I heard of a man who says words so beautifully
That if he only speaks their name
Women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
It is because I hear a man climb the stairs
And clear his throat outside our door.
— Leonard Cohen
I just Googled this, out of curiosity. Evidently it comes from a Leonard Cohen poem called, I think, “Poem,” in the collection Let Us Compare Mythologies.
That’s some memory you have.
Wow!!! Great detective work!
I need to read the rest of it. It moved me so much. I feel like I have been that woman in the poem before.
Or, wait a minute: “Googling” is not, actually, “great detective work”. What I MEANT to say was:
“I’m an idiot for never thinking to Google the poem myself. You’re very smart.”