Dear Philip,
This is an enjoyable read- lots of energy.
Just 2 points puzzled me- I don't know what hairsted means and isn't it
cockroach ?(obviously you've never picked up the roaches after a party) -so
if that's a pun on encroach, it doesn't work.
The final verse is a sizzler.
KInd regards,
grasshopper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Burton" <[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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