Edinburgh 2/7/16

Wildflowers of the street-side:
plantain between paving slabs and honesty
– yes – lunaria annua rooted in the sludge
under tenement walls, also hawksbit,

daisies, and some lanky kind of brassica –
what do they think this is, the countryside?
But jeez, the bins! Thae larus argentatus
nesting on the builders’ merchant’s roof

have been raiding again: takeaways strewn
then wind-blown, then rained on, this being July….
We’d be ‘Greece without the sunshine’

shrieks the Daily Mail. Aye, we’re so scared.
From someone’s window the radio plays:
‘a second Indyref would let us ditch the lot of them.’