Thanks. Pretty wild ride on Sarin, Pat!
Bill
> On 6 Nov 2013, at 6:41 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Bill still 'on the wild side'
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 05 November 2013 19:54
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> Subject: The Day Lou Reed Died
>
> The Day Lou Reed Died
>
> Not a Perfect Day for liver-ravaged Lou
> or perhaps it was, surrounded bedside
> by friends and family, as reported.
>
> Lou's 'Transformer' was on constantly
> at a party I went to in Balwyn one night,
> in 1973 it must have been. And I mean
>
> someone just put the stylus back on
> as soon as 'Goodnight Ladies' finished.
> Didn't sound repetitive; we just got more
>
> and more absorbed in that brittle world.
> Finishing playing pool in a sunken rumpus
> room later, no one could find the light switch
>
> so John Kenneth simply punched the globe,
> shattering it and leaving little shards on cloth.
> Back upstairs they were still listening to Lou.
>
> 'Sa - da - lite of love ...'
>
> Leaving the party, scenes of disarray -
> overflowing ashtrays and spilled drinks
> and in the corner on a beanbag, Jim H
>
> coiled up, headphones on,
> still wild siding with Lou.
> Vale Transformer.
>
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