Democracy is coming

April 22, 2011

I am an unrepentant Leonard Cohen fan, and one of the keys to his genius is his poetic brilliance. "Democracy," originally a good song, gains a new power spoken, in this old piece from the United States of Poetry.

It's today's poem and, I hope, tomorrow's.

Posted at 12:40 PM in Class war, Conflict, Culture, Film, Images, Lessons, Myth, Poetry, There is no they | Permalink

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The Breaking Time

There is no They.

April 22, 2011