{"id":153,"date":"2011-01-31T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=153"},"modified":"2011-01-31T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:56:00","slug":"joanne-limburg-envies-heroes-sylar-and-elle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joanne-limburg-envies-heroes-sylar-and-elle\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Limburg envies Heroes' Sylar and Elle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sylar and Elle <\/span> <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Into the midst of things more real<\/span>
and personal, creep Sylar and Elle.<\/span>
She is shaking with grief and rage;<\/span>
he wants to know if he can feel<\/span>
 <\/span>
for someone else, he covets pain.<\/span>
So he approaches her, this girl<\/span>
whose father he scalped some episodes back,<\/span>
and she cries <\/span>You!<\/span> and zaps him. And again.<\/span>
 <\/span>
I\u2019ll kill you!<\/span> Zap! She hurls blue lightning<\/span>
from her palms, it hits him dead<\/span>
in the chest, and he falls back, his arms<\/span>
spread wide, a T-shaped allusion to something \u2013<\/span>
 <\/span>
make that \u2018someone\u2019 –  the viewers know,<\/span>
and maybe love, and maybe pray to.<\/span>
Then, in case you hadn\u2019t got it,<\/span>
he gets up.  He has no wounds to show<\/span>
 <\/span>
but he looks chastened, and his shirt\u2019s<\/span>
in charcoaled tatters. <\/span>I understand<\/span>,<\/span>
he coos. <\/span>You hate me. Let me have it:<\/span>
I can take it<\/span>.  She slings her hurts<\/span>
 <\/span>
again. Again. The shirt is gone<\/span>
completely. His body twitches back<\/span>
to life, as we expect. He\u2019s keeping<\/span>
calm. He\u2019s kept his trousers on.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Elle\u2019s given up, she\u2019s emptied<\/span>
of her hate.  His work complete,<\/span>
Sylar crawls to her, the blue<\/span>
sparks in his hands, all mended,<\/span>
 <\/span>
and they laugh. I never want<\/span>
the scene to end, but it must.<\/span>
I want to do what Elle does, give it<\/span>
all to Sylar, but I can\u2019t.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
*Joanne Limburg<\/a><\/span> has published two books of poetry with Bloodaxe, <\/span>Femenismo<\/span> (2000) and <\/span>Paraphernalia<\/span> (2007), which was a PBS Recommendation. <\/span>The Woman Who Thought Too Much<\/span><\/a>, a memoir about anxiety, OCD and poetry, came out last year. <\/span>

This poem first appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review last year.<\/span>
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Sylar and Elle    Into the midst of things more realand personal, creep Sylar and Elle.She is shaking with grief and rage;he wants to know if he can feel for someone else, he covets pain.So he approaches her, this girlwhose father he scalped some episodes back,and she cries You! and zaps him. And again. I\u2019ll kill you! Zap! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}