THOUSANDS


Out of the thousands
who are known,
or who want to be known
as poets,
maybe one or two
are genuine
and the rest are fakes,
hanging around the sacred
precincts
trying to look like the real thing.
Needless to say
I am one of the fakes,
and this is my story





Copyright © 2001 & 2000 by Leonard Cohen.
Reprinted with permission.
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