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TESSA CASTRO

N COMPETITION No 298 you were invited to write a poem called . It was a large and enjoyable postbag. I laughed at Fiona Clark's muffled train announcement of a capybara, which turned out to be a café-bar. But she remembered to keep her luggage with her at all times. Ian Nalder recalled luggage before the war ‘made as : ‘Stately leather steamer trunk from Louis Vuitton’. Robert Major mischievously rhymed upgrades and Hades. Commiserations to them and to Dorothy Pope, Peter Hollindale, Ann Drysdale, I White, Daphne Lester, Jenny Jones, Paul Holland, Katie Mallett and Sue Smalley, and congratulations to those printed below, each of whom wins £25, with the bonus prize of going to Terry Baldock.

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