‘I should have been journaling in this book more than what I have been.’- taken from my journal.
Bought in December of last year as an escape. A project and a place to live. It’s given me enough stories to last me a lifetime time. That means a lot from me. Backed up anecdotes for the years to come from months ago. Midnight raids and drunken escapades. My escape. And one for others too. Hiding fugitives when they were on the move. Showing me what to do. Can’t teach an old dog new tricks as their’s rest against me on the sofa. Chopping wood taken from the chopped down trees of Boston manor. The echoes of the axe ricocheting off of GSK. Stolen pallets of a midnight raid. “Wait until you do a proper one”. This mad man treated me like his own son. Kept the fire going as I slept. He knew that I had work in the morning. To keep the fire going if he could stay, he was on the run anyway, so it seemed like the fairest trade. Early morning alarm had his mutt at my heels. I guess that I was hitting snooze for a moment more. To get out of Brentford was the best move that I could have made. My manager had said a few months later. Rowing the boat away to safety after some concerning news. Unimportant if it wasn’t concerning you.
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John Gilroy
I'm a writer from London, now based in Leeds. Anecdotes, trians of thought and poems are what I write.
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Shepard and Flock
On the train now. I’m reading a book by jack kerouac. I’m next to a freight train. He used to work on them. A working man. I look at my working man’s hands. He describes scenes of drunken Bafoonery. Much like the ones that I’ve had recently. I can’t help it. Neither can he it seems. Longing for adventure or some crap like that. I’m reminded of what James said to me. I look like him. As our 6 month catch goes on he tells me that I’ve inspired him to fix up his dad’s car. He has the car I have my boat and the bloke at our table has London. He recently moved into James’s old place. A house in Brixton. Even took over his old job. It makes me smile. He’s going to take over James’s old life and make his own. Like a hand me down jumper. Like James’s dad’s car. We sit and we talk for hours. Go outside and get stoned. Right down thoughts as they come. Use a bookies pen to pen something onto my hand. I’d rubbed it off by the next morning. Getting out of bed on three ours sleep. Whilst James half asleep tries to close a curtain. He’s asleep by my fire. We had to call it a night. We were still stoned at 3:30 rolling another one as a night cap. I needed to be at work for 7:30. It’s about 6:30 at that point. My work clothes aren’t even on the boat. So I go in jeans. I have a jumper there and overalls. My eyes bloodshot. I’m still stoned. Not hungover though so that was a blessing I stager down to the cafe where I get my morning bacon and egg sandwich and a capuccino. Other trades sit around me. All waiting on their own food. I feel later than usual. I don’t recognise the faces. I look at myself in the mirror. They probably don’t recognise me either. I leave and get my bus. Everything feels off. I’m feeling like this might be the day that gets me. I’m into work. I get changed head down. Lager is on my tongue. That horrible taste of one too many pints. I burp my breathe the taste of that forgotten pizza. I’m tasked with hammering a boat. Getting all of the rust off it. The day before I had dismantled every loose sheet of aluminium steel and all of the tires along the sides. It was easy. Just me and Mike. I’d even welded a plate to another boat that morning. This was different this was awful. This was pain. By 2 I had a migraine. I never get them. Air chiselling blindly at the sides because health and safety told us we had to wear big bulky masks. We look like future soldiers. Master chief, Spartans. I have a paracetamol. The first one in years. Maybe my second ever. It helps for a moment and I get back on with my job.
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