During a trip to the US, my family and I searched a local Goodwill for a bike to fix up—something my daughter could ride for the few weeks we’d be there. I experienced dissonant emotions. While I loved seeing her so joyful around the secondhand American relics, I was troubled by the day’s political news. These thoughts just sort of converged around some superhero tropes, and this poem came out the other side.
Ed Wade lives and writes in Hanoi, Vietnam. There, he lectures at RMIT University in the School of Communication & Design. He is currently earning his MFA in Creative Writing at University of Texas at El Paso. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The Evening Street Review, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, and elsewhere.
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