Thanks, James. Am I right in thinking you to be a Scottish gentle poet?
>From: James Bell <[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 09:01:02 +0000
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>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.
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>bw
>James
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>>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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