The Buckfast Bottle
Down below
Bothwell Street[1]
Beyond the shoppers
On a Saturday afternoon
The only thing I see
A single empty buckfast[2] bottle
Placed on the pavement
Around which
The streets of offices
Make sense
[1] Bothwell Street - located very close to the centre of Glasgow with many administrative headquarters and call centres on it. [2] Buckfast - a tonic wine originally made by Benedictine monks in Devon, England. A popular drink amongst the young and disenfranchised of the West of Scotland for many years; it is cheap, very sweet and highly intoxicating.
Kyle Smith was born in Glasgow in 1967 and grew up in Paisley. He been involved in teaching and learning for most of his adult life with stints in Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham, Aberdeen, London, and Perth. Kyle presently works at Perth College and lives near Stirling.