Unique

[Boss]

I like Leonard Cohen - especially his music because I can understand a bit of it. The album ‘The Future’ is particularly dear – it was released at the time I set off on a journey.

But this is the nub. I feel some people here idolize Leonard way out of proportion – to the extent they are jeopardizing their sense of reality. He is a man. He is a good man. But he is not God. It may be nice appreciating his views, but pay some respect to your own views. Leonard Cohen is fallible like anybody – like you or me. In the film ‘Gandhi’, Ben Kingsley said that the only devils in the world are those running around our own hearts. He was right. Leonard is not perfect – he must have ‘bad’ thoughts, too. He must fend them off like the rest of us. And he must know guilt.

I asked my doctor not so long ago if the world always had few leaders and many followers. His answer was in the affirmative. I accept this as a fact of nature. However, I beg anyone who reads this to stop and think about who they idolize. And I urge you to follow your own heart – don’t pick about all day in someone else’s yard. Don’t be boxed in by some party’s or company’s ‘truth’. Find/fashion your own. For this world to be saved, we need free-thinking, individuated people. Each of us is unique and each of us has something to offer. In the end, without question, we’ll come together as One – a whole of 6,800,000,000 integers.

Unique

I’ll see Leonard -
be one among
the pilgrims
all needing
no, pleading
to be better

I’ll come home
plan my attacks
against attention-
hungry parents
and a gutless
closed world

I’ll enter my room
imagine a truth
unknown to the lies
I carefully slay
each night
around ten

I’ll turn on TV
remote control
entertain crap
in this little mind
that Leonard
can’t know

I’ll fall asleep
dream lavishly
of her laugh
cheeky smile
of making love
under gum trees

I’ll wake in ‘morrow
scramble eggs
drink water
check the net
tickle Bud
and start again

[mat james]

Who is this Boss? boss of himself!
As the Indian might say, "aum" Boss. (ie: amen, Boss.)

"But he (Leonard) is not God" .

For the mystic the response is, "Yes he is: we all are."

[Boss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4SUl-K1Do

Kol Tuv, Mat

[mat james]

Tzohora'im Tovim
...and all the best to you as well!

[Boss]

It is 2.17 am – three hours after the Melbourne concert

Leonard, above I called you a ‘good man’ – you are also a beautiful one.

Thanks for the night
and thanks for everything.

I gotta go now.

Adam

[Boss]

I just had to slip this in.
A little 'Chisel'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_x5XUnCZwo
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwaGv8ynl4M

Peace

[woody]

I
I asked my doctor not so long ago if the world always had few leaders and many followers. His answer was in the affirmative. I accept this as a fact of nature.

Who is this medical man that you can ask such questions? My doctor is so keen to get me out the door he barely listens to my ailments. i'm guessing this is private medicine. good poem though i like the last six lines.

[lizzytysh]

I'm so very glad you were at last able to see Leonard, Adam.

I like your poem very much.


~ Lizzy