Betrayal in Morninside

Embro my ain, ye are aye meant
tae be a city o middle-class douceness
blue-nosed mediocrity
bourgeois obtuseness

but
(listen tae what I’m tellin ye!)
The ither nicht
in the Morninside chippie
I was confrontit by nae fewer than ten
o the reuchest and the teuchest
o yer haurdest-haurd haurd men
– and (O Gode!) hou I wished I was in Glasgow!