A drunk man looks at the Scottish Enlightenment’
There was a band from Ayr that used to go and see called ‘Dead Friends’. I think they took their name from The Cure song ‘World War’ but I could be wrong.
Everything becomes past tense eventually.
My pal Geeksy used to sit drinking on the roof of his flat on Fullarton Street and watch the sun setting over Arran and the Firth of Clyde. I sat up there with him once looking out over the town that I had grown up in.
His flat was full of things and words that I was far too removed from, that I should have connected with somehow but I didn’t.
It’s too late now.
I hadn’t seen him for years but when my wife died he was at the back of the church, just standing there. He said it was important to stand with people.