Unintended consequences …

… KGB’s map of Edinburgh inspired new Scots poetry —The Scotsman. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Pow’s poem The Soviet Map Of Edinburgh includes the lines: “Yet there must have been a mapmaker – one of the 40,000 – who, in some vast Moscow hanger, imagined this map animated in the field…More likely, he’d see tanks rolling along Princes Street; a rash of proscriptions; a secret police, sifted from collaborator and believer alike; shadows haunting every street corner. After which: a grey haar that feels as if it’ll never lift.”