Friday, February 23, 2007

Inspired

Montreal

Poet with no poems
Lover with no love
Driver with no drive
Invisible as you try to be
You leave footprints
wherever you go.

I sat in a cafe in Montreal
Half expecting you to come clink my glass
"To Cohen," you'd say
"To Dylan," I'd say
and both cringe at the cliches
our lives had become.

Instead, I drank alone
and had red wine epiphanies
I forgot my journal
so the wisdom was lost
I flirted with the waiter
who preferred young men.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

that is so beautiful it made me gasp.

2/24/2007 6:00 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ps: can i quote that?

2/24/2007 6:03 a.m.  
Blogger Leah said...

that's a wonderful compliment. yes, you can quote.

ps. do you *really* run ~13km every time you work out? that makes me gasp.

2/24/2007 10:54 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, at least that's the distance the machine tells me - i have no idea how accurate this is, though. but then, i *am* the world's most perfectly developed man after all! http://www.dennisbweis.com/bioimages/image009.jpg

2/25/2007 4:17 a.m.  

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