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Iggy Pop & Lou Reed

by dreams-of-sepia

Iggy & Lou, my iron angels I do love you two I am your sister now schooled in experience a Passenger a Transformer of dark days though, Lou they never tried to fry my brain thank god Iggy, what did you do when you were bored locked up what did you do to shock them I want to see your notes & what they wrote what havoc you caused if you tried to jump over the fence Boys, no matter how they treated you your music still came out they couldn't stop you & they won't stop me for with you, I am free donning my leather strutting my stuff spitting words out like charcoal & grit through the night's backside
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dreams-of-sepia
Published
Sep 2, 2015
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I trust everyone knows who Iggy Pop & Lou Reed are. Iggy Pop was sectioned in hospital at the height of his fame, when he was also writing his most controversial music, apparently criticizing the government. Lou Reed was given electroshock therapy for apparent schizophrenia because his family did not understand his personality.  I have been in similar situations & what's more, as a poet, it happened to me at a pivotal stage in my career & when instead of receiving protection, because I'd had my life threatened because of it & was afraid, I was locked up in hospital as mentally ill for it.

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#genius#creativity#torture#psychiatry#subversion#survivors#loureed#iggypop
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