Here's a reproduction: POET When you can call yourself a Poet Without getting foam on your face Between the rinsing and drying of the dishes Then you are one If you can call yourself a Poet With the foam upon your face You are perhaps a great one If you don’t bother to do the dishes You are scum Fin...

Men wash dishes too. I wash more than my girl. Poem never mentions woman. It's simply trashy abstraction. I'm telling myself to do my duty, my homework... One can be systematic about it, about the process.

Ha, ha, I just realise you may be just making fun of me!

Thanks kindly, Lisa.

Very enlightening, guys. The poem was something of a joke. The suggestion of Chinese is a welcome one, again.. His first Brisbane show was so finely tuned, so solid that I was sucking up to the visionary aspect of Cohen's persona. All that 'itty-bitty pain' builds the tower in the first place. It wa...

Does any know where I can find a copy of 'It Just Feels', recorded by Sylvie Marechal, co-written by Cohen?

No luck yet.

Cheers,
Matt
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A most valuable insight, Geoffrey. No, really. I'm going in for Chinese tonight.

Leonard, why did you lie to us?

So sweet and serious
Your art was never reassessed

Puzzled together
Over painful hours
As you told us so

But really it came full-forced
In constant-marble
The dust only brushed off
By our itty-bitty pain


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