Daisy Stardust Practises Thank-You Bows for the Sunflowers
The lead singer’s favourite crowd does not clap. It leans, and she is grateful.
Read aloud: Daisy practised her thank-you bows for the sunflowers. She likes to say thank you, even when no one is clapping.
A quiet evening in the lower paddock turned into a little curtain call. Daisy Stardust walked along a row of sunflowers and practised her thank-you bows. She tried the one-arm lean. She tried the grateful bow. She never takes the last bow at a real show, because that one is for Spike and Suzy. She still said thank you to the flowers, because they had been very polite.
Henny Keys later said sunflowers are “excellent at holding a note.” Woolly Riff asked, kindly, if they ever wanted a guitar solo. They did not. They only wanted the dusk.
Daisy told the Beat she was “checking the light.” She was also practising gratitude. A second bow happened when the breeze moved the nearest flower. No tickets were needed. The flowers will be in the front row again at dusk, and Daisy will be ready with a thank you.
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