The rare writing on the Cornish slate

is older than the notion of England,

as it sits now in Tintagel Castle,

a display for the excited

and the learned to ponder over,

it’s meaning lost in Latin and ancient script,

but it must be gleaned in this land of legends,

of old Dumnonia and the last King of Dungarth,

that the script must only contain one message;

Do not put carrots in the pasties.

Ian D. Hall 2018