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Slowly you come to me/ slowly we shed/
the clothes of our doubting/and slowly are wed

Famous Troubadour

It’s four in the morning
but everything's okay
I’m writing you now just
to say ‘Happy Birthday’

Toronto is steamy
I like where I’m living,
They’re busy on Clinton St.
all through the evening

I hear that you’re working
writing your poems, singing in Europe
You were robbed of your savings, G-d!
I hope you’re keeping some kind of record

Yes, and John came by just to drop off the girls
we’re finished as lovers, for sure
It’s been good for us, we have grown
Apart, and for good.

I loved you, as John did,
your songs were about us,
Destructive, creative
and tortured with love/lust

You were part of our courtship,
and part of our wedding
still we weren’t prepared for
the pain of our ending

And you treated all women
to a sip of your life
I took more than my share, now
I’m nobody’s wife

Well I see you, hair grey and wrinkly face
Silent One so full of grace
well I’m dry again but
now I know how to wait

He took all of your albums
I knew they would help him
He cried all the time, just like me

It cost us so much
to be free of each other
a home and a whole family

It’s hard when you’re young
it gets soft later on
so much to collect, then
so much to be gone

Yes and thanks
for the trouble you took for us all
for showing us it's okay
to fall, rise, and fall

I’m so happy you’re happy
an old monk who’s still sexy
and living among us again

I said, ‘Leonard I love you’
at the time of our meeting
I feel like we’ve always been friends

John and I aren’t pals
No secrets, no sighs
but we talk and last night
we laughed at his lies

And thanks
for the poems and songs that you write
for helping us give up the fight
We're beautiful losers, like you.

Sincerely,

M. Moore

Beautiful, touching, and witty.
What an appropriate poem for this web site.
Thanks for sharing a flake of your life.
Jilllian

Madeline,

I loved your tribute to that sexy old bard. And you're pretty cool yourself

Hope you stick around on the Forum. Did you know there's a Happy Birthday Leonard thread in the NEWS' section?

Welcome Madeline.

I sang/read this to the tune of Famous Blue Raincoat and seemed to work pretty well (with the exception of my singing).
Nicely done.

I love Slowly I Married her. There's a section here for Leonard Cohen's poetry and novels, I'll post a copy of the poem there.

Cate

Oh God Sue,

Now someone will have to explain to Madeline about your ironing fetish.

Are you hoping she'll write about it?

imaginary friend wrote:Oh God Sue,

Now someone will have to explain to Madeline about your ironing fetish.

Are you hoping she'll write about it?

hello IF xx I am not sure I would call ironing a fetish of mine, it's just that it is both my job and my full time sexy fantasy. If Madeline could write an ironing fantasy for me in black lace that would be wonderful indeed.

I would love a steamy story where I am pressed to the board and some well hung man ironed me flat. I would love to be straightened out completely. But one can only dream

Sue

ps I am sorry that I have taken my pic away but a very nice women here objected to it.

All of this ironing talk reminds me of something my Oma (German grandma) used to say:
"Gut geschlenkert ist halb gebuegelt!"
It means "well flapped is half ironed", i.e. flapping/snapping the damp laundry item out like a sheet before you hang it to dry, which smooths it so you don't have to iron as much. Sometimes not at all.

Fascinating, eh? I thought so.

She also had this to say about sewing:
"langes Faedchen; faules Maedchen" which means "long thread; lazy girl."
But that's not as relevant to this, um, thread.

Mnkyface wrote:
"Gut geschlenkert ist halb gebuegelt!"
It means "well flapped is half ironed", i.e. flapping/snapping the damp laundry item out like a sheet before you hang it to dry, which smooths it so you don't have to iron as much. Sometimes not at all.

Eeeek! Now Sue will fantasize flapping as foreplay.

imaginary friend wrote:
Eeeek! Now Sue will fantasize flapping as foreplay.

My dear Imaginary Friend, today the weather was so hot that I ironed almost naked and without clothes (except those on the ironing pile!!!) I have had 3 new customers sign up this week so life is good (although a man or even two would make it better!!!)

Sue

TODAY'S TIP Always keep the iron moving; never let it sit still over any part of the garment. If there's a stubborn wrinkle that refuses to iron out, spray some water on it and iron over with steam. Begin at the big areas and finish with the corners. Once you iron a section, move the garment away from you. If you move it towards you, it may wrinkle as you lean over it and possibly push it against the ironing board.

I could do a story about a gal on an ironing board...but right now I have guys outside my sixth floor windows, fixing brick... and I think that swinging scaffolding with those hard body dudes has sparked an idea for a story that must be written first. Will keep the ironing board fantasy, though not the actual (ouch) ironing.

Amanda's Young Men is 57,588 places above Wild Card on Amazon!

Hmmm, I never thought to go figure that out. Thanks for the information, although I don't know exactly what I can do with it. I have heard of people going in and buying their books for the thrill of seeing their rating change.

I was at dinner a couple of weeks ago with Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and brilliant columnist under the same name in Saturday's Guardian, and it was just a few days after its publication. He went to the toilet rather a lot and clutching his blackberry to check if his book had improved in the rankings. It's currently no 18 by the way.

Phew! That's a relief!

It's comforting to read of more obsessive preoccupations than checking for replies to one's posts on the Forum