The Rain

The Rain

His first memory is when 

he hid under his Mum’s bed

to scare her new boyfriend.

The boyfriend had needles.

At the time he didn’t know

what he was seeing. 

His second memory was when

he first started selling Class A drugs. 

He had just left the primary, year six.

At the after school disco he went to drop

some heroin off round to Ginger Kev’s

and saw him injecting the first memory. 

His third memory was years later when 

he was in jail. When he found that new 

boyfriend again. The minutes came back. 

He beat “the fuckin’ shit out of him 

so he had to have a transfusion”.

He said the sound of rain comforts him.