LOU READ

‘Read seeds not twigs’

                                       Ezra Pound

Reading W.S. Merwin selected translations,this is my stab in the dark, from the mean streets.

Everyone should read Lou Reed over and over and over.

I’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are

‘Between thought and expression’, ‘pass thru fire’.

Somebody else would have broken both of her arms

That’s the difference between wrong and right

Shows just how wrong you can be.

Lou Reed gave me everything, everything and more

Pale blue eyes, that I just don’t know

And that’s the long and short of it.

There’s nobody but you, inside my thoughts

as the rhythmic thoughts subside.

Different colour’s made of tears, nobody called

In a way you’re the best friend I ever had.

The image of the poet is in the breeze

Canadian geese are flying over trees

A mist is hanging gently on the lake

Our house is very beautiful tonight.

Wash the razor in the rain

I’m waiting for my man.