Cracker’s work seems never done,
But in Crackers we should trust,
That we should all be educated
With Crackers inside of us.