WARNING: Throughout the history of this blog I have endeavoured to speak my mind and as a result have alienated people. What follows is the contents of my mind right now. It will offend but it is not designed to offend. It is the contents of my mind.
I was informed today that I am displaying signs of post traumatic stress. I had already worked that out when I found myself walking in the middle of Ladbroke Grove defying the traffic to hit me.
I then thought of that definition of bravery: 'Grace under fire'.
Hemingway used that definition.
Was that what he was thinking when he put the twelve bore to his head?
Grace under fire...
NO. He was thinking: 'I cannot cope'.
So I wrote this, but not to offend:
As a schoolboy in woodwork
melting unwanted bovine body parts in a crucible
to make glue
glue that bonded my shoddy magazine rack formed from raped-forest mahogany
Stronger than the wood that glue
In the crucible that was Grenfell
unwanted human body parts melted
to make glue
glue that now bonds a community
Stronger than the wood that glue.
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