What would Zorro do?

Sitting in the hairdressers' chair on the last Friday of summer

I refuse the black mask and flat-brimmed hat

but allow myself to be reverse wrapped in Zorro’s black cape -

the many mirrored reflections of my fellow caped crusaders reproach me,

forcing me to wonder what the masked avenger would make of it all.

 

Perhaps El Zorro would fall into a slough of despond,

despairing at the absence of waving swords and cracking bullwhips,

or perhaps he would get excited by the technologies of the future,

and (after carving a “Z” in the wall) gallop off into the night

to find an adult education class in

“how to use chemicals, heat and aluminium foil”.

 

I don’t know about my caped companions but I’m betting

El Zorro would choose night classes over self imposed exile in the marshlands,

I can imagine him swashbuckling through the glass doors of the salon,

loudly proclaiming that he has come to join the fight

against the (newly imagined) injustices of the 21^st century -

age, desire, ambition.

Comments

[early years resources sam]

Made me smile. Thank you :)

[Artichoke]

Is a pleasure early years resources sam - celebrating the small stuff of each day (with verse that should probably never leave the back of the envelope it was scrawled on) makes me smile too. Am also thinking I should change my name - "early years resources sam" has far more presence than Pam

[Sunshine Coast Bookkeeping]

This is rather amusing. It made me think of the movie Kate and Leopold. It would be interesting to see Zorro’s puzzled expression in figuring out the gadgets in this century. Eager to read more of your poetic humor.