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29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2875 you were invited to submit a poem about an unlikely aphrodisiac. Thanks are due to that legend of the comping world Stanley J. Sharpless, whose ‘In Praise of Cocoa — Cupid’s Nightcap’ gave me the idea for this challenge.

How confessional your entries were, who can say, but I liked Adrienne Parker’s account of an erotic encounter with a washing machine.

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