| Wordsworth Gabe Atkinson

Readers were invited to summarise one of these films in verse: Titanic, Jurassic Park, Chinatown, Groundhog Day or Rocky.

Warwick Elley of Rothesay Bay writes: Proud Titanic, maiden trip,/Struck an iceberg, gashed the ship,/ Too few lifeboats, ship went down,/Hundreds perished, left to drown./Handsome Leo saved his Kate/Lost his own life, cruel fate. Christchurch’s Barry Grant: Ice hits drinks: clinks/Ship hits ice: sinks.

Dunedin’s Dianna Rule: Rocky B is none too bright./ The one thing he does well is fight./But he’s determined to succeed /In a punch-up with A Creed,/ And after one almighty rumble/All that he can do is mumble.

Kate Highfield of Hawke’s Bay: Bill Murray wakes; it’s Groundhog Day, the déjà vu is frightening./Bill wakes again; it’s Groundhog Day, so on, ad infinitum./ Bill wakes once more, but what has changed? Andie lies beside him.

Warren Palmer of Dunedin: “Today the animals have been fed,”/ The kindly theme-park owner said./”But would you like a private tour?/ They’ll always eat a little more.”

But this take by Auckland’s Rex McGregor is the winner: Jack and Rose took an elegant cruise/Across the North Atlantic./ The ship went down./Rose watched Jack drown./I assure you, it’s romantic.

The next competition was suggested by Colin Kemplen of Matamata: send in a brief response, in prose or verse, to this question often asked by customer service reps: “Is there anything else

I can help you with today?” Entries, for the prize below, close at noon, Thursday, July 27.