BECAUSE, BECAUSE BIKERS
                                     A Poem
                                 By Otis Bender

          They stole the Bender Shaft from my labs, 
          the Butterfly Boys.
          When I try to sleep at night, 
          I dream of riding hard machines, headlights flaring
          Searching for a point of intersection....
          Once the flames catch, the Shaft will drive them higher.

          The Old Magician prophesied it first:  the Overman
          Who comes out of the stolen Shaft.
          The bikers will all become Lizard-things,
          And not even Superman will be able to stop them
          Because, because they have stolen the evolution catalyst
          while Spiderman waits in the Cosmicomic.
          and Superman cannot live among those Marvels.

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