I don’t remember Voltes V
ever having trouble with it.
A beast fighter attacks
and they begin the dance —
the machine hero takes some beating
a couple of blows,
it is wrestled to the ground,
a chain runs a current
gets the team in pain,
But the earth defender recovers,
chain knuckles, Voltes Bazooka,
the Ultra Electro Magnetic Top is unleashed
taking from the skills of Mark Gordon,
the orphan cowboy with the obscure past,
the snake like belt turns
into a yo-yo string and a whip
with spinning tops that
explode on impact.
It never fails
this zippy gadget
doesn't stop
the way a cellphone drops a connection
or an ATM goes offline
and debits your money
and eats your card,
or the LRT freezes on track
or your car gets a flat tire.
And though the Voltes V story
fails not to inspire
it's never the same
when you gear up for work
and a thing conks out
in a third world kind of way
and you lose or
(almost) die.
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