Hero
I did not see the one
where the hero lost
and the villain stole the show;
must’ve aired on a Tuesday;
must’ve fallen asleep on the sofa
with a bag of Tostitos and cheese dip.
All the same,
a friend told me the end:
“He goes out with bang!
Levels three city blocks—
Not bad, a little long.”
Must’ve been a joke
because the hero never dies,
at least not really.
First published in Soul Poetry, Prose, and Arts Magazine, August 2025.
Sean Ferrier-Watson has pieces published or forthcoming in Lovecraftiana, Discretionary Love, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Better Than Starbucks, The Avalon Literary Review, Hellbound Books, and Illumen. He was a finalist in Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest. His book The Children’s Ghost Story in America was published by McFarland in 2017. Follow him at www.seanferrierwatson.com.
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