Who would pay for Superman’s blood?
What would it be worth?
If you injected yourself with it
what would you become?
Would you be super …
or more …?
What would you pay for Superman’s blood?

What did Superman pay for his blood?
Taken from his family, world, all he never knew
what is the cost of Superman’s blood?
Does being Superman pay for what he is not?
Is it better he knows or doesn’t know what he lost?

Is Superman’s ignorance his greatest power?
What makes him invulnerable?
Knowing or never knowing
remembering or nothing to remember?
Does he know we always remake the past
because of the beliefs and desires of our ancestors?
Does he feel the river of what came before him
carve the world beneath it with rivers, seas, oceans
create the land where all were super?

Inheritance

What child refuses the gifts of his parents?
What child has so little love for his parents he abandons them
and replaces them with aliens?
What child would believe it was all a mistake
he was a mistake?
How could he understand?
He who could never forget anything
except what he didn’t know, never knew.
He who has so much more than any one before
Who is the man that says I will not be king?