naw, not really

I am a passenger

up on th' bus

n I move my bag

to let this other gent sit down

he thanks me

but I state

och now, no bother, mate

What part of Scotland are you from? He axes

Glasgow izzit?

Ah'm no fae Scoatland

Irish me

Sorry now, he sez, I thought

No dramas, mate. I'm very often times confused

We're very close apart

Sound very much the same

I've heard

mind dew, that's

the very one thing that I have here

the worstest trouble wi here

iz that no buddy can hunderstand me

can't mick out a word I say

exspecially on the phone

the wife she sez – and they can hunnerstann

her italiano quite plain – you muss

speak slower lentamente and pronunciate

not jist slabber hon

Heh

In the shops now I jist usually point

doan even try to talk.

I see, he said.

Well, I have relatives in Ballycastle,

do you know it?

Me? Naw, not really.