The Pittenweem Quine

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Thair wis a wee mart shop

Back home in auld Fife,

Wi Pittenweem haddock

Filleted by knife.


The quine thair sold fishcakes

Ye'd nae trade for lyfe,

At that one wee mart place

In Pittenweem, Fife. 


Her mam spak a jargon

That warmed the toon's hert.

Nae faustian bargain,

Could keep thaim apairt.


Whan brave lads symphonic

Wid shoot their puir shot,

She'd swear thaim platonic,

All Fifers, all Scots.


Whan I think on ma lyfe,

Noo weathered wi age,

I think back on auld Fife

Pre-spongiform days,


Tae the Pittenween quine. 

See, it took her quick, 

That so awfu disease 

That had made her sick.


For in just a few years 

Misfortune and fate

Brocht her mam tae tears, I

Disambiguate.


She wis Fife-beloved

So factually,

That I write of her oft,

Retroactively,


That wee Pittenweem quine

In the auld mart shop,

From back home in Fife's green, 

Wha sellt me haddock.


Prompt: write a Hai-poem using the words Platonic; Fishcakes; Retroactively; Spongiform; Disambiguate; Faustian; A, The, It, And.



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