Dois Poemas de Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann

EYES: Medium
HAIR: Medium
WEIGHT: Medium
HEIGHT Medium
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: None
NUMBER OF FINGERS: Ten
NUMBER OF TOES: Ten
INTELLIGENCE: Medium

What did you expect?
Talons?
Oversize incisors?
Green saliva?

Madness?

The Genius (“For you I will be a ghetto Jew ..”)

For you
I will be a ghetto jew
and dance
and put white stockings
on my twisted limbs
and poison wells
across the town

For you
I will be an apostate jew
and tell the Spanish priest
of the blood vow
in the Talmud
and where the bones
of the child are hid

For you
I will be a banker jew
and bring to ruin
a proud old hunting king
and end his line

For you
I will be a Broadway jew
and cry in theatres
for my mother
and sell bargain goods
beneath the counter

For you
I will be a doctor jew
and search
in all the garbage cans for foreskins
to sew back again

For you
I will be a Dachau jew
and lie down in lime
with twisted limbs
and bloated pain
no mind can understand

Leonard Cohen, poeta e cantor. Judeu canadiano. Dois poemas dos livros Flowers for Hitler, 1964, e The Spice-Box of Earth, 1961.