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Vitiligo is a chronic skin disease characterized by the appearance of white spots with precise contours on various body parts. These depigmented spots are due to the destruction of melanocytes - the cells responsible for skin pigmentation. Depigmentation may be more or less important, and the affected areas have a variable size, that's way vitiligo skin may be a devastating condition for anybody.
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The origin of the disease is unknown, but it is believed that it is an autoimmune disease where the body produces antibodies to attack and destroy their own melanocytes.
Vitiligo appears first as small depigmented spots, which spread and grow in size over time. These changes of the skin lead to patient the occurence of stress and anxiety due to the unsightly appearance.
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Vitiligo affects 1% - 2% of the population and usually occurs before the age of 20 years (50% of people affected). There is no cure for vitiligo. Instead, the goal of treatment is to stop or slow depigmentation and to return the skin coloration within certain limits. In rare cases, the spots disappear on their own. People affected by vitiligo have an increased risk of skin cancer because the depigmented areas are not protected against sunlight.
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Vitiligo disease is a pigmentosa condition of the mucous membranes and of the skin, and has as characteristics some circumscribed depigmented patches and macules. It is a progressive condition where some parts or even all of the lesioned skin melanocytes are destroyed in a selective way. This disorder affects about 2% of the population and the age when this disease appears is 20 years. Vitiligo symptoms are as well as the ones as a multifactorial disease with a very complex pathogenesis. In order to better understand this concept, see here some vitiligo pictures.
Vitiligo manifests as macules or white hypo-pigmented spots. This disease has a relation to genetic and non genetic factors. The exact cause of this condition remains unknown, even though there were plenty proposed theories. Principles are generally accepted when there is a lack of functional melanocytes in affected skin and loss of histochemical recognition of melanocytes leading to their elimination.
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There is not a single therapy that causes good results, meaning there is not a vitiligo cure. The response to therapy is quite variable. Vitiligo treatment should be individualized and patients should be aware of the risks associated with therapy. Phototherapy induces systemic satisfactory cosmetic repigmentation in 70% of patients with early or localized disease. Laser therapy is another innovation for limited spots vitiligo, stable. Therapy is still expensive. Steroid therapy with prednisone was used although the prolonged administration and its toxicity are undesirable. Benefits should be assessed carefully against the toxicity. Topical therapy with tacrolimus creams are an alternative option for vitiligo cure.
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If this condition is widespread and vitiligo repigmentation attempts have not given satisfactory results can be tried depigmentation in some patients. There are alternatives to surgical vitiligo treatment, however due to time-consuming nature of these therapies are limited for the localized vitiligo.
Theories on the autoimmune elimination of melanocytes can include the mechanisms, cytotoxic mechanisms, and intrinsic defects of melanocytes, neural mechanism and oxidation-reducing mechanisms. Due to the pathogenesis of this disorder, there is not a vitiligo treatment to give a 100% recovery.
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There is some autoimmune theory which suggests altered cellular and humoral immune elimination of melanocytes in vitiligo disease. Thyroid disease, especially Grave's diseas and Hashimoto thyroiditis and other endocrinopathies like diabetes and Addison's disease, alopecia areata, autoimmune poliglandular syndrome, intestinal inflammatory disease, psoriasis and pernicious anemia are in the same category with vitiligo Michael Jackson, the disease which make the star becoming white. There are important evidences of autoimmune pathogenic circulating antibodies are prevalent in persons affected of vitiligo skin. Humoral immunity has an important role which is sustained through the observation of melanocytes eliminated in healthy, normal skin grafts in a patient with vitiligo.
Here are some vitiligo pictures which will make you understand what this condition involves.
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Beside the mechanisms involved in the humoral autoimmune vitiligo's pathogenesis and indicate the implication of cellular immunity. CD 8 lymphocytes can mediate directly the elimination of melanocytes.
Melanocytes in vitiligo can have a defect, an intrinsic defect leading to serious health problems. The melanocytes show different abnormalities, including the uncommon endoplsmic reticulum, rough and the processing melanocytes and incomplete synthesis. Therfore there were detected and receptor abnormalities. The cause of melanocytes low survival can be their early apoptosis; however, a second investigation reveals that there is a relative susceptibility to the apoptosis of the melanocytes which were comparable to the healthy ones.
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Oxidative stress also plays a role in vitiligo pathogenesis. Due to the fact that patients suffering of vitiligo show a characteristic fluorescent yellow / green or blue of the skin clinically affected, this lead to the detection of this next fact: fluorescence exist because of the accumulation of oxygen radicals. Pteridine production leads to accumulation of hydrogen peroxide melanocitotoxic.
Neural theory in vitiligo refers to patients with nerve damage and vitiligo which shows skin depigmentation or hypopigmentation in the area without nerves. Segmental vitiligo suggests that some chemical mediators are being released into the depigmented spots of this disorder with increased adrenergic activity.
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Incomplete penetration and the genetic heterogeneity are the characteristics of vitiligo skin. There are genes associated with melanin biosynthesis, being a feedback to the regulating autoimmunity and oxidative stress.


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The press conference announcing the Japanese women's and men's teams for August's London World Championships is set for this Friday. It's a complicated selection process with four separate domestic races each to choose the three women and three men who will represent Japan in London. Essentially, any woman who had run under 2:22:30 or man under 2:07:00 within the selection window and took the top spot at one of the selection races would be on the team.
Barring that, the JAAF would consider a pool of ten for each team, the top woman at last August's Hokkaido Marathon and the top three domestic women from November's Saitama International Marathon, January's Osaka International Women's Marathon and March's Nagoya Women's Marathon, and for men the top Japanese man at February's Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon and the top three from December's Fukuoka International Marathon, February's Tokyo Marathon and March's Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon.
Runners in the pool would be evaluated on a range of criteria including finishing time, place, competitiveness versus the winners and their strategy within the race. The criteria leave wiggle room for the JAAF to play favorites to some degree, a fact that drew intense media and public scrutiny after a highly controversial decision in naming the 2015 Beijing World Championships women's team.
- Yuka Ando (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 2:21:36 (2nd, Nagoya Women's 2017)
- Mao Kiyota (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 2:23:47 (3rd, Nagoya Women's 2017)
- Risa Shigetomo (Tenmaya) - 2:24:22 (1st, Osaka Int'l 2017)
- Kaori Yoshida (Team RxL) - 2:32:33 (1st, Hokkaido 2016)
- Mizuho Nasukawa (Universal Entertainment) - 2:33:16 (5th, Saitama 2016)
Looking at the top end of the contenders for the women's team, it looks pretty clear that there is only one possible lineup the JAAF might name. Yuka Ando (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) is on the team for sure after clearing the 2:22:30 qualifying standard for 2nd in Nagoya in her debut. Her Suzuki teammate Mao Kiyota is very likely in after a 2:23:47 for 3rd in just her second career marathon, running most of the race solo after going with Ando and winner Eunice Kirwa (Bahrain) for the first 10 km or so. Risa Shigetomo (Team Tenmaya) won Osaka in 2:24:22, the third-fastest time among the ten contenders, and with past Olympic and World Championships experience her chances of being picked are at least as good as Kiyota's.
There's no real scenario in which the JAAF would pick Hokkaido winner Kaori Yoshida (Team RxL), who also ran all three of the other selection races without taking the top Japanese spot in any, and even less chance that the top Japanese woman from Saitama, Mizuho Nasukawa (Team Univ. Ent.) will make it. Altogether it looks like the women's team will be made up of two talented young rising stars and one experienced veteran, a good mix as the Japanese women look to return to the medals after coming up short last time around.
- Hiroto Inoue (MHPS) - 2:08:22 (8th, Tokyo 2017)
- Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) - 2:09:11 (3rd, Fukuoka Int'l 2016)
- Kentaro Nakamoto (Yasukawa Denki) - 2:09:32 (1st, Beppu-Oita 2017)
- Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Konica Minolta) - 2:09:12 (10th, Tokyo 2017)
- Yuta Shitara (Honda) - 2:09:27 (11th, Tokyo 2017)
- Satoru Sasaki (Asahi Kasei) - 2:10:10 (4th, Lake Biwa 2017)
Although women had a 3:18 margin off the 2:19:12 national record to score auto-selection for the London team, at 2:07:00 Japanese men had to run within 44 seconds of the 2:06:16 national record to make it. Although more than one took a serious stab at doing it, needless to say none did. Had the men's standard been been based off an equitable margin to the women's five men would have broken it, with Hiroto Inoue (Team MHPS), Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) and Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki) all taking the top Japanese spots in their races. Instead, facing a much harder standard, they are left entirely at the mercy of JAAF politics, and there's more than one possible way it could go.
Inoue looks set, running most of Tokyo at national record pace in his second marathon and taking the top Japanese spot at 8th overall in 2:08:22. By just about any objective criteria Kawauchi is next in line, having run a brutally aggressive race for 3rd in 2:09:11 in Fukuoka to finish just seconds behind defending World Championships silver medalist Yemane Tsegaye (Ethiopia) and former world record holder Patrick Makau (Kenya). The third spot is harder to call.
Nakamoto won Beppu-Oita in 2:09:32 with a smart run that saw him up front for most of the race, and as Japan's best championships marathoner of the modern era he'd be an equally smart choice for the team. But Beppu-Oita was only a second-tier selection event with a weaker field than the other three events, and in Tokyo both Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Team Konica Minolta) and Yuta Shitara (Team Honda) were faster.
There's no chance that the top Japanese man at Lake Biwa, Rio Olympian Satoru Sasaki (Team Asahi Kasei) will make it, but there's a case to be made for Yamamoto over Nakamoto. Off a conservative first half in the second Japanese pack Yamamoto ran 20 seconds faster than Nakamoto and is still on the way up in his career, having been just seconds out of 3rd place at November's New York City Marathon. Nakamoto needed a comeback run after a few bad years in order to win Beppu-Oita, and there's not much doubt London could be the end of his career.
There's even a plausible scenario in which they could choose Shitara over both Yamamoto and Nakamoto. In his marathon debut in Tokyo Shitara was fearless and bold, suicidal, some might say, going through halfway in 1:01:55 and despite dying late still coming in faster than Nakamoto's winning time. Although the JAAF said they were looking for negative splits this time they've always loved frontrunning and Shitara earned high praise immediately post-race. 1991 Tokyo World Championships gold medalist Hiromi Taniguchi publicly called for Shitara to be put on the London team, and, in a twist, said Yamamoto should also be on instead of Kawauchi.
That doesn't sound likely, but it's an indication of how much wiggle room there is within the JAAF's methodology that it could be a possibility. Whatever the final decision, it goes public tomorrow. Live streaming of the announcement starts at 5:00 p.m. Japan time on Mar. 17.
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VERGENNES — In a hard-fought, well-played high school boys' basketball game this past Thursday with postseason implications, visiting Middlebury surged in the second half to defeat Vergennes, 57-50.
The 16-4 Tigers completed a rare sweep of their Lake Division games, clinched the No. 5 seed for the Division I playoffs, and stretched their winning streak to 10 games.
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BRISTOL — For the first time since 2011, the Mount Abraham Union High School basketball program will not appear in the Division II championship game in the Barre Auditorium, and the Eagles will not win their third straight title this season despite another strong season in which they earned the No. 2 seed in Division II and tied South Burlington for the Lake Division crown.
In a Friday quarterfinal that was a rematch of the 2014 final, visiting No. 7 Fair Haven used a dominant performance on the boards to upset the Eagles, 38-31, and advance to Barre.
BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School boys' basketball team dropped a pair of road games on back-to-back nights last week, missing a chance to clinch the No. 4 seed for the Division II playoffs.
As of Sunday, it was not certain whether the 14-6 Otters or Vergennes (13-7) would be the No. 4 seed; regardless, the other will be No. 5 and the teams will face each other in a quarterfinal if both win their first-round games.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School girls' hockey team received the No. 2 seed in Division I from the Vermont Principals' Association on Thursday and will host a quarterfinal playoff game on Wednesday.
The defending Division II champion Tigers (15-5) will entertain No. 7 Rutland (7-11-2) at 7 p.m. The Raiders and Tigers met twice this winter, with MUHS winning by 5-1 and 1-0.
MIDDLEBURY — The No. 4 Middlebury Union High School boys' hockey team won its first-round Division II playoff game on Saturday night, 6-2, over visiting No. 13 Northfield.
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Hannah Cockroft wins third gold of Paralympics
Halifax wheelchair sprinter Hannah Cockroft made it a clean sweep of Paralympic gold medals for her this with victory in the T34 800 metres.
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Once again the 24-year-old dominated from the start to win her third gold medal in Rio and fifth Paralympic title overall.
Hannah Cockroft to receive honorary doctorate
Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft from Halifax is among eight people who are to be given honorary degrees by the University of Bradford later this month. She will receive a doctorate for athletic achievements.
Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Brian Cantor, said;
"The University of Bradford's eight honorary graduates represent some of the very best practice in their chosen fields. They are true inspirations, not only for their work, but for their contributions to society as a whole.
"I am honoured to welcome them to the University of Bradford and hope their accomplishments inspire our graduates to strive for greatness too."
Hannah inspires young cancer patients
Double gold medal winning paralympian Hannah Cockroft, from Halifax, has been offering a little inspiration to young cancer patients.
She met children at St James Hospital in Leeds on their first ever "End of Treatment Day." The party organised by charity CLIC Sargent, is a reward for youngsters who have bravely fought their illness and are now looking to their future.
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Hannah Cockroft celebrates with cancer survivors
Children with cancer at a Leeds hospital will be joined by a special guest when they reach the end of their treatment today.Read the full story ›
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Celebrities including cricket legend Dickie Bird, TV football pundit Chris Kamara and double Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft have given their support to the Yorkshire marathon
Hannah Cockroft talks about her New Year honour
Paralympic sprinter Hannah Cockroft from Halifax says her MBE in the New Year honours was hard to keep secret. She found out several weeks ago but then had to keep the news to herself.
Video: Hannah Cockroft receives another honour
Double paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft has been made a freewoman of the borough of Calderdale. Hannah, who won 2 gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres wheelchair sprint in London, was awarded this latest honour at Halifax Town hall this morning.
Friends and family were there to see Hannah sign the honorary freedom roll of honour, be presented with the freedom scroll and unveil her name on the freedom plaque.
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Highest honour for Hannah following Paralympic sucsess
Calderdale's inspirational double gold medallist, Hannah Cockroft, is set to receive the highest honour that the Council can hand out.Read the full story ›
Hannah Cockcroft to be made Honorary Freewoman of Calderdale
Double gold medallist Hannah Cockroft is to be made an Honorary Freewoman of the Borough of Calderdale at a ceremony in Halifax Town Hall on Saturday.
The Halifax athlete, who has cerebral palsy, stormed to victory in the London 2012 Paralympic Games after winning gold medals in the T34 100m and 200m and breaking Paralympic records in both. In May 2012 Hannah became the first person to set a world record in the Olympic Stadium in the 100m.
She also carried the Olympic Torch through Brighouse. After her Paralympic triumph, Hannah was welcomed back to Calderdale by hundreds of people at a homecoming event at the Piece Hall in Halifax.
Hannah says: "It's a huge honour for me to become a Freewoman of the Borough of Calderdale. I'm very proud to be from Yorkshire and to live in Halifax, surrounded by the townspeople, who have helped me so much in the past four years to achieve my ultimate dream."


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Consider the last time you learned something valuable. Maybe it came to you through your headphones via a podcast or video. Maybe it was something interesting in an email newsletter or article. Or maybe it was something you scrolled your way down to on a social media feed. No matter what you learned, there's a good chance you didn't learn it sitting at a computer or reading it on paper — you probably consumed it on your smartphone or tablet.
Recent estimates put the number of mobile devices in our world at 7+ billion — about the same as the world population. In the twenty-first century, education of all kinds happens everywhere around us. Why should it be different for the business world?
Even as all things content- and media-related have evolved to become mobile optimized, corporate learning has largely remained a realm of in-person instruction, paper-bound manuals, and desktop-only tutorials and webinars. But smart businesses around the world are embracing the mobile revolution and recognizing that "mLearning" is the way of the future for employee, customer, channel, and enterprise training. Here's why, and why it's crucial for your company to adopt a mobile-optimized learning management system (LMS) sooner rather than later.
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Business is Already BYOD: Every day, each member of your team and every one of your customers walks around with a phone in hand (or pocket). They're already using smartphones, tablets, and other devices to check emails, communicate with peers, and perhaps even track performance and execute job responsibilities using mobile-friendly tools like Salesforce and Hootsuite. Not allowing them to use their devices to learn, too, is a missed opportunity for engagement.
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FRANKFORT — What should be the state's spending priorities for the next two fiscal years?
Should Kentucky give felons a clearer path to having rights restored after they've fulfilled their sentences?
Should public and private partnerships be formed to work together on large projects?
Many of the big questions confronting our state were taken up and voted on in the Senate Chamber this week, the 12th week of the General Assembly's 2016 session. As is typical in the home stretch of a legislative session, the number of bills moving through chambers and delivered to the governor's desk continued to increase with each passing day.
The Senate's big issue of the week, though, was undoubtedly the state budget. No one is denying that the budget process is difficult because every decision affects real people across the state. As we debated differences in the House and Senate budget proposals, I found that the cuts in the Senate Majority plan were too deep and could not fully support that plan.
At the time of this writing, members of the Senate and House were meeting in a conference committee to iron out differences in each chambers' spending proposals. The goal is to craft a plan that both chambers can agree on before the veto recess. I am optimistic that we will find a solution that will protect education, shore up the state employee and teacher retirement plans and invest in our infrastructure, while looking out for our most vulnerable citizens.
In other business, the Senate approved a measure that would let voters decide on a proposed amendment to the state constitution regarding the restoration of rights to felons who have paid their debt to society. The measure, Senate Bill 299, would place a proposed amendment on this year's November ballot that, if approved, would allow the General Assembly to set guidelines for restoring felon voting rights.
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– Senate Bill 245 would bring Kentucky's state ID program into compliance with federal standards. The legislation would make REAL ID-compliant state-issued identification available to Kentuckians. REAL ID is a federal program adopted in 2005 that would come close to establishing a national proof-of-identity program. By 2018, flyers from states that are not REAL ID compliant nor have an extension – or those individuals who do not choose to obtain an enhanced ID – will need a second form of identification to fly domestically. By 2020, all flyers will require enhanced identification.
– House Bill 38 would require the state to set standards for the use and operation of aerial recreational facilities like outdoor ziplines and canopy tours. The legislation was drafted with input from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, which would set the standards and regulate ziplines and related forms of entertainment. The department could rely on industry standards and third-party inspections when setting requirements, and could set fees to help administer those requirements.
– House Bill 115 would expand eligibility for screenings under the state's Colon Cancer Screening Program to uninsured Kentuckians between the ages of 50-64 or uninsured persons deemed at high risk for the disease. Eligibility would be based on current American Cancer Society screening guidelines.
– House Bill 59 would make it easier for those at risk of violence to shield their home addresses from people who could harm them. The measure would allow people at risk of violence to apply for a substitute address without first obtaining a domestic violence order. A sworn statement would suffice.
As a growing number of bills were moving through legislative chambers this week, others were being delivered to the governor's office to be signed into law. Some of the legislation delivered to the governor included:
– Senate Bill 43 would make the survivors of emergency medical services providers who are killed in the line of duty eligible for the state lump-sum death benefits.
– Senate Bill 63, the SAFE Act of 2016, would eliminate a backlog of more than 3,000 sexual assault examination kits dating back to the 1970s. This is a step forward to give victims justice.
– Senate Bill 195 would extend state-paid survivor benefits to surviving family members of cancer-stricken firefighters by determining that some firefighters who succumb to certain types of cancers died as the result of an act performed in the line of duty.
With only a few more working days remaining, the session is quickly winding down. There is s still time, though, for important measures to become law. I encourage you to take this opportunity to have your voice heard in this legislative session. You can leave me a message by calling the legislative message line at 800-372-7181 or you can email me directly at [email protected]


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- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3 large carrots, cut into chunks
- 1 baking potato, peeled and cut into chunks
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 all-purpose flour
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- 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
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- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- Kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
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- 1 large egg
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In a large cast-iron or heavy skillet, heat the oil over medium high heat until hot, then stir in the onion, garlic, carrots, potato, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 tea-spoon pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in the flour and cook, until incorporated, about 2 minutes. Pour in the stock and bring to a boil, then stir in the chicken. Season the filling with salt and pepper to taste. Place the filling in a 10-inch pie plate.
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Prose and Cons - Pieces of a Man
Book by: GilSH
Status: Finished
Genre: Memoir
Chapter1 (v.1) - Excerpts FromWhat I Remember of the Last 16 years
Freedom. Free Doom.
After proposing that I 'hawk myself around schools' and give talks on not committing crime my grandparents decided my vocation was as a karate instructor. I have, incidentally, never practiced or showed any interest in or aptitude for martial arts. I though that that was the peak of their ill advised career advice until the day my granddad told me he thought it might be good if I went to do something worthwhile in Africa. I had to check my calendar and make sure it wasn't 1840. Me. Me! Doing charity work in Africa? Everyone knows how easily I attract trouble. My trip to see the Mexican sun ended with me incarcerated in a 3rd world jail with pirates and all manner of crazy characters. So Africa? Within a fortnight in Tanzania I would have pissed off some rebel warlord and be hiding out in the woods avoiding being shot by a guerrilla army. Eating tree bark and desperately trying to get a signal on my satellite phone so I can phone my big, black ex-partner in crime to come help, "Yo, Buki, can you bring some boys from the zones to back me up here? I, er, I think I am somewhere near the Zimbabwe/Zambia border… No, not BMT (black man time/at least an hour late). I need you here NOW!" Africa. Shit. I would actually love to go there one day; to Senegal. At various points in my life I have had close friends from Senegal and they were all lovely, generous people. Some who housed and fed me when I was down and out in the Canary Islands on the run from a trumped up attempted murder charge. Well; Two of them actually. And other friends from that country who I have met in England. I have met some truly beautiful people from Senegal and I would love to go there, but now, with no money, no motivation and only 12 weeks free of my last prison sentence? I think I need to adjust and get things right in my head before I conquer the dark continent and take Christianity and genocide to the welcoming natives.
For now I just need to get some sort of handle on my depression and anxiety – which probably stem from the root of my last prison sentence. 10 years I had been away from crime, got a degree and then for no reason walking home I was attacked in the street by some drunk pricks who had too much bravado and not enough sense. Not being a stranger to extreme violence I retaliated enthusiastically in my self defense against the chap whose flying head butt broke my nose. He didn't last long and was pretty seriously injured but I was soon overpowered, battered unconscious and stabbed in the face. Of course, whoever saw the melee mid way through and called the police didn't see what triggered it so when the police got involved I had my honest word against the word of 12 people who had suddenly turned from feral thugs to innocent choir boys; scared and indignant at the crime perpetrated upon their gentle persons. They outnumbered me in the fight and in court; though the judge did issue the minimum sentence saying he suspects I was "acting under great provocation as it is unlikely one man would attack a group of twelve people he had never previously encountered".
Wow, thanks. So why not let me go, Your Honour, instead of giving me 18 months? An amusing (to me) addendum to this tale is that the guy who broke my nose went on to attack more people- it seems to be a habit of his - and ended up on the landing above me in jail. I was nearly out and didn't need the aggro but a friend of mine ensured he spent some time in the hospital wing. I think he got knocked unconscious three times; twice in one sitting and another one a week later, before begging to be put into isolation for his own safety. That probably sounds sickening to you reading this but to me I think he deserved worse. I had gained a degree in the 10 years I had been uninvolved in crime, I'd had temporary jobs with no background check required (and they are very few), I had a girlfriend and with a decade old criminal record a (small) chance of getting a long term, semi-decent job. After that brawl I am now a fresh out of jail ex-con again, newly released after committing a serious violent offence, so, any chance I had of my past staying behind me got shattered with my nose against his forehead.
Before I went to court over the offence people I used to 'work' with who don't offer without meaning it volunteered to kidnap and torture the istigator of the attack, or just shoot him in his legs, they would have ensured he and his friends dropped the charges and I would have stayed free from incarceration but I was (am) too old for all that gangster shit now. 10 years earlier it would have been a very different story but this time I am staying away from crime, even if it means applying for 700 jobs and not getting one reply and having to 'scrounge' benefits because I am, according to the Daily (Hate) Mail too lazy to work. I look for work on a daily basis and so far the only offer has been from a close friend; to come in as partner in a cultivation and distribution of cannabis operation. I declined. All crime, even selling cannabis to peaceful students leads to violence. Other criminals want to rob you, you have to carry a gun. You can't ever back down or be seen to avoid a confrontation even if you don't want it, cause that just brings the jackals to come and prey those they see as weak. You can never let anybody see you are vulnerable (or sensible). The most minor thing can escalate in that life. Even a mutually consensual one-on-one fist fight, if it goes to court, it is ABH or GBH. You can't just address the judge and say, "well, we had a problem and we decided to have a fair fight" he'll just say "yeah, and that guys busted head makes it GBH. Take him down". So a 1 or 2 minute problem can end up costing you 18 months or 18 years of your life depending on the judge, your previous offences, the injuries incurred and a whole manner of things. I know 3 or 4 people who have thrown one single punch and the person they hit cracked their head on the kerb and died. Manslaughter. 12 years. That shit is just not worth it. In future, if I get attacked I will just take the beating, keep my mouth shut, and maybe allow someone to send some vengeance down upon them when the heat has cooled off.
Post Jail and Jail Mail
So now in my leisure time I spend my days listening to and reading the poetry produced by people who move me, who make me feel something; potent, powerful speakers like Gil Scott-Heron, Tupac Shakur, and among many others I always read a lot of Maya Angelou and Byron. I find solace in people who can make you think, make you cry, make you regret and look forward; but most of all just let you know that other people have and do feel the way you do. Music and literature, art can't stitch you up or pick up your broken pieces and fix them back together again but they sure can be a balm to soothe or relieive the pain that I feel having to wake up every morning.
Today I got a letter from a 'Muslim' friend, and ex pad mate, who remains in jail for now. I put Muslim in inverted commas as I have never met someone upon whom the term could be hung so loosely. He won't eat pork, I grant him that, but I think that is his one vague nod to the tenets of Islam. This point was driven home to me when we were in our cell after bang up watching the documentary Married to the Moonies about the Unification Church of Sun Yung Moon and the mass weddings they hold. As soon as he heard that you could turn up to these mass blessings alone and be given a wife he immediately committed apostasy and pledged his allegiance to the Moonies. This was around 9 minutes into the programme; before the first set of adverts even. As far as I know his commitment still stands and upon his release from prison he is heading straight out there to get himself a Mrs Moon. So when I hear people talk about the dangers of Islam and the Islamification of the West I am not too worried. There might be an extreme minority out there but I am sure they are going to repeat that documentary on BBC3 at some point and if you big screen it outside the Mosques frequented by followers of the Abu's Hamza and Qatada I think a huge threat can be neutralised in less than a quarter of an hour. They should create a new religion that gives away football season tickets and a pack of 20 cigarettes for every convert. Make a documentary about that and those EDL and BNP clowns will be preaching to their undoubtedly white deity in no time. Pious and peaceful as you like.
So, as you may have gathered I have lived a life marred by considerable violence and saturated with drugs and crime; I'm not sure if I can ever come back completely from that. I am going to try, I think I am a nice person and others seem to also, but soldiers come back from wars after 2 or 3 years, shell shocked with PTSD. I lived that for 10 years; since I left school at 14 to sell drugs. I knew nothing except violence and drugs and crime and criminals. I saw beatings, stabbings, shootings. I saw police brutality. I have seen all the things that middle class people are terrified of when all they have to do is see them in black and white in the paper. But that killer you saw in the paper; I know him. That crack dealer; he lived on my street. That dead prostitute; I went to school with her. That unsolved gangland killing; I know who did that. I have not had the luxury of distance like so many people do and even they are scared and scarred. I don't know whether the proximity to the dirt and filth in the gutter I grew up in will make me a stronger or weaker person or if it will just leave me desensitised to things other people would run from. But I am pretty certain that I can't just walk out of my past and act like it hasn't shaped who I am. Because it has. It may possibly have ruined me completely.
Mexican Wave Goodbye!
It must be the prolonged exposure that does the damage as I once spent time in jail in the land of sombreros and small yappy dogs. That could have scared a man to death if it was one incident that made you crack. This certainly would anyway. You know (or maybe you don't) how there is always a brief nanosecond before you really wake up somewhere you shouldn't be when your subconscious calls you and idiot and you're not sure why but you have a funny feeling that things didn't really go your way last night. I had one particularly memorable morning of that sort. Waking I arched my back and cracked it; it was stiff from laying on the cold concrete in my boxer shorts, my neck ached from using a pillow that wasn't fit for purpose; unsurprising as it was merely the rest of my clothes bundled up. My right thigh itched in a way that I recognised. Tattoo. I haven't been here before but I have been here before. I sat up, my Chelsea boots were by my feet, assured of that I surveyed the comparatively large 20'x 12' cell and tried to figure out what, where, why, when and how. Only moonlight shining through a small window lit the cell and so I could barely make out other figures in various states of slumber and repose. A brown faced teenager smiled and laughed, "Que Paso, Americano?"
"Wha.. Oh, Er no. English. Hablo poco espanol. Hola"
"Si, hola amigo".
He just smiled and nodded. Understanding that the gringo was but a harmless fool. As happens flashes of what might have happened start flitting back and forth like a faulty TV screen. The previous night I remember being separated from the Mexican inmates, probably for fear I would be attacked, or drunk as I was, get myself rightfully beaten up. To quote a line from the film 'Boyz in Da Hood' "those SA's was cool tho'". We made what conversation we could through the bars and then at some point I was thrown in with them, I stripped down and went to sleep. I have spent enough time in prison cells, holding cells, and prison waiting rooms to be able to grasp in an instant if anything might kick off. It was safe here. I stayed in there 3 days before we were given any water or food. One kid got a sandwich passed to him by an inmate passing by with a mop. He broke it in half and gave it to me with a nod and a grin that made him look like the Joker from Batman. I accepted and thanked him, first in English then in Spanish. I returned the favour later when the British consul gave me a pack of biscuits and a drink of water. Me and him got along well. Food in there had to be eaten with your nose held as the 'toilet' was just a hole in the floor. Nobody used it due to the inch deep seepage that surrounded it for a good half yard. It's actually a strange phenomenon I have found to be true in many prisoners (because we talk about this stuff). When you first get locked up or arrive at a new jail you don't need to defecate for 3 or 4 days. You're not avoiding it you just don't need to go, it must be something about the stress of a new prison that blocks you up. Maybe someone could do a thesis on it one day.
Eventually I was taken out of the holding cells to, I hoped, freedom. In actuality it was to prison. Or at least the remand/non-sentenced part of the jail. Thinking back I don't know why I wasn't the least bit nervous. I have done my fair share of time but this was my first time in a foreign jail with real pirates and very few people that I could communicate with and I didn't know the rules, but I was actually pretty calm. This section of the prison itself was attached to a larger, and apparently much more dangerous part of the prison for people who had been sentenced in court. People were beheaded in that part by the Los Zetas gang; read the news about Mexico. It's not even an oddity anymore. Thankfully this section wasn't as bad.
The compound was about the size of two garage forecourts. Right at the back was just one enormous structure. A hollowed out, concrete rectangle. Basically just a giant pen with regulation prison gates to lock us up at night. The rest of the space was the exercise yard where you could walk around and sit in red plastic Coca-Cola chairs that were squidgy from the heat. And to prove what they say about mad dogs and Englishmen I was the only one to go out and bask in the midday sun. It was by no means a well kept yard. By that I mean it wasn't manufactured. It was just rubble and grit and boulders, and surprisingly a barbecue stand outside the main building. Cool. The armed screw (guard) opened the gate and introduced me to the most stereotypical Mexican gangsters Hollywood could ever dream up. I swear one was in a poncho and the other had a Zapata moustache. They were both thickset, thicker round the middle than anywhere else, and straight from the pages of a casting directors 'Book of Actors Fit to Play Mexican Tough guys'. "This is Juan and Paulo" the screw informed me, "They run this place".
"NOT ANYMORE MOTHERFUCKERS I SCREAMED AT THEM". Not really. We shook hands and they used a Brazilian named Leo to translate and told me "Right, if you give nobody trouble then nobody will trouble you. If you have a bit of money we all chip in and the guards go to the market and bring us beer and ice, better food, you know, for barbecues and stuff". It was late by now and so before long everyone found their spot on the floor – or hammock for the bosses – and we settled in for the night. I was given my bedding and a spot on the tarpaulin on the floor and I settled in as best I could. Right, well, I thought: Mexican Jail. This is new.To keep the cold night air out we had an enormous canvas billboard that we pulled across the gates. It helped but they were some of the worst night's sleeps I have had in my life. Just a wafer thin bedroll and a scraggy brown blanket that had probably last been washed around the time Joseph was courting Mary. In fact I think it was on the donkey's back when they carried the pregnant Mary to the manger. Time in there passed OK. I had a few beers, smoked some hash, which I don't usually do, but it seemed like a time for out of the ordinary experiences; which they definitely were when I sat watching TV so stoned that I couldn't tell whether it was Spanish or English dialogue! After a day or so the only other white man in the place introduced himself; Dave and American ex-marine. Although considering the amount of ex-US Navy Marine commandoes and ex-Royal Navy Marine commandoes I have met in jail I wouldn't bet my favourite piece of chewing gum on that claim being true. He was handy to have around though. He got me a newspaper at one point. I couldn't read it but on the second page was a large photo of my old food share buddy from the holding cells. A photo of him brandishing two dangerous looking semi-automatic handguns, and it apparently read that the authorities had finaly captured El Payaso, the Clown as he was known on the streets. He was apparently already in the main jail as he was implicated in a number of drug related killings. Still, he shared his sandwich with an unknown stranger so there must be a little good in everyone. Me and Dave passed the time of day, could understand each other perfectly and he managed to score me a few English Novels to read too; a western, something Sci-Fi, The DaVinci Code. Not my cup of tea but I was glad as could be to have something to read. I got engrossed in those books, in my sweaty, squishy, melting red chair and caught quite a nice tan doing it. I was in my element. Well, most of the time... "Hey gringo, Taco baby. You want some of me? You like this?" I heard as I was reading about the evil Injuns trying to stop the cowboys from claming their rightful land. Ripples of laughter, guffaws and chuckles reverberated around the yard and I looked up to see the drunk tank, opposite us, separated (thankfully) by some wire fencing. A transsexual prostitute with 3 day stubble and gigantic bags of toxic gel beneath the skin of her pectorals was hanging out the window giving me a display. She obviously liked the bookish types. "Come get some Honey. Come on white boy" she screeched as she jiggled and juggled her wares at me. I just cracked up like everyone else. Just as a scene, a memory. That bearded, breasted Desperate Dan look-a-like, offering me a freebie as I sat in a Mexican jail with a faux-ex-marine and a genuine, actual pirate (he was so well connected he bought the old guard tower and had it converted into a penthouse for himself. He'd come down daily and conduct business at a table in the yard with ledger books and 4 mobile phones). It just struck me as probably the oddest situation I have ever been in. It was like a weird scene that you would never predict happening. "Gracia Bonita, but this book is really hotting up. Maybe next time OK?" she feigned disappointment and that brightened the day up no end. Mostly that is all it was sitting round waiting to get my bail paid and get out. There was one hairy moment. We had our own kitchen, complete with meat cleavers and butchers knives which obviously constitute a serious risk in a jail full of violent criminals. Me and Leo, the Brazilian didn't get along.From day 1 we rubbed each other up the wrong way. He had been in a long time so he was friends with all the main players. We just clashed over minor things and it was bound to come to something. One day, as I sat stoned from cheap Mexican hash he started giving me some crap over an imagined slight. I ignored him and told him to leave me alone and stop being a dick while I was stoned. As I have said, you can't show weakness and he took my stoned indifference as just that. I wasn't scared of him, but fighting in a Mexican jail stoned half to a coma; that doesn't rank high on my list of good ideas. "So what? You want to fight? That what you want?" he challenged. It took less than a second to reply calmly and stand up "Yeah, you fucking pussy, Let's bang"
"Ah, me? Or everyone?" He said, which showed immediately that he didn't really want to fight. It was bravado and he was hoping I would back down at the idea of everyone backing him up. Unfortunately for him I think others had also got sick of his constant Kanye-West-next-best-thing-to-Jesus routine. "Just you Leo, let's go" He swung a punch that he advertised so early I would have known it was coming from reading my horoscope. I just parried it, headbutted him and jabbed him in his jaw. Then a group of other inamtes jumped up and separated us. Nothing rough, just pulled us apart. I think considering we were in a jail with barbecues, beer and weed nobody wanted any serious trouble. We were in a relatively comfy boat that didn't need rocking. I sat back and down and Leo, who was taller than me and took the headbutt to the mouth spat blood into a rag, looking annoyed. That night was a tense one for me. As I said, I didn't know the rules. As we bedding down I grabbed a sharp knife with a 6" blade and slept with it by my side, convinced I was going to teamed up on in the night. I was prepred to die in a Mexican jail but not without someone getting taken down with me. Fortunately nothing happened though, so I had to sneak it back again so as not to look like I was carrying a blade round the place. Eventually bail got paid through numerous routes and I was free. I said bye to those I had made friends with, gave Dave a man hug and even shook Leo's hand. I was going back to Blighty (after a night in immigration).
It amazed me how relaxed it was in there, considering Mexico is often considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world I felt safer in that jail than I have in a lot of British ones. The small scuffle me and Leo had, had it happened in HMP Leeds between two Brits would not have been left unfinished. Someone would have been slashed up or had boiling water mixed with sugar (to increase its viscosity) thrown in their faces. Barely a day goes by in a normal sized British prison without at least one person needing stitches and more being bandaged up. In Mexico they knew how to keep people peaceful. One nice thing they had was each Sunday was family day. The prisoner's families, men, women, old and young were allowed into the compound to see their loved ones and bring them home cooked food (and probably other contraband). Obviously I didn't have family over there but I was invited to eat, made to feel welcome and made friends with a little 7 year old Mexican boy called Chucho who showed me his toy train,I flirted with a beautiful Mexican girl with slanted eyes,high, native American cheekbones and flawless skin. That lasted until I realised I had no idea who she was associated with and I may well get myself lynched! It was a nice time though, and it kept people settled. Everyone was respectful to each other's families. Also, allegedly, if you were married (or bribed a guard) you could have a woman visit and have a private cell for a few hours. That is how you stop prison violence Mr Chief Inspector Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of British Prisons.
Having spent time in Mexican prisons and Her Maj's I think having such a thing as family day is one of the reasons why I witnessed (almost) no violence in the former and bouts of almost daily, violence of the most horrific and extreme kinds in the latter. In Britain visits can be a hellish experience. Some visitors can turn up hours earlier than visitation hours start only to be kept waiting for further hours whilst the inmate is brought from the wing or forgotten about by a screw who has left him locked in his cell; because unless it is a decent screw they don't let you out for your visit. They just shout your surname and "VISIT!!" as though you can unlock your door yourself. For those lucky few that do get the full hour with their family there is no physical contact allowed except a brief hug, and this can cause immense distress and anger to an inmate who has waited a fortnight to see a loved one. Even when they go smoothly they are rarely longer than a couple of hours (in a low security prison) with minimal physical contact allowed and in the worst case separated by a Perspex screen. I don't believe this system works as it allows no opportunity for a release of tension; a break from the aggressive, testosterone fuelled, 100% male environment that the British inmate lives in. Subsequently a continuous build up of testosterone and frustration manifests itself as an act of violence or wanton destruction. I am not suggesting that British prisons should exactly emulate Mexican ones, it patently wouldn't work, failing that, fun, humane visits where inmates and visitors alike are treated like humans would be a vast improvement. Mexican family day lasts from around 11am until 5pm. British prison visit last an hour but you usually get 45 minutes maximum.
Incidentally I was in there after a major stitch up. I can admit when I am in the wrong. At 19 I went to jail for an armed robbery and possession of firearms charge and I was entirely culpable and aware of the consequence. This time it was a joke. Some Mexican beggar started harassing me for money late at night, constantly, getting closer, grabbing at my jacket, so eventually I just pushed him away hard and he stumbled, started screaming I was attacking him and a copper came running round the corner and nicked me for robbery and assault. Robbery on a penniless beggar. That's the dangerous thing over there. To them, if you are a Westerner and especially if you are white, you are rich. So the policeman knew the score. He makes the arrest, I have to pay bail of about £3000 and he gets probably the equivalent of 6 months wages, splitting it with his boss. If you are out at night, or driving a rented a car they are all out to arrest you for drunk driving or something. It's all money in their pocket. I just wish police over here could be bribed so easily cause at least then I would have probably been guilty for what I was payng my way out of! Not that they can't still be bribed sadly I don't have the kind of money that Rupert Murdoch has at his disposal! He should probably have hired me a long time ago come to think of it. Most of his staff were crooks and hacks with little in the way of finesse with prose. I would have been the perfect candidate to work for The Sun. Hell, if Murdoch won't hire me who will? They say you can leave your past behind and have a fresh start but that's not true. Not unless you were in a position of power before you fell. If you were already lower than everybody else a job is harder to find than a set of 38DD cups in a Mexican jail and we know that can't ever happen. Seriously though. the truth is, that people do not allow you to forget where you came from. Once you have messed up, that is with you for LIFE. It doesn't matter how many degrees you get, how many jobs interviews you have, how many probation courses you do, how long you stay clean for. There will always be certain people and situations where that is dragged back up again to condescend to you and put you on your back foot. They will talk about the worst of you, talk about your wrong doing, your evil, your violence. Even if they have been sat with you for 5 hours happily laughing and joking and loving you out. When the time comes, they will remind you of who you are and what your place is. I can vouch for that. I don't need money or a job anyway. I've got Booksie and a Kindle to keep me tied up for hours!
The Revolution Will Not Be Published on E-Readers
It's not all doom and gloom and prison and despair. I have had some beautiful times with some beatific people. Recently I was dating the sister of a well known former Hollywood actress. She has moved back to the UK now and acts in dramas mostly. Her sister grew up in her shadow and it shows, but she is sincere, and clear and I do miss her; Cordelia. She was my first older woman, as I was 25 and she was 46 and she taught me a lot about life and music and culture and I will always think of her when I hear Angie by the Rolling Stones. Together we managed to catch something that I would have regretted missing for the rest of my life. I am atheist. I have no belief or interest in God as long as Science exists. Nevertheless probably the most spiritual I have ever felt, 'the closest to the the spirits' in an atheistic way was when I saw Gil Scott Heron live just a year before he died. There was a moment, right at the beginning, when he loped on stage with his ill fitting brown suit hanging off him, his sloppy hat perched on his head and that real goofy grin plastered across his face… And it was, and I know the whole place felt this, it was magnificent. The place went insane. The biggest standing ovation I have ever heard and he hadn't even reached the mic or spoken a word. All around me, people were looking at Gil, then looking at each other as if for confirmation, all the time clapping and jumping. Pointing and shouting. People were hugging each other. DAMN, it had been 16 years and for half of those he was thought to be dead! A living legend had just appeared before us, himself not long out of jail after suffering from a serious cocaine addiction and all the strife that brings. I know I wasn't the only one who had tears in my eyes seeing him stood there, so much older than his years though he looked. And I know I am not the only person who still tears up remembering it. That was one of the best moments of my life and probably always will be. Gil Scott Heron. His baritone could have made thunder claps shut up and listen.
Women are one of my favourite things in the world. There was a time when I was a less respectful man, a more of a drug dealing, take what you can man when I would always have 3 or 4 women on the go. Sometimes 'being with' three a day. Now I have matured, and known life without them, I see they are what hold the world together. They are all things, and different things and without them men would be basically fucked (or not, to be crass).
After eventually getting home and spending a day or thereabouts seeing family and assuring them I was fine I decided to go house-sitting. I felt like I needed to be alone for a while and I knew my grandparents were away for at least three weeks. I grabbed less than what I needed and called a taxi to the train station. I am sure that there I met an angel a ghost though I don't believe in either. A beautiful girl sat next to me and engaged me in conversation; I must look talkative or friendly. She was a writer. A journalist of her own life pen dancing across pages in a ledger. She wrote about her past because she said it was cathartic, but when she wrote about a period when she nearly didn't make it through she tore it up and threw it away but was still glad she wrote about it still. Her name was Grace, beautiful at 23 years old; a black spiritualist from London. She was sat next to me at the train station and after I had asked her if my train was due she told me it had left, only seconds ago. I laughed and told her I now had to wait two hours for another one in the freezing cold on a Sunday with no money. She told me later that right at that point she marked me for a good person because I burst out laughing when discovering I had run into misfortune. She had two and a half hours to wait for her bus so we started talking. She complained of the cold and I told her it was warmer in the café and she suggested we sit there. We shared two hours of our time during which I made her cry laughing with impressions of Yorkshiremen visiting London and she compared me to David from the bible, but not on account of my impressions. Within the space of 45 minutes we were holding hands and cuddling. She told me the next few years might be hard for me, but not to worry because it would turn out OK, even though I hadn't mentioned any of the stuff going on that was likely to turn out pretty un-OK. I am yet to find out if she is right or not as I am only just 32. She told me she was going to miss me when I got my train and hinted that I should wait for the next one so as we could spend more time together. I declined; another regret. When I left we hugged for an inordinately long time, both saying we didn't want to let go. We kissed and I left. What I find strange is that again neither of us made an attempt to find a way to stay in contact; telephone, Email etc. But in an unspoken way, at the time we both knew that was the right thing to do. It would have stolen some of the magic of the time we shared, magic that I am not articulate enough to repeat here, because if I tried and I repeated our conversation, It would steal some of the magic of the time we shared. I don't really know what happened but it was like a spiritual sedative and we both felt it. I sort of regret it now though. She was right when she said we wouldn't forget each other. When my train did come I spent the money I needed to go sign on at the dole office the next day paying for atrain ticket for a, yet again very tactile, girl from Wales who had lost all her money and was stranded in Yorkshire on her way to visit a friend. She sat beside me on the bus and engaged in conversation about the area she was visiting. I could have taken her back to my grandparents empty house with little effort but recently I have realised that I have stopped indiscriminately hitting on girls. Not too long ago I would have hit each and every one up for some sort of liaison. Now I need more. Anyway, now it was my turn the next day to be stranded indoors because I missed my appointment and had no means of getting bus fare to attend another appointment, should I make one. My friend said I was stupid to buy a stranger a train ticket. I think it was the right thing to do. I have been stranded before and it isn't nice when it's cold and dark and nobody is there to give a shit or help you out. I don't know why so many seemingly sane and usually attractive single women trust me enough to approach me and spend time with me, going as far as hugging and holding hands, when I am a complete stranger. I am not particularly good looking and I am dead broke now selling drugs is off the agenda. I like to think that despite all the chaos and violence (always against equally violent men may I add) something still remains entact that lets people know I am not just a thug or a criminal. That I might even be quite pleasant. I'd like that to be true.
Broke as a Joke and it ain't Funny
Nevertheless, time has passed since then, Maybe a year. Two I think. Again, this is how I find myself here in the present. How I got here from the more distant past is one of those ways in which time seemingly makes loops and twirls and you can't keep track. Here I sit, after making the same mistakes over and over as I career madly from one crisis to the next without meaning to and without learning from the consequences of my mistakes but always getting into unusual situations and picaresque adventure-problems. At the moment I am at rock bottom. I am not eating well, if at all, I am taking far less care of my appearance than I used to; Before I got locked up again I would choose my outfits carefully everyday, always looked well groomed, now I just pick up whatever is on the floor when I get out bed; usually what I wore the previous day and probably the day before that then I just throw on my ratty overcoat and some broken down shoes, because none of my shoes are new. Sometimes just clothes and a bath robe because I don't intend to leave the house. Jail (UK) was fine. I have friends in there, in fact most of my friends are in there, I read a lot, go to the gym, I always get the best jobs because I have a degree and I know how to work the system but since getting out I feel down and out. I can't function as I could before. Telephones make me anxious. I don't know when or why this has occurred as I have never had any beef with a telephone that I couldn't handle. There is no reason. I am anxious all the time, constantly depressed. Inside I feel dishevelled and threadbare like one of Kerouacs Bowery bums. So. How did I get from here to where I came from. As I wrote in my litle biog I was the offspring of a heroin addict father who I never knew (I was in jail with him once but between the choice of going on his wing or seeing my boys, I decided not to meet my father for the for the first time - he never made the effort so I wasn't going to either).
My memories of growing up start pretty late. Aside from a few flashes and images my tape recorder doesn't really switch on until I hit adolescence. I am guessing that maybe this writing stuff takes more than typing. Introspection and meditation and deep bouts of solipsism are probably needed to sweep up the memory reel long buried under the dust and dirt and corruption from the floor of my skull's room cutting room floor. I remember being babysat at around 6 years old by my mother's friend's who took me out picking hallucinogenic mushrooms at the local park. I didn't realise until I was older why was sent to pick them but wasn't allowed any of the mushroom soup. I remember finding lumps of brown stuff in tin foil in the kitchen draws and whichever boyfriend was around said it was rabbit poop and I couldn't touch it. It was cannabis, not heroin. That is about it. I don't remember much until I was 13 years old and at high school.
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Very efficient. I will just wait an see if it gets read now
Really enjoyed the read. A very honost, raw and open piece, it had me captivated all way through. Looking forward to reading more from you, keep me updated!
Wow1 That was interesting. You really opted to wear the emperor's new clothes versus being tricked into wearing them as this was raw and opened from start to finish. I enjoyed reading about the mexican prison. though it was prison, I sensed this peaceful serenity despite the scuuffle with Leo. did he take well to your handshake when you left? I was curious about that. Very good and I look forward to reading more.
I only read the 'Mexican Wave Goodbye' bit (I'll read the rest). One thing I noticed about you from the offset is that you're really cool in what would seem to be very uptight situations. Of course you've had experience in jail, but it'd still seem like a hellish place (or in Britain as you'd said). Another thing I loved was how funny you were. I laughed out loud several times. The defecation bit (maybe someone will do a thesis on it), the stereotypical mexican gangsters, and the funniest bit I thought was the Tranny offering it to you while you were reading (this book is hotting up, not right now). I laughed so hard at that. And you've taught me several things I didn't know about jail (specifically Mexican jails). You have a great sense of atmosphere when writing about the jail, and I really felt like I was there. I didn't necessarily wanna be there (haha), but you made it durable and kept me entertained. It needs some editing done to fix some grammar, but as a story (wordwise), its great and I'll enjoy reading the rest of this and whatever else you write.
Nick Edward: Yeah, my grammar is never too good because I type it out fast as I think it, but then I daren't proof read it afterwards because that is why nothing else I have written exists. I write it, read it, and think it's garbage and delete it. So now I just use a spell check and put it out there.
Skinnylittlebra5: Leo was translating to tell me I was going home so I think we were both pretty glad about that!
The system of justice is rigged, it sickens me! You were defending yourself against a mob of thugs! It was so unfair! If anyone deserves a second or fifth chance it is you.
What really got me laughing was the Mexican tranny and when you said "NOT ANYMORE MOTHERFUCKERS!" followed by "Not really."
I lived in Mexico for 10 years. Seems easier to find people with a heart over there. Though there are plenty of unpredictable beasts too (I've seen some monsters). Reading about your experiences rang with familiarity from things I heard from my relatives and the experiences of people who had been to jail.
I must agree with the observations. The Brits could learn from the Mexicans in allowing prisoners some form of sensory relief from all the hostility. If you deprive men of affection, it's no wonder they hulk out and go beastial! How are they supposed to become better people without human affection to soothe their hearts?
Their treatment in prison at times makes me think there is a behind-the-scenes conspiracy to engineer super soldiers incapable of emotion out of inmates, or something.
I must also agree with how people do not let your forget your previous mistakes. No wonder many strive for a tabula rasa (blank slate). The opportunity to start over like in a video game. It's no wonder how books, movies and video games are effective tools for escapism.
The anecdote with Grace was beautiful. It read like a true love story but more sincere and without the dumb cliches and cheesy lines. Hopefully you find her again, even if realistically the odds of that are few.
The one part that struck my heartstrings was when Grace said you were a good man because (paraphrasing) you burst out laughing in the face of misfortune. That really made me reconsider how I look at life.
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