KAL-EL AGONISTES
Truly, it would only be perfectly beautiful, a perfect piece of art, if one single
life-form escaped to remember, to mourn, to despair.
- Neil Gaiman, “The Heart of a Star”, The Sandman: Endless Nights (2003)
- Neil Gaiman, “The Heart of a Star”, The Sandman: Endless Nights (2003)
Spit-curled demigod in tights
tinted like the Stars and Stripes,
red as Rao’s sanguine light,
blue for Earth’s sky interlude,
so much melancholia imbued.
Your Fortress of cold Solitude;
Antarctic Merzbau, Mausoleum,
Lichtdom. Nietzsche’s feverdream,
Übermenschen parents deem
cast from Krypton’s antiseptic,
Art Deco paradise to hectic
Metropolis. Be analytic:
do you recall that lost childhood
half-forgotten past-tense world
long since destroyed,
green glowing fragments fatal,
of home, your Achilles heel.
O Superman. How does that feel?
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