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Competition

Bad romance

1 December 2018

9:00 AM

1 December 2018

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3076 you were invited to submit seriously misguided love poems.

You seemed to embrace this task especially wholeheartedly, and I admired your powers of invention in finding so many ways of making my toes curl. Even Brexit got a look-in: ‘Let me be your Brexit backstop/ I will never set you free…’ (Ian Barker).

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