Can you hear it yet?
The rioty past
of its hand-waxed
handle
Rattety, rattety
Crank turns, wood aligns,
sound alarms
Rattety, rattety
Mary’s army,
holding the fort,
with the men off
fighting
Rattety, rattety
Sounding the rattle,
they ratted on bailiffs
Rata-tat-tat
intent on evictions
from trench-dreamed
hearth-sides
Rattety, rattety! the Govan
artillery
Ratta–ratta -tatt! the echo back.