Av vikt för vår triangel är dock Leonard Cohen vars bortgång skedde för några dagar sedan.
Gissningsvis kommer jag om ett tag att lägga upp ett författarporträtt med tankar och liknande kring Cohens poesi och inflytande. Men just nu får det räcka med månadens dikt. Everybody Knows, en dikt som blivit allt mer aktuell ju mörkare och kallare världen blivit. Jag har tagit mig friheten att markera textraden som varit mest synlig på sociala media efter USA:s presidentval.
(Leonard Cohen 1988).
Gissningsvis kommer jag om ett tag att lägga upp ett författarporträtt med tankar och liknande kring Cohens poesi och inflytande. Men just nu får det räcka med månadens dikt. Everybody Knows, en dikt som blivit allt mer aktuell ju mörkare och kallare världen blivit. Jag har tagit mig friheten att markera textraden som varit mest synlig på sociala media efter USA:s presidentval.
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will discloseWhat everybody knows
And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred HeartBefore it blows
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goesEverybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goesEverybody knows
Everybody knows
Ja, det har varit ett sorgligt 2016 när legendarer som Cohen, Bowie och Rickman har gått ur tiden. Det är både läskigt och sorgligt när man blivit så gammal att ens idoler åldras och dör och jag hoppas verkligen det blir ett mer händelselöst 2017 på den fronten. //Sofia
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