Third Eye

by Jerry Robinson

We got away at 2 a.m./ I wanted to begin with the shore/ A blinding glory towards the hills/ White electric light/ Bursting from the seams/ Fifty dollars an acre where/ The body curls with enjoyment/ Chimneys raining down sparks/ Clothed in silken/ Golden/ Paris-made/ Colorless in comparison/ Crippled though/ No one is killed/ In Europe they were gods/ Grandeurs in long vanished societies/ Its first exhibition/ Would fall upon and make merciless/ Its last/ Kept alive in the South/ We find it filled with wordy, windy/ Eloquent romantics/ Grieved from their lips/ Of an ancient past/ At the end of twenty-one years/ We are still only thirty-five/ Given a sense of frailness/ Sticking about in magnolias and live oaks/ They bare a wildness/ Compressed between walls/ A peculiarly violent/ And unusual way/ Like a ship at sea/ A machine-made laugh/ Spilling from its river bondage/

65 pages, Paperback

About the author

Sherrill David Robinson, known as Jerry Robinson, was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He is best known as the co-creator of Robin and the Joker and for his work on behalf of creators' rights.
He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004.