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Batman should have stopped this thing.<\/div>\n
I’m sure he heard the rumors.<\/div>\n
He could have put on his bat ring.<\/div>\n
I’ve heard that cured some tumors.<\/div>\n
And Superman, those x-ray eyes,<\/div>\n
did they not see Wuhan?<\/div>\n
His explanation, no surprise,<\/div>\n
he’d just gone to the john.<\/div>\n
The Flash could have been way out front<\/div>\n
and stopped contamination.<\/div>\n
But he was busy making cards<\/div>\n
for his kids’ education.<\/div>\n
While Spiderman was mending webs<\/div>\n
and texting Mary Jane,<\/div>\n
he could have protected New York.<\/div>\n
I mean, it’s just insane.<\/div>\n
And where was Hulk, the big green jock?<\/div>\n
He’s spent some time in labs.<\/div>\n
No, he was working ’round the clock<\/div>\n
on building up his abs.<\/div>\n
Seems Wonder Woman could have been<\/div>\n
the world’s heroic nurse.<\/div>\n
But now she’ll use her see-through plane<\/div>\n
as temporary hearse.<\/div>\n
If we can’t trust our super heroes<\/div>\n
to defeat mere germs,<\/div>\n
we’ve got to change some ones and zeroes,<\/div>\n
rearrange their terms.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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