The Arts in Dumfries are in Rude Health as Twelve People Follow a Man in a Horse's Head and Four Girls with Pink Faces hold Smoke Sticks as a Machine Lifts a Cow
Not for the first time
the town is being reanimated,
filled with colour, music and ritual.
and the cries of What the Fuck,
we are empowering the people
and what risks we take!
It harks back to the time
the Vikings sailed here
trading beads and origami herons.
Our links with this proud race
are perpetuated in
a vegetarian stovie recipe,
our sense of destiny,
and the ruthless way we fill
in our funding applications.
