Arlow Cain is the name of a super hero I made up. You see, back around 1990 I was in the podunk town of Wellston, Ohio with the wife (now the X) and in-laws and out of boredom, purchased a Batman comic book from a corner grocer. This particular issue happened to be the one where Robin dies.... Mucho deniro. So I start collecting in hopes of landing some more goldmines. One day, I see where, as I remember it, Marvel And D.C. Comics teamed up and are offering to print a comic book of your superhero. Just send in a story line and the winner will get an issue printed. If it sells good they print it for a year and you get the royalties. I never sent mine in but did make an extensive story line about a college lab student, Arlow Cain, (taken from the word "arcane", which is to be mysterious, the desired character trait of our hero) getting hurt in a cliche lab accident and obtaining powers. Except they aren't powers at all. He just heals real fast. Still feels pain but heals immediately. Enter "Arlow Cain. The Indestructible Man" The winner, incedentally was I-man. And "I" stood for "Indestructible". Fast forward a coupla years to my first computer and chatting experience. My nick-name was "Squonk" .(I'll explain that one later). I was being my normal smart ass self. People that knew me had no problem with that but others didn't get me. Without the use of facial expressions and hand gestures I was coming off as a real a-hole and not knowing it. Till I started getting booted out. One day my hard drive crashed and after reformatting I used the monicker "Arlow Cain". CHIC MAGNET!!! I aint kiddin'. All of the sudden, I was interesting. It was the name. Fast forward to me at a Karaoke bar and the chic that runs the show takes a shining to me and wants my number. Me, not being interested, gives the fake name and address. Now every time it's my turn to sing, she calls for "Arlow" to come up. Hence, no one knows my given name unless I tell them. THE WORDS AND EXPLANATION TO "THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN". After my divorce (and the Karaoke incident) I began to see a parallel between becoming a super hero and making through and coming out the other side of a divorce. An epiphane of there-is-life-after-the-big-D kinda thing, if you will. So, for therapys sake I pen a tune. The 1st verse is for the t.v. show intro. (I dream big, folks). The rest is for the sake of drawing the correlation I spoke of and of course to flesh out a full tune.---- V1. Injured in the lab, I'm not the man I used to be. Once upon a time scars were easier to obtain. Just like any other man I would bleed. Just another off shoot of human seed. (Get it? seed? off-shoot? Nevermind). But then twisted fate went and altered the way that things were goin'. Now I can take a punch and not feel it. And tolerate a kick in the groin. Now I've never claimed to comprehend the master plan. I'm just Arlow Cain, The Indestructible Man. V2 I thought I wouldn't make it, conditioned to be average for years. Not knowing how to take it when overhearing disses and jeers. But now the wound heals as you draw the blade out. A bullet cannot penetrate cells. I've been meetin' other super-heros....seems to me we've all been through hell. One must have something to say. There's times you've got to make a stand. The name is Arlow Cain, The Indestructible Man. (Lead break) V3 Now this lab that I spoke of is no more than this present world. And this whole situation was brought on by the hand of a girl who I thought that with, I'd always be. You can imagine the suprise to me. So if anyone alse ever gets here...blind to evidence of the end. I'll lend an ear and a shoulder...always being there for a friend. I don't know why I'm this way. Just feel I owe my fellow man. The name is Arlow Cain. And there's no Lois Lane, no Vicki Vale there's just a hand, yeah yeah yeah, attached to Arlow Cain and I'm the Indestructible Man.
