hallaig
11-05-2012, 10:36 AM
Tasha is just out of poets’ school,
where she was Head Girl,
and Bridget and Dan have the same hat.
They say I’m authentic
but I’m merely filthy drunk
and hanging about the refreshments
because if the Merlot’s run out already
there’s going to be trouble.
I read last, as the rest have somewhere to go,
and because there’s swearing in mine.
What do they think I am, a token Scotsman,
some kind of caricature?
I give a small, angry stagger.
Isn’t it odd, I say to a total stranger,
the number of Scottish drunks
in TV Drama? Outraged, I spend
the rest of the night
teaching a woman in a wheelchair
the right way to say get tae ****.
where she was Head Girl,
and Bridget and Dan have the same hat.
They say I’m authentic
but I’m merely filthy drunk
and hanging about the refreshments
because if the Merlot’s run out already
there’s going to be trouble.
I read last, as the rest have somewhere to go,
and because there’s swearing in mine.
What do they think I am, a token Scotsman,
some kind of caricature?
I give a small, angry stagger.
Isn’t it odd, I say to a total stranger,
the number of Scottish drunks
in TV Drama? Outraged, I spend
the rest of the night
teaching a woman in a wheelchair
the right way to say get tae ****.