Apart from the Highland cow and the shortbread I like this and the use of
the "doric" is somewhere beyond the cringe factor. I found it unfinished in
the best possible way in that I wanted to see more.
bw
James
>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub: Scotland the Brave
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:12:52 +0000
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> Scotland The Brave
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>His tongue, claustrophobic
>came out continually for Scotland.
>unco gallus (extremely reckless)
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>flesh off his back in Perth
>red hair for a mattress
>his Highland cow salted in The Lowlands
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>sty’d him with a pig, they did
>in the brig of a schooner, bone rations
>quartermaster halved
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>found Newfoundland
>summer-shy sub-soil
>north enscribed in glaciers
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>hairsted his fingernails, cockcroach
>hencroach, any bliddy croach
>sucked shavings, pined for home
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>To pricey Princes Street
>the distant cousins now return
>to trap wild shortbread
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