When I was 19 I bought a guitar for £20 and called it Wendle. Here’s me and Wendle at Lake Bled in 2007 >

That’s the context.

Because I am not Wendle, I am Maté

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…yesterday

Yesterday I believed ‘inherent’ was a foundation, one made of something tauter than all the bridges on this river. . […]

I looked out at Brighton from the back window of my neighbour’s fourth floor flat. There was fog. The sky […]

The sea is green and the sky is grey. The inbetween is white and then there is no inbetween. The […]