Copyright Urban Mole 2016 Not, as the title might suggest, because he is a narcissistic arse who seeks to demoralise his foes and shame his friends one undulation at a time. His costume is a construct designed to closely adhere to the physical representation of the Platonic Form that Superman…
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kiki bouba, Copyright Urban Mole 2016 I read a German children's book on woods and woodland creatures recently, and found myself stuck on page fifteen saying "hohl, hohl, hohl" like a Danish Santa Claus. It means hollow, and it makes hollow when you say it. Hohl. It's connected to words…
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Copyright Urban Mole 2016 I was on the train recently, staring at the rails and the blur of sleepers between. If I very quickly moved my eyes against the direction of travel, I caught a glimpse of an individual sleeper and its neighbours; I was able to slow the flow…
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Copyright: Faber & Faber A Kill's power is in its fifteenth line, in the only spoken text of the poem: ``It's a boy!'' It's a fulcrum and it prises the perception of a brutal, lingering death to show a birth. But it's no gift.
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