Thanks for the songs Mr. Cohen , have a wonderful birthday.

I bought mine yesterday at"sounds" a little store in Dunedin,New Zealand and now I'm listening to it and playing "Because Of" again and again..

Read a little quote of Leonard's just the other day"I am an old scholar now, better looking than when I was young.That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."One of those typical self-deprecating lines that makes him so,so......oh, you know what I mean!

Haiku for Mr Cohen [thanks to JG]

Your birthday comes each
year in September,next year
it will come again.

Bless you for your music,your poetry and prose but most of all for being you.

Kia huritau ki a koe!

Benedicta in Aotearo/New Zealand.

Hi, this is my first message.I was encouraged by Paula's about first Hearing Leonard's music.I remember mine vividly,July 1972 Inch Beach,Dingle, Ireland.The song was One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong,then That's No Way To Say Goodbye sung by a young Irishman called Bill. I was smitten, not with Bill but Le...