Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: poems for a qwerty keyboard

‘Across the qwerty keyboard of my heart/ Strike digits briskly spelling out desire…’ [nito100] 
issue 14 November 2020

In Competition No. 3174 you were invited to write a poem in which each line begins with the letters A S D F G H J K L Z X C V B N M, in that order.

One entry began: ‘Asinine/ Stupid/ Dumb/ Fatuous…’, and continued in a similar vein; a comment, perhaps, on my decision to set this comp.

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