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Spectator Competition: Stockpiling

1 March 2025

9:00 AM

1 March 2025

9:00 AM

For Competition 3388 you were invited to submit a poem written from the point of view of a prepper.

While the topic of this challenge was a bit of a downer, the standard of your poems – inventive, sad and funny – was cheering. I was sorry not to be able to fit in Chris O’Carroll’s nod to the Beatles: ‘We’re the Ardent Preppers’ Chance Stockpile Band…’ and David Silverman’s twist on Masefield’s Cargoes:

Wrinkle-cream of Nivea on discount offer:

Packed, for life on sunny Exoplanet 59,

With box sets of Homeland,

Line of Duty,

Game of Thrones and Last of the Summer Wine.

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