<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13327">On the achievement of ole cat-eye's friend eagle-eyed Steve, catching Marek's typo..</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14069">and even more of the verse which amused Harry Callaghan and Phil Ladd, NUT (now up there).<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14021"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14023" dir="ltr">ISREAL (with no apologies to Johnny Carisi or Svengali*)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14072">(*asterisk dedicated to Ken Mathieson)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14075"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_14074">What a lovely typo, and Steve's contention</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13972">that Marek is actually his (Steve's) invention <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13974">makes me hope that that won't make Marek disappear <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13646">with consequent collapse in the sale of good beer</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13641">such as he'll often award a good mention.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13648"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13681">I write limericks and other verse, some deeper,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13639">but alas I'm semi-immobilised and a sleeper <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13650">as a victim of damnable Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13684">which keeps me and my trouble too much at home <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13652">though the ivy around the house is the only creeper --</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13686"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13654">I play blues piano and also sing bass <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13688">(I'm trained in the latter, not a disgrace!) <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13576">like the birds on Bessie Smith's Black Mountain <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13521">and am about two metres tall and can't refrain <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13513">from saying that like the Eiger I've a north face <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13607"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13656">but a fondness also for listening Deep South,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13658">where the garrulous are like'to hear "Shut yo' mouth!"</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13660">and my age is I'll admit three score and a bit, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13662">started in Scotland, back here, appreciative of wit <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13664">and a due delectation of what eases Marek's drouth; <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13666"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13668">and I learned about jazz from Lord Voce and suchlike ears,<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13670">not to mention Eddie Lambert, the criticism which cheers,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13772">Albert McCarthy, and the extended Ellington romance <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13762">associated by many with the "we" of Stanley Dance <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13775">and other now drinkers of Ambrosia -- and more beers. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13827"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13829">Among other things I've done before <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13955">I've been a reference book author and an editor <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13886">of literary magazines and more <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13957">and you can even pay to hear me on CD <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13959">but as a reader of Scots Language poetry<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13884"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13883">I can't recall when I joined but thank you all <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13831">without whom life could be less of a ball!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13833"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1535569492750_13835">Robert R. 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