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Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket by Margaret Hamilton (www.scotslanguage.com)

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Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket', by Margaret Hamilton, is one of the poems from 'The Kist' - an anthology of Scots (and Gaelic) poetry and prose that was digitised by Education Scotland and gifted to the Scots Language Centre so that teachers and learners can continue to benefit from this valuable resource.

See ma mammy

See ma dinner ticket

A pititnma

Pokit an she pititny

Washnmachine.

See thon burnty

Up wherra firewiz

Ma mammy says

Am no tellynagain

No’y playnit.

A jist wen’y eatma

Pokacrisps furma dinner

Nabigwoffldoon.

The wummin sed Aver near

Clapsd

Jistur heednur

Wee wellies sticknoot.

They sed Wot heppind?

Nme’nma belly

Na bedna hospital.

A sed A pititnma

Pokit an she pititny

Washnmachine.

They sed Ees thees chaild eb slootly

Non verbal?

A sed MA BUMSAIR

Nwen’y sleep.

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