A snippet of a clipping of a newspaper interview on a young comedian’s corkboard, underlined and encircled in red pen by Whaitiri Tua-Warbrick

(After ‘The Smallest Superhero in the World’ by Kai, aged 7)

–and it’s no small irony,” said Mr Molecular

after sipping from his coffee cup

and softly grinning,

reminiscing,

“that my mother took my father’s name,

when her maiden name was Biggs—