At the dinner party I’ve been put between a woman
with early onset dementia, who keeps asking me
my name, and the cleaning lady who they always
invite to show that no one here is snobbish, and
opposite a man with a pronounced dark wart
opposite a man with a pronounced dark wart
beside his hairy earlobe. It’s going, I thought,
swimmingly, until someone mentions Nico, the
iconic singer with the Velvet Underground, who
it turns out the wart man once interviewed for
a magazine in Manchester. He can’t remember
a magazine in Manchester. He can’t remember
the details
what she said or why it mattered
but he recalls she was very striking, Nico
.
Steven Taylor
.