Spot on, Arthur. The clipped syntax is experimental and is intended for a
Scottish voice: Billy Connolly's. I've scuppered his long vowels in an
attempt to tame him. I did this as a symbol of what the English, and Lowland
Scots, did to The Highland culture. Sory abowt the missspeling. Philip

>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New Sub: Scotland the Brave
>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:54:40 -0000
>
>Philip, there is a lot going on here that is good and worthwhile. The
>clipped syntax I find difficult, like listening to a radio with a faulty
>connection. I am hearing bits rather than all. Your word play with
>cockroach
>is spoiled by a mis-spelling. I imagine these are the crofters dispossessed
>by the Jacobite Rebellion, eh? Regards Arthur.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Philip Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:12 PM
>Subject: New Sub: Scotland the Brave
>
>
>      Scotland The Brave
>
>
>His tongue, claustrophobic
>came out continually for Scotland.
>unco gallus (extremely reckless)
>
>flesh off his back in Perth
>red hair for a mattress
>his Highland cow salted in The Lowlands
>
>sty'd him with a pig, they did
>in the brig of a schooner, bone rations
>quartermaster halved
>
>found Newfoundland
>summer-shy sub-soil
>north enscribed in glaciers
>
>hairsted his fingernails, cockcroach
>hencroach, any bliddy croach
>sucked shavings, pined for home
>
>
>To pricey Princes Street
>the distant cousins now return
>to trap wild shortbread
>
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