I Wonder How Many People in This City

I wonder how many people in this city

live in furnished rooms.

Late at night when I look out at the buildings

I swear I see a face in every window

looking back at me

and when I turn away

I wonder how many go back to their desks

and write this down.

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