The great Robbie Burns
the ploughman poet himself
was born on 25th January,
every year I raise a wee dram
of Scottish whisky.
Another of my poetry heroes
and the reason I got into poetry,
the Bard of Salford,
Dr John Cooper Clarke
was also born 25th January.
If you think that is an
astonishing coincidence,
wait until I tell you, that, I myself,
this aspiring poet, was born
about three months later.