How Can I Be Your Leonard Cohen?
How can I be your Leonard Cohen
Drinking happy hour red wine
In this Provincial venue?
You want extreme romance,
Authentic voice, authentic self-
hood, worn a badge of
Glory.
You also want commitment.
Beatnik? Buddhist? Bread winner?
Just take a number:
one love – one hand clapping – Number One!
Everything is in you.
Nothing I can do. “I love you” powerless, impotent
from over use;
Leonard himself mere cliché
nowadays, a paper doll
romantic
cut-out Ken to aging
hippie chick non-Barbies.
How can I be your Leonard Cohen?
Genius doesn’t franchise.
He’s a solo act, unique,
a one way ticket.
Does genius compromise?
Will Leonard-lite sing “Suzanne” at his spouse’s birthday party?
“Always be your lover” – I don’t think so.
No Leonard here, chérie.
What you see and hear is what you get.
One time around. One life to live. One life to give.
My sole regret,
Your bitter disappointment.
