Nico took me on a trip
across a leatherette couch
at young Mr Warhol’s
last gallery party
We sipped old absinthe
from filthy egg cups
with that desert blast
from Jim’s
selfish rasps of eremic air
played back through
Andy’s Bang and Olufsen
speakers
We didn’t talk that much
My wet mouth was fixed
upon her age-pitted skin
There was a second time
but she was not counting
scores in ninety eighty-one
once punks stole her songs
Tag: music
The Wanted Ad
Some things are more important
than ability..
that line a would-be band leader penned
when pinned in by the curtain-drswn
suburbs of – perhaps – outer London –
or from behind striped drapes of Oldham?
Such calls followed the loss of real music
to MTV’s cathode-fixing rays
and her pure love of riffable looks –
so much so that artists succumbed
to that two quid call in WANTED –
in the NME – and more for
‘Smiths, Commotions ..
and or Pet Shop Boys ..’
yet unfound by any other bands –
They needed a bassist – smiling
whilst the drummer they required
would not be seen – just sitting
C-90
I ask her, Alexa,
for Prefab Sprout,
as I sip my coffee,
dipping in a playlist
first small-written
on C-90 inserts,
and turned to ten
on an Aiwa stereo,
then sounding
less compressed,
back then,
in those simpler sips.
God On My Dock
I was stacking a truck –
of dance-floored audio –
me – twenty-something
at Shepperton Studios –
Martin ‘Philishaves’ –
those deep-throated bins –
and Midas-touched mixing desks
ramp-trundled in –
The Thin White Duke
crossed our case-crammed dock –
suit-booted for filming –
that beautiful God –
Even the toughest
of my fellow-fagged roadies
awed-to-stillness –
he halted truck-loading
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