I'm sure you've asked yourself what a poem written by Vladimir #Nabokov inspired by the cover of a #Superman #comic book might sound like?
Well, the universe delivers!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/04/vladimir-nabokovs-superman-poem-published-for-the-first-time
In in, Clark Kent mourns his inability to have sex or children with Lois Lane, as his superpowers would injure or even kill her.
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(The New Yorker’s poetry editor Charles Pearce told Nabokov that “most of us appear to feel that many of our readers wouldn’t quite get it” and rejected to print it.)
