In Competition No. 3139 you were invited to submit a four-line verse epitaph for a well-known person, living or dead.
There was lots of waspish wit on show this week, often deployed at the expense of our elected representatives. Many entries ran along similar lines to this one, from Steve Baldock, though not all of them took the Donald as their subject:
DonaldTrump.
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