Maryhill Road Poem by Daniel McDonagh

Tenements flats
Housed Glaswegian rats
That appeared at night
When in our bunk beds we slept,
They walked at ease
Along the linoleum
That father laid in the kitchen,
They brought their young
And brought their friends
Rummaging at night
Scampering into their dens,
In ‘74 we went away T
o let the tenements flat Crumble and fray,
Maryhill Road was demolished and re-built,
I wonder if the rats did stay?

2005