photo: Hydra, where Leonard Cohen lived and wrote, among other things, « Bird on the Wire. » By pure chance I had scheduled a post that coincided with the day of his death, and at the time, it was suggested that I was taking advantage of the situation. There will always be someone, somewhere, who projects their own shameful thoughts onto someone else. As for me, I projected my poetic thoughts onto this pensive man on the island of Hydra.

Sometimes we wondered,

what it meant to live

we did not know why

but we lived nonetheless

at least that is what we thought

and sometimes we felt it