Saturday, October 24, 2009

WHAT BAFFLED ME

WHAT BAFFLED ME

I took pills for my memory
but I could not stop it
from erasing

I had a family once
They could walk on water
There was a one-way chain
That held me to a woman's body
She didn't know she jerked me
every-which-way

But who was she?
And who were they?
In the midst of
someone's explanation
I forget
what baffled me

Leonard Cohen, The Book of Longing

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