Overjoyed with a new computer just bought, <br />a laptop, my old one’s broken; I was stuck <br />in an icy kitchen with a go-nowhere screen, <br />now I can type where I want, in front of TV, <br />at the little school desk <br /> <br />Watching Leonard Cohen’s DVD ‘Live in <br />London’ on the new PC, preparing dinner <br />in between, sound weak, volume low, when <br />he sings ‘Dance Me To The End Of Love’ <br />I cup my fingers over my ears to hear <br /> <br />He sings ‘Tower Of Song’, I cry, he looks so <br />frail, so elegant, singing “I’m crazy for love” <br />saying the answer to life’s question is open <br />ended, leaving the mystery intact – a poet <br />to my own heart, he is clever, leaving it to <br /> <br />a listener’s imagination, humble and cool, <br />I tried to capture the feeling in words but <br />they ran away, my cupped fingers made <br />recording thoughts inspired impossible <br />while typing on the old laptop anchored <br /> <br />in the cold kitchen, tonight I want to watch <br />him singing with surround-sound on the big <br />screen, toasting him with vodkatini, paying <br />homage to everything he has been, still is <br />and always will be <br /> <br />“I loved you when you opened a thousand <br />kisses deep”*, sounds too good to be true <br />but I share the dream when he sings ‘So <br />Long Marianne’; you say it is one of your <br />favourite songs of all time – <br /> <br />when we forget to pray for the angels – <br />they forget to pray for us; I DANCE for the <br />angels to keep them amused so they won’t <br />forget to pray for me... <br /> <br />Leonard Cohen ‘Recitation’ <br />Leonard Cohen DVD “Live in London” <br />Recorded live in concert 17 July 2008<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/2010-06-22-angels/
