Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020

The god-awful small affair that Bowie mentioned seems to have lasted a lifetime -  this year

I turned older than Billie Holiday ever did. I’ll never make as many records as Todd Rundgren could

in one year. I’d never dare to try. I wrote a book and no one really had a look – or did they?

Because once it’s out there it’s never enough. I carried on in the wak…