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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow
Kate Tough

Shame in our hulls
why else would we drink to incoherence
jump on the heads of passing men
punch our women
tell our children in a checkout queue,
‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means
Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

People Make Glasgow
obese, rotten-mouthed
stroke-felled, emphysemic
tumour-choked
aye, an proud ae it.
What we murdered them for
we kill ourselves with.

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet
the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.
So, sign-up for the new city tour –

The Glasgow Merchant Experience!
below deck on the Waverley
100 unclothed families
close-chained to plank beds
30 dead since it left Dunoon!
On the dock, a real live auction!
Feel the excitement as you bid
for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow
Kate Tough

Shame in our hulls
why else would we drink to incoherence
jump on the heads of passing men
punch our women
tell our children in a checkout queue,
‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means
Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

People Make Glasgow
obese, rotten-mouthed
stroke-felled, emphysemic
tumour-choked
aye, an proud ae it.
What we murdered them for
we kill ourselves with.

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet
the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.
So, sign-up for the new city tour –

The Glasgow Merchant Experience!
below deck on the Waverley
100 unclothed families
close-chained to plank beds
30 dead since it left Dunoon!
On the dock, a real live auction!
Feel the excitement as you bid
for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
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