Evening Thoughts

Thoughts to Replace Thoughts
---- Big Frank Dickinson

"And all the lousy little poets
Coming round
Trying to sound like Charlie Manson
. . . and the white man dancing"
---- Leonard Cohen

Count up all the words of all the poets and all the philosophers
and all those new age seers. Count them up and count up their readers
who take them home with them, and in the glow of the light beside
their bed ponder and try on what they pry from the spare hours of
their day. Ponder and try on in search of recipes to what? They
don't even know the questions to which they are seeking the answers.
A phrase will stick, and thought will glow, and it resonates in the
night of their little bedroom plight. And then the book is shelved with
all the rest. A line grows on the edges of their sight, a line that stretches
out in vertical rows stacked on vertical row of names and titles that
become wallpaper to their further ponderings. An unending evening search
for thoughts to replace thoughts that were never thought.

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And for those of you who are Leonard Cohen fans here's possibly the two best covers of Leonard Cohen ever: Teddy Thompson on Cohen's song "The Future", and "Tonight Will Be Fine". What a voice this man has!

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Chapter Two in Clichés to Live By.