Saturday, November 24, 2018



                                             I Lost My Marbles Comic Books 

                                                               Presents

                                 Baked Alaska: The Lighter Side Of Solar Flares

                                                           Produced By

                                      Hobo With A Library Card: The Movie

        Written & Directed By A Brain Damaged Puerto Rican From The South Bronx
                                 Who Dreams Of Getting Revenge By Living Well

                                                   “And The Oscar goes to…”

To whom it may concern a thousand years in the future.

I met a girl from another world far from the city of the world.

The moment I saw her walk into a West Village supermarket I saw an aura around her that made me feel I’ve met her in another life. She was lead by the hand by a strange little girl dressed in a petticoat and blue bonnet as if she came to life from a package of margarine.  It was a brutal cold that gripped New Yorkers in the season I arrived on Earth. It gave way the next day to spring when I carried flowers among Villagers and the rest of the state suffering wonderfully from cabin fever. People crowded streets in their shorts, walking dogs, riding skateboards and playing guitars in Washington Square Park.

Why I Hate My Life In The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

I lost memories after punches to the back of my head at the university. The cowardly attack was my first encounter with a Neo Nazi who was a mediocre painter.

I woke up a roaring train car devoid of life except for a man in a black hood who sat opposite me. It felt like rigor mortis had set in when I tried to move my fingers.

The man looked up with cat yellow eyes and asked wistfully if I had missed my stop.

I broke free to pry the doors open as the train went deeper under a dark river.

Years later, I dreamed of being naked under a tree in front of rolling field of golden wheat while wedding bells rang in the distance. I woke up to reach for a landline phone. A voice said to turn on the TV. The date of that morning was 9/11. It was the birthday of the woman whom with I experienced unselfish love that made me see magic in life.

She had never experienced snow. I promised her a benevolent storm as went down into the subway. We came out to a near white out over Queens and the rest of the city.

We played like children until we fell together on virgin snow.

I thought about her from my dorm room at NYU.

I woke up to an intense light on Sunday. The city was buried under a blizzard on February 14. I walked past sanitation trucks plowing snow into mountains. I fell in love with computers at the lab and wanted to switch from art to algorithms.

Then I received a letter from her. She was crazy in love with me and wanted us to marry.

Enter The Dorm Nazi. 

So much data flooded my damaged brain all I can think of was what is the point to remember what I have lost in The City Of Rainbow Racism. She summoned forth the better angel of my nature. Without her, I saw the loss of true love is replaced by terror.

And there is so much terror across the nations of Earth.

Got hero?

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Stan Lee Was The Bruce Lee Of Comic Book Evolution

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I painted Marvel superheroes on a wall opposite our art room alongside classmates and our French/Irish All American teacher. My favorite superhero, among so many, was Namor, Prince Of Atlantis also known as The Submariner.


At the pool, I spent time underwater.

I was able to hold my breath longer than normal people and that amazed my classmates.

My childhood memories are fond ones of The Saint Mary’s Park Recreational Center in The South Bronx. All that was needed to make a great story was for Stan Lee to make a cameo appearance. 

Thanos took him.

If life is like a movie, humans should get a sequel.

I walked on water to find Fabled Atlantis.

I pulled down my diver’s mask and went into a galaxy of alien life forms. I flew like an angel free from the abuse of a crime-ridden city. As oceans became second skin on my body, it felt like I was dreaming deep into my subconscious mind upon breaking the surface for air and seeing the faraway shores of The French Riviera of The Bronx called Orchard Beach. The people were bright spots of color on golden sands. I went back into waters relaxing as the first time I heard The Blue Danube in a film mediation on the end result of human evolution. While weightless, a thought entered my mind.

Who’s going to take care of my disabled mother if I leave for the future?

Add my tears to the Seven Seas.

I’ll find Atlantis one day. 

I related to Namor because he was a hybrid American. Both our fathers were white. His mother was a blue skin princess and my mother was brown skinned. His underwater kingdom was polluted by radioactive waste dumped by an American corporation while The South Bronx looked like terrorists dropped an atomic bomb.

Namor lost his memories and became homeless.

I too lost memories from a cowardly attack by a Neo Nazi at school.

Homelessness Made Easy For Dummies by Danny Aponte, sixth grader at P.S 161

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