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A SILENT POEM
(Just for Lizzytish)

Loved the dangling participle




~ Lizzy

Ah yes but it can be painful!

"Does anyone else have any stories about unusual settings where
they have enjoyed Leonard's songs?"

Yes I had one when I was on the inner ring of the Seventh Circle of the Inferno (You know it's the one were the suicides are punished.
The punishment was to listen to Leonard Cohen songs
24/24, 7/7, 365/365!)

When I asked the little devil who was the dj why this punishment
he told me that actually it was a form of therapy (homeopathic) for the
suicides(you know, music to slit your wrists).
After that, they never again commit suicide.

Thank a Devil, I have now moved up to the Sixth Circle.

Here we have to listen only to opera.

Dem

After that, they never again commit suicide.

How many times can anyone ever actually commit suicide

Sherry wrote:Does anyone else have any stories about unusual settings where they have enjoyed Leonard's songs?

About five or ten years ago, I read the sleeve notes on the back of a compilation vinyl (I didn't buy the record) in which LC was unusually forthcoming about some of his songs. What I particularly remember was his writing that the most unusual place he had heard Suzanne being played was on a boat on the Caspian Sea. Frustratingly, he never explained exactly what he was doing on the Caspian Sea! Would love to know.

margaret:
Several times.

I have done it myself twice.

Now that I read on CNN.com
http://tinyurl.com/mcuty
that a suicide is an action of warfare against the USA I will to do it every
day first thing in the morning!

Dem

Dem. which was more satisfying- first or second?

margaret wrote:

After that, they never again commit suicide.

How many times can anyone ever actually commit suicide

It is as strange comment from a woman of the generation of Harold and Maud (the movie).

We can guess what somebody can do on Caspian See. We can begin by eliminating some things that one can not do on caspian see :

1) Ski (I mean not ski nautic, of course)
2) ....

Red Poppy:
The next one.

Tchocolatl:
That's were he wrote the well-known lyrics:

"oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
on the Caspian See."

for his fellow skiers that were passing by him
on their "nautic" (or did you mean naughty?) skis.

Dem

Yep! I guess it is not nautic nor nautical at all. I guess it is water skiing.

Blinds have a very sharp ear, so maybe it is possible for a blind Leonard Cohen to do water skiing on Caspian See and hearing people from a near boat signing Suzanne.

from a near boat signing Suzanne.

Too bad that's a typo .

better than "from a near goat etc

Recently I attended a birthday celebration of one of the disability organisations I work for and saw/heard a local "signing choir" of deaf people performing several songs. Unfortunately there were no Cohen songs amongst them