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.