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THE POET'S PUB

(Milne's Bar, Edinburgh)

 

poets come from far & wide

following the Good Beer Guide

 

these pilgrims going for a jar

are not content with just any bar

 

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Milne's & only Milne's will do

 

Mermaid Tavern of the North

quite close to the Firth of Forth

 

its notoriety has spread

to writers & the better read

 

so customers arriving here

don't come only for the beer

 

the clientele are never vague

they always ask for N. MacCaig

 

to MacDiarmid & Maclean

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if doggerel appeals to you

McEwan's Export might just do

 

drunken rhymesters sat in rows

never stoop so low as prose

 

drink's a vice but so is verse

& who's to say which one is worse

 

methinks the twain shall never part

they stand united booze & art

 

 

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Note misspellings!

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Review of this verse:

'I like it' ~ Professor Laurie Taylor (Sociologist & Broadcaster)