Tuesday, December 3, 2013

"The Genius" by Leonard Cohen

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 

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