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Letters / Bard in the bog?

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20 November 2020 12:22

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Too late for entry [to Shetland Library’s Bards in the Bog project], but just in case it’s worth a mention:

I can’t expect, to ever collect,
literary recognition.
When I air my views on Shetland loos,
whilst in a squat position.
But it has to said,
that Shakespeare’s dead,
and prose now closed for Mcgonagall,
so let’s make a case to fill that space,
with examples of bogroll doggerel.

John Laurenson,
Toft

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