Leonard Cohen verse (thanks to __who_by_fire)

[davidfcooper]

with photo of Cohen

I leave my silence to a co-operative of poets
who have already bruised their mouths against it.

I leave my homesick charm to the scavengers of
spare change who work the old artistic corners.

I leave the shadow of my manly groin to those who
write for pay.

I leave to several jealous men a second-rate legend
of my life.

To those few high school girls
who preferred my work to Dylan's
I leave my stone ear
and my disposable Franciscan ambitions.