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Issue 25, July 1994
Poetic justice
Back in January '94, an article about Simon in the Evening Standard, an English newspaper, caused quite a stir. So much so that Simon himself wrote a poem in reply.
A pop singer writes...
Re: Stitch up in your fashion pages (25 January).
I could only laugh
at your impotence and rage
'Cheese and wine party' what bourgeois manner
it betrays you - and your age
Better stitch yourself up a pair of fingerless gloves
to warm them aching joints
and your tired, resentful prose
Hurtful?
No...
Just dull.
Remember me
from the indignance of your dotage
Coz while you're till sitting in that creaky mocking chair
looking forward to the measly state pension that
John Major saw fit
I'll be on the road
and happy as a pig in shit.
Simon le Bon, Duran Duran, Manchester Square, W1
or as you would have him, 'Porky the Pig with a bad yellow wig'.
(taken from: The Evening Standard, 28 January 1994)
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