The Nerd's Burden

This is a poem I write for English class. It's parody of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden.

The Nerd's Burden

Take up the Nerd's burden.

Bring fourth your light sabers.
Go bring your costumes

To wait for the movies premier.

To sit and debate

The powers of superheroes.
To annoy passersby

Half-embarrassed half longing to join.

Take up the Nerd's burden.

In patience you will wait

For a movie that follows the comic.

And show your pride and love

For Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh. 

A hundred time the mockery

Of those that not understand, "Phoenix Down"
And praise for those that do.

Take up the Nerd's burden.

The savage wars of stars.

Don't let others be fooled

The original trilogy is best.

When your goal is near

Someone won't have seen it.

And punish heathen blasphemy

About the special effects.

Take up the Nerd's burden.
No tyrannical rules of cool

But the rules of dork and spaz

More common than others admit.

The worlds you can not travel

The powers you cannot have

Go learn about them
And teach your knowledge to others.

Take up the Nerd's burden. 
Be done with mature days.

The acting your age in public.

the wearing of common clothing.

Come now and wear your costumes

To school, work and the mall.

Bright, colorful and eye catching

Ignore the judgement of your peers!

Beowulf Vs. Dragon Ball

WARNING: Contains an incredible amount of nerd!

Beowulf is one of the more famous epic heroes. At the beginning of the epic poem Beowulf is in his youth. He has incredible strength and fighting skill. From the beginning he's got some pretty bad ass skills and doesn't really have to train much in order to beat the crap out of the giant monster, Grendel.

At the beginning of Dragon Ball, Goku is a tiny little kid that also kicks mega ass. When the series first starts out, Goku, is running all over the place beating the crap out of anything can find. Stuff like giant fish and dinosaurs. He even takes down a car when Bulma nearly runs over him. And he even survives being shot a few times. This kid is pretty much indestructible.

While Beowulf mostly uses his power of freakish strength to kick monster ass, he does so in order to help others. Goku does this too. More than a few times, Goku saves people by beating up some over powered monster/alien person. Beowulf has at least got a whole army of solders to help him out if he needs it. Even if it's just to use as monster bait. Goku on the other hand only has a few random and mostly useless friends that he travels with and rescues often.

Basically everything that happens in the middle of Beowulf's life was deemed as so uneventful that no one cared enough to write it down.The last part of Beowulf is when he's old and wise and some huge ass dragon decides it's a good idea to attack Geatland (Beowulf's country). Beowulf of course has to go and kill this thing, but rather than kick it's ass by himself he tries to enlist the help of his men. His men basically run away like a flock of pigeons and he gets injured then dies after he defeats the monstrous beast.

Dragon Ball Z shows Goku as grown up. He's no longer this tiny little completely oblivious kid. He actually knows what's going on in the world. Goku gets a few more bad ass friends than he previously had and actually works with the to kick some ass, but still does most of it by himself. At some point Goku is killed by one of the many bad guys he fights, but manages to fight his way back to life.

Pretty much both Beowulf and Goku are the perfect heroes, with super strength and fighting skill. They use these extraordinary powers to kick bad guy butt in order to keep peace on earth.