wild east

FrankIt was a tiny flat with one room and while we were drinking their mother was sleeping in a bed in the corner of the same room.This was a tiny town on the edge of nothing much and these guys said there was nothing to do there except drink and buy pirate CDs. And we listened to Lou Reed and we drank and after a while I said I had to go and they said go where and I said I just have to go because I had18started to think who are these guys, and a while back one of them had taken out a knife to cut up a piece of bread. So I left and I was standing in the middle of this place and it was summer, so it wasn't cold but it was dark, and I thought I would go and walk in the forest to clear my head and then I would go to the station and wait for a train. I walked to the edge of this forest and I sat and watched the sun come up, the most enormous sun, and then I felt I would just take a look in the forest. And then you know what happened next? One bit of forest looks exactly like another and, Jesus, I started to realise those guys in the flat had had my interests at heart when they tried to stop me because, well, no one knew I was in the forest and it probably covered a thousand miles and I was lost in it and after eight hours I began to cry and I thought I am never going to get out of here alive. I thought how stupid I was And how I would miss people and how thirsty I was. Then I must have fallen asleep because I woke up and it was much colder and darker and one of my eyes must have been bitten 'cos I couldn't open it, and I became convinced I was going to die for real, and then I thought I better make the most of my last hours so I sucked some dew off some leaves and I just lay looking up at the trees and I realised that at least I was dying in the most beautiful place on the earth. Because this forest was, well, very beautiful and this time as the sun came up I could hear birds. And then I realised that I was being a prick and I had to make an effort so I dragged myself up and I chose a direction. I just made a choice and I walked and walked and two hours later I was at the train station.