Where Are the Heroes?

The literature that this world offers

Is malignant, poisonous, and crude.

For those who put their literary treasures in coffers,

When they open a modern book the awakening is most likely rude.

Off-color language, vicious characterization

All combine for books filled with trash.

When an author seeks to achieve novelization

It’s more like they’re writing for a lecher’s secret stash.

Themes and style clash with the romantic view.

And plots hardly ever show a blip.

Where are the heroes who pursue

The stories beyond the news clip?

Popular authors pick up their pens to write.

But very few show that they’re worthy of the fight.