Edinburgh Festival 97: Continuing his series of occasional poems, John Hegley takes the Edinburgh pulse
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Of publicity material
She wanders up to the castle to see the Stone of Destiny
It is fate
During the wait
She remembers the mockery I'd heard
About the English theft of the rock
From the Abbey in Scone
(As in macaroon):
The monks had time to foreplan it
And the pilferers left
With a chunk of something other
Than the original granite
Passing into the jewel chamber
The sandstone sits before her
She stands at the glass
With a class of schoolkids just gone back
Next to her, the slight cackle
Of a tourist headphone guide
Saying that the stone, Definitely genuine,
Was reinstated in 1996
Inside her own headphones, Jimi Hendrix
Strings out a black and bluesy guitar burst
King Jimi the First
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