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| Lou Reed, 1942-2013 appearing in Málaga, Spain, 2008 Wikipedia photo |
underground
in Israel
there lives a velvet spider
whose unkempt webs
are spun of
wooly silk.
hardworking,
energetic
spider, this one
is named loureedia
Kay Davies, Nov. 29, 2013
Lou Reed's music spanned six generations and was influential in more ways than I or Wikipedia can count. His late-1960s group The Velvet Underground is considered one of the most influential in the history of rock music despite its lack of commercial success.
A species of velvet spider that lives underground in Israel was named Loureedia in 2012.
Still performing in 2011 and 2012, Lou Reed died of liver disease in October, 2013, at the age of 71. At the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, my friend Marian has invited Toads and other contributors to write about Reed, his music, his city (New York), or anything else we can think of in connection with the man, his work, or his life.
7 comments:
this is cool, Kay - a spider for Lou. ~
Isn't that so crazy? The spider I mean. Very clever poem--thanks for telling us about it. K.
I thought you were kidding about the spider until I read your notes! Wonder what Lou Reed thought of having a spider named after him?
Perfect likening, Kay...the underlying velvet webbing of the net of music Lou created spanning over such a great time period...amazing and I really enjoyed your poem.
Well! Don't that beat all? Velvet. Underground. Wild.
Wow Kay this is great and interesting about the spider
Clever play on words here, kay.
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