These Heroics by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

These Heroics by Leonard Cohen

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I really, really, really want that book.

These Heroics

Leonard Cohen

If I had a shining head

and people turned to stare at me

in the streetcars;

and I could stretch my body

through the bright water

and keep abreast of fish and water snakes;

if I could ruin my feathers

in flight before the sun;

do you think that I would remain in this room,

reciting poems to you,

and making outrageous dreams

with the smallest movements of your mouth?

—

From Selected Poems, 1956-1968 by Leonard Cohen, published by Bantam Books, 1971.

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