Lucy Vickery

Competition No. 2664: In two minds

Lucy Vickery presents the latest competition

issue 18 September 2010

In Competition 2664 you were invited to submit a dialogue, in verse or prose, between two parts of yourself at odds with one another.

As usual, verse entries vastly outnumbered prose ones. In an excellent field, Brian Murdoch, Adrian Fry, Bill Greenwell and Fergus Pickering stood out. Basil Ransome-Davies scoops the bonus fiver for a hilarious exchange between id and superego.

This is your superego calling,
Who finds your conduct quite appalling.
do da dirty do da sin
dump da pussy in da bin


To raise us from the primal swamp
We must curtail the instinct’s romp.
why dont we do it in da road
up ya bum ya moral code


A sense of civic duty needs
To govern all our words and deeds.
when da neighbour make me sick
whack him with a great big stick


A man is not a mindless clam:
‘I cogitate, therefore I am.

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