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To be or not to be in Blackness on Sea
POEM
To be or not to be in Blackness on Sea
(Elsinore was set in Blackness Castle for scenes
in Franco Zeffirelli’s film of ‘Hamlet’)
You brown and mottled lobsters all,
come crawl into my Scottish parlour creel,
you’ll find, alas, there’s no way out
until you’re hauled aboard a boat
and plopped into a hotter pot,
where you’ll turn red and, sadly, dead.
The Lobster Pot’s a goodly prison,
you’ll stroll into the parlour, baited well
with burgers, beer and twice fried chips,
and, once inside and soused, it’s hard to leave
until your designated driver hauls you out
and puts you, like a sticky toffee pud, to bed.
Hamlet would choose ‘to be’ in Blackness on Sea,
if there is steak and lobster still for tea!
POEM TITLE
Wee Creel Clerihew
POEM
Blackness on Sea
Is remarkably wee
Aside from the castle, one braw thing it's got
Is a pub with good food called 'The Lobster Pot'.
POEM TITLE
Lobster Pot Limerick
POEM
In Blackness on Sea, in a creel,
A broon labster wus no feelin weel,
Noo he's in a hot spot
At the auld 'Lobster Pot'
Wi a steak in a surf an turf deal.