I would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former SS monsters
However since it is
New Year's Eve
and I have lip cancer
I will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.

A friend and I read this while working on a project last night and at first we wondered and wondered about how depressed and suicidal Cohen must be (all his poems that I have read so far are dark), then we read it again and looked at it differently and couldn’t stop laughing. The man’s imagination is amazing. And I love the way the mood is maintained till the very end with the ‘paper hat on my concussion’ instead of on his head.

Zen.

Minstrels Links

Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has been featured on the Minstrels before - ‘Suzanne’, at poem #116