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whit if?<br />
<strong>Whit</strong> if whan the tectonic plates<br />
shiftit<br />
<strong>Whit</strong> if whan yon tectonic<br />
plates rummelled, the land mass<br />
noo kent as Scotland haed bin<br />
jist a wee bit skited bi England,<br />
then jyned doucely wi Iberia whilst<br />
the southern pairt careert northwards<br />
towart the Arctic ennin up<br />
somewhaur near Baffin Island?<br />
We wad hae made the maist bonnie<br />
bangles o tin an selt them tae<br />
the bazaars o aa the wirld, oor ships<br />
wad hae plied frae the mony steeplt<br />
Berwick on Tagus tae Constantinople<br />
an back. In Europe the Saxons an Slavs<br />
wud still be fechtin the langest<br />
an maist borin war in history,<br />
hivin destroyt a their macheenes<br />
they wad be batterin each<br />
ither oan the heid wi stanes<br />
behint a huge protective wa built<br />
bi the Chinese Emperoar Qin Shihuangdi,<br />
to keep civilisatilon safe.<br />
Nae one wad hae gaun onywhere<br />
near America till Fabio MacDougall<br />
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