Last Night

Last night I read Steve Kilbey's blog (http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_stevekilbey_archive.html), traversing through his long, confounding poem/diary entries and getting nowhere, til I found one posted in May about the death of Grant McLennan. Oh boy, did it kill me. I haven't cried like that in a long time, the tears really hurt, and you could tell that Kilbey was upset to, confessing that the last time he spoke to Grant he blew him off because he was too busy. I fixed myself a drink, rum and coke, and drank at the computer for the first time and then I wrote a small paragraph about losing it. I've never felt like strumming a guitar more in my life. In Grant's words, and Kilbey's title of the blog entry, 'a teenage rasputin takes a sting from a gin'.