The Volatile Man

29/08/18

Come, come and see, the Volatile Man!

See this monster, not for a fortune! but for a thin dime!

A bizarre, horrible and pathetic mutant

With nothing more than skin combustant

Have you ever been with a man who sleeps with a fire extinguisher under his pillow?

This man does

Because you’ll make him burn

With almost anything

An old memory

A cold caress

A snub

And he’ll consume himself

He’ll combust and blaze

Don’t blame yourself

Wind cannot even touch him without making him explode

And into smithereens he goes again

Thousands of little charcoal pieces float in the air

Just to rearrange again

Into a humanoid form

His genes, heavily loaded with napalm

Highly reactant

So reactant his skin cannot even tolerate the touch of a voice

He is not a lover, but an arsonist.

As he walks, he leaves a trace of ash,

for he burns his own feelings.

Please burning man

Stop burning

You’ve already extinguished everything you love

Carbonized and ultimately pulverized every single thing you adored.

Locked in his faulty body

Erupting in flames and disrupting life around him

Erradicating life at his touch

He will consider asphyxia 

Come and see him!

The 27,000,000° Fahrenheit Idiot!

The Incendiary Moron!

The Exothermic Bastard!

He attempted to suffocate his flames

Threw himself into a swimming pool

The chlorinated water boiled

And the chlorine turned gaseous

Intoxicating the whole neighborhood

And he was still burning

Out of despair he cried

Only to see his tears evaporate as they poured

Come and see him

Buy a souvenir

Take a photo

But don’t you dare to touch him

Julio Ortiz