The Slimming World

This slimming world hath slain me!

I stand before you,

a broken Lou Reed,

hangdog emptypacketed,

haunted leather jacketed.

So Hank Marvin I'm a shadow,

a sad skellington at the feast:

this meagre supper

of unspeakably vulgar

bulgur wheat

and schnozzleberries.

But at least I can fit

inside these fucking jeans!

B.R. 30.07.2022

Lou Reed pictured sometime in the 1980s, before his unexpected casting as Frank Butcher in the BBC's flagship soap opera Eastenders led to a mid-career renaissance.