Poem: Not A Perfect Day

A poem inspired by the Lou Reed song…

This might seem silly, but, I remember playing
Lou Reed’s Transformer and Richard shook his head
at that line about being hit with the flower; he said
that was fucking stupid. And I said, ‘but it’s a quote
from Andy Warhol, in fact it was a challenge. He dared
Lou to write a song with that line, and I think Lou Reed
nailed the assignment’.

Richard said he hated the way I loved all “that faggot shit”.

And I remember telling him that it didn’t matter at all, and
why would you say that, and he reckoned that anyone
that liked Transformer was obviously a fag. And I said
that I wasn’t, but so what if I was. And he said, “You better
not be, because if you are I would fucking destroy you mate.
So you better fucking not be”. Made me like the album more.

And him a whole lot less

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