Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Being old

And grumpy

But not as famously

Grumpy

As you

And not

Being as old

As you are

Either

Or as old as you were

I came into

The action

When you released

'Transformer'

Which blew me away

An album

That you either owned

Or you were Mary

Whitehouse

Or didn't like music

That led me

To The Velvet Underground

And a back

Catalogue

Of great albums

There are some

On line opportunities

To list your

Favourite

Lou Reed songs

I don't see that

As a viable option

And the very obvious

Walk

On the Wild Side

Is bound to

Prevail over some

Other predictable

Choices

Like Perfect Day

My favourite

Lou Reed album

Has to be

New York

A fully joined up

And integrated

Piece of work that

Flows from the first

Track

To the last

That's what we

Called them

Back in our

Days

Not 'songs' but 'tracks'

Pieces of a

Whole body of

Work by a

Songwriter

Or songwriting team

And New York

Is just a wonderful

And one hundred percent

Complete

Set of songs

As good as

Any other that

Comes to mind

Ever

In history

You were mates

With Andy Warhol

And Nico and

John

Cale, cooler than cool

A particularly

Fantastic thing was that

Despite growing old you

Never

Became stale

Or churned out

The same old same old

But insisted on

Innovation

And moving on

Relentlessly pushing

The boundaries

Rather than churning out what

Would

Sell loads of copies

By the way

Is the rumour true

Was that really you on the

Cover

Of Transformer

In drag?