Essay - Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse

Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse: A Visit With Sweet Jane on the Occasion of Her 37th Birthday
by William I. Lengeman III
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So I thought I would explain to you how to make a career out of three chords. -Lou Reed

Like many people who came of age in the ‘70s, my first exposure to Lou Reed's music was by way of the perversions and doo-da-dooing colored girls that populated the sleazy world of “Walk on the Wild Side.” I was 10-years-old when the song first hit the airwaves and was more concerned with the likes of the Partridge Family than with the harder stuff. At the time, Lou Reed didn't make much of an impression.

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