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Com P E T Ition

No. 1229: Customer's curse Set by Jaspistos: A poem, please (maximum 16 lines), in the form of a curse called down by a customer on the head of someone pro- viding bad service.......

No. 1226: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked to expand a well-known nursery rhyme, limerick or clerihew in the style of a well- known poet. G. K. Chesterton's virtuoso variations......