THE GOOD GUY ALWAYS WINS
When I was a child of five
I was gifted a boy-toy
I’d don my hipster holster
And a felt hat
And go po-pow
At every stone, tree and friend.
I was the TV show good man
who always won the fight,
who always killed the bad boys
So I grew up the good guy
A man with a vision
A force to be reckoned with
The force destined to tackle the
Cataclysmic enemies of the universe
Destruction and annihilation of the enemy
Was my mission
The good man always wins
So I got myself a man’s toy
And staked the enemy out
I opened fire at random
To wipe the bad guys out
Because the good guy always wins
A. Jessie Michael is a retired Associate Professor of English from Malaysia. She has written short stories for online journals, local magazines and newspapers. She has published an anthology of short stories Snapshots, with two other writers and most recently her own anthology The Madman and Other Stories (2016).
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