Sometimes I wonder if there are one million people
           listening at the same time  
           to the same Leonard Cohen song.
           the one that keeps people from killing themselves.
It’s a long playing record
It’s a long song

 Where do people play each other the songs that will keep them standing
            when one foot in front of the other is more myth than practice? 

I once tried to play Beware of Darkness by George Harrison for a friend,
            cause its beauty and pain were singular at that moment and
            I wanted to share
I wanted us to hear as close as we could the same thing and
            make of it what we would 

He said he heard that song when it first came out and ran out 
            to smoke a cigarette
We lost something in that moment 

I listen to music alone, but I imagine there are sharp notes bending the
            backs of the universe into more flexibility, more love,
            more tenderness, more a capella chiropractors 

Somebody is strumming 3 basic chords and 
            somebody will live through the night.






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