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November 21, 2004

souls, salvation of -p.58

amongst the many things that i talked about tonight and in this here blog, i just realized that i haven’t even shared my favourite LC poem yet, and i think i might sleep more easily once this is remedied. i thought of this poem because somehow, something awoke the 7 year old in me today. and i don’t just mean unruliness at the museum or giggling in drugstores, more like being very unsettled, very elated over the understanding of another. here is the poem then now sleep.

the reason i write

the reason i write
is to make something
as beautiful as you are.

when i’m with you i want to be
the kind of hero i wanted to be
when i was seven years old.
a perfect man
who kills.

Posted by nathalie at November 21, 2004 3:50 AM

Comments

that’s awesome

Posted by: seth on November 23, 2004 5:06 PM

yes seth, it is.

Posted by: leonard cohen on November 23, 2004 6:03 PM