David Bowie's death had a profound affect on me so I thought
you might like to see the illustration I did as a part of the book HeadworX
published last year, to wit, 'Main Trunk Lines: Collected Railway Poems of
Michael O'Leary'.
A whole section of the book is dedicated to David Bowie:
'Station to Station - a cognac for David'.
Below is an excerpt from my
autobiography Die Bibel which I proffer by way of explanation:
A place we went to a lot was the Ariyoshi, Auckland’s
first Japanese restaurant, where fellow poet, Sandra Bell, worked as a
waitress. We would go to lunch there and drink sake, a lovely drink that I
often used to have at home, heating it in a pot: the vapours rising towards
your nose were sublime. When David Bowie came to film ‘Merry Christmas Mister
Lawrence’ in Auckland his favourite restaurant was the Ariyoshi and Sandra
would often serve his table if he was there for dinner. I was working with Dan
Bergin again so I would not have been allowed to eat at the restaurant in my
drain-laying clothes. I organized for Sandra to present Bowie with a glass of
cognac as recognition of how much his music meant to me. I wrote on an Earl of
Seacliff Art Workshop card:
To the Thin White Duke
From the Fat Black Earl
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