The Energy of Slaves

Leonard Cohen was a great singer, amazing stature on stage, great voice and brilliant song writer. This is the first book of poetry I've read by him and i've been surprised by just how insecure he was, at times he seems so lonely and at others he is doubting himself, including at one point his voice! Wha??? He has one of the best sounding voices in music. It's amazing what a bit of poetry can reveal about a person.  Some good poems here, a few made me laugh, like the threat against Norman Mailer and this one:  "I did not know  until you walked away   you had the perfect ass Forgive me for not falling in love  with your face or your conversation"   Some are incredibly bleak:  "I could not wait for you to find me dead in a rented room  with my sunglasses dusty  on the card table So once again I tried to set my throat on fire this time in silence and not thinking of you at all (I had so much time to kill)"   This was a real good place to start reading his poetry and I'll be checking out more. Here is my favourite from the book, shows what a rebel he was.  "Any system you contrive without us  will be brought down  We warned you before and nothing that you built has stood Hear it as you lean over your blueprint Hear it as you roll up your sleeve Hear it once again  Any system you contrive without us  will be brought down  You have your drugs  You have your guns  You have your Pyramids your Pentagons  With all your grass and bullets  you cannot hunt us any more  All that we disclose of ourselves forever is this warning Nothing that you built has stood  Any system you contrive without us  will be brought down"  Blog review>  https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2020...

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