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Competition

Threesome

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2918 you were invited to submit a poem composed entirely of three-letter words.

‘This is the most difficult comp you have set and has driven me mad!’ said Adrian Fry. It was a nasty assignment, I admit, but it could have been so much worse. Take John Fuller’s wonderful poem ‘The Kiss’: not only is it made up entirely of three-letter words; it also has three words per line in three three-line stanzas.

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