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I am 76 years old and what we call autistique in Quebec.

I grew up in Montreal where the muse is everywhere

I remember Israel Lazarovich. He was a giant who dared speak his truth

My father loved his poetry but they padlocked the Jewish Public library

My love's father was a scientist but he was American and it is hard to be an American and pretend to be something special. Today Westmount High is open and the student's council is in session.

Montreal loves Celine Dion.

Montreal loves Kamala but it is Leonard who lights up the sky and the hearts of Montreal.

Leonard and Irving loved our brother Jesus

Jesus was not a Roman or a Greek or a Russian or from Florida

Last night I listened to Leonard sing about Democracy

My love and I were in a village near Yellowknife when The Future was released.

I was born on a mountain on an Island

I will die on a mountain in Quebec's Appalachia

We could have died in Minneopolis Minnesota

But Leonard summoned me back home

My father told me long ago that Reagan was a monster

my wife and I wore out Springsteen's Nebraska

We love Warren's Excitable Boy

Obama was defeated after we moved to Woodlawn,

Obama's Chicago is too conservative.

Woodlawn too Elvis too ghetto too Jewy too black

Montreal teaches love not business

My father in law loved The Rubiyat

Montreal is not Rome or Persia

Jesus was a Jew not a Persian

Jewish Messiahs don't ever return

They just light up our hearts and our skies

It is time to take down the Manichean Cross

At Westmount High

There are no religions, there are no boys and no girls

There are only naked apes and Leonard singing

There Ain't no cure for love

Heneni

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Regarding #2, you must have more patience than I. Or perhaps she was just super sexy.

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Regard #1, one hears them so often blaming their parents for mistreatment. I don't doubt the stories, but to what avail are they remembered and repeated? I've never given a thought to my childhood nor bored myself or anyone else with its cruelties. Have always wondered why others make it a constant theme. What happened to me is their fault not mine? If you want to help the 11 year old, tell her to bury and forget her past. Consign it to ghosthood: be your own person and erase history. I have always done that automatically.

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