failing to make it large (in an enlightened society)

"Clive Davis
the legendary record producer and guiding light
in the music industry, told me I should put more
sex

in my songs if I wanted to be big in the business.
I thought about that
and not so long after wrote a little
something with

a lyric about how I’d done it with a seventeen
stone (two hundred and thirty eight pounds)
rugby player

in my TR6
two seater sports car with his legs
on my shoulders, love and hunger in our hearts

just think about that
if I’d sent it to Clive back in ’75
everything could have been different "

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