NOSTALGIA FOR SCOTLAND.
Scotland - wet summer afternoon:
Marketplace cats hide under wind-whipped stalls.
No weather difference from November to June :
The marketeers pull tight their shawls.
Gritting their teeth against the gale,
German linguistics students are full of praise
For the local Gaelic dialect and its frail
Evolution into some modern Glaswegian phrase.
As the sea breeze lashes the land’s back,
Ohio engineers from the “Local 39” crowd
Clutch their plaid kilt and yellow tour anorak :
Proper uniform for grandpa’s old country proud,
Note Local 39 refers to a tour bus run by
“IBEW Ohio Local 39” a local branch of a US engineering workers union.
Trump Cucaracha Cockaraca
All of Trump's elegance started to erupt
Talking about how everyone is corrupt
He clumsily choses to be celebrating
And adversaries constantly castigating.
He slipped all of his savings under a rug
Net worth equals nichol which was a plug
And all stock marketeers have concurred
None of Trump's stock should be preferred.
Whopping grand finale' eventually knew
Earnings are owned by only a select few
Who are positioned at top of his high ladder
All his money was made into a family matter.
Then there is this thing called Trump Vodka
That is a bunch of cucaracha and cockaraca
Wondering why up his lips like to pucker
His Trump supporters have become a sucker.
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
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BERWICK – ON – TWEED MARKET
Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the ancient market place
Sneaky ancient marketeers pace,
Their faces seeking trade:
Fowl, flesh, or fish
Old or fresh, for cash.
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NOTES
*Bastide means a fortified town, often with wide extensive
earth embankments surrounding the entire settlement.
*River Tweed is on the border between England and Scotland
*Berwick is a small town on the border.
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