Apparent Turbulence
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
You were the last young woman
to look at me that way
When was it
sometime between 9/11 and the tsunami
You looked at my belt
and then I looked down at my belt
you were right
it wasn't bad
then we resumed our lives.
I don’t know about yours
but mine is curiously peaceful
behind the apparent turbulence
of litigation and advancing age
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Submitted by RobertHaigh on June 16, 2020
Modified on April 24, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 323 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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