A LIGHT-HEARTED admonition from the Fraserburgh-born poet George Bruce should raise a smile on a Monday morning.
It comes from Today Tomorrow, his Collected Poems spanning the years 1933-2000 (Polygon, £14.99).
VIBRATIONS
'Be nocht hoity-toity'
You'll mind on the gran tenor
wha's tap note brak the gless
on the table-tap intae twa thoosand pieces.
You'll mind on 'the classic case'
o the wa's o Jericho.
And then there wis the hen
that look't Mrs McPhee
straucht in the ee,
an she split.
Noo abody has their vibrations,
witin in the back-shop
or unner the bed
or spewed oot sudden
frae a shiny computer.
So, watch yer step this fine mornin,
my mannie.
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