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I’M NEITHER LEFT NOR RIGHT / I’M JUST STAYING HOME TONIGHT
Re: The previous poetry post …
This was another potential candidate – not really a poem, depending on whether you consider song lyrics to be poems, or whether you consider Leonard Cohen to be a poet or just a really good lyrics writer.
I guess it does call to mind the old debate about what counts as poetry – Shakespeare? Carl Sandberg? Jim Morrison? Bob Dylan? Helen Steiner Rice? Rod McKuen? Dianne Warren? Whatever poetry critics say it is?
I’m not that worried about it. It’s poetry if you want it to be.
Unless it’s mine, of course. In which case it’s just terrible gibberish.
But yeah, anyway, Leonard Cohen? Totally a poet.
I’m junk but I’m still holding up,
This is dF
This was another potential candidate – not really a poem, depending on whether you consider song lyrics to be poems, or whether you consider Leonard Cohen to be a poet or just a really good lyrics writer.
I guess it does call to mind the old debate about what counts as poetry – Shakespeare? Carl Sandberg? Jim Morrison? Bob Dylan? Helen Steiner Rice? Rod McKuen? Dianne Warren? Whatever poetry critics say it is?
I’m not that worried about it. It’s poetry if you want it to be.
Unless it’s mine, of course. In which case it’s just terrible gibberish.
But yeah, anyway, Leonard Cohen? Totally a poet.
I’m junk but I’m still holding up,
This is dF