“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died”
– Leonard Cohen
Two days after the election I was walking through the dark streets of West Duluth listening to my headphones. The first random song that came up was Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy, ” which seemed pretty appropriate. The next song was the Boomchucks “It’s Good to Be a Rolling Stone,” which begins with the lyric, “We used to make mix tapes of Leonard Cohen.”
“Oh, shit,” I thought. “The old man is going to die today.” Sure enough, the news broke a few hours later.
But it turns out Cohen actually died on Monday, Nov. 7, the day before the election. At first I thought the prospect of a Trump presidency was all the poor crooner could take.
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died”
– Leonard Cohen
Two days after the election I was walking through the dark streets of West Duluth listening to my headphones. The first random song that came up was Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy, ” which seemed pretty appropriate. The next song was the Boomchucks “It’s Good to Be a Rolling Stone,” which begins with the lyric, “We used to make mix tapes of Leonard Cohen.”
“Oh, shit,” I thought. “The old man is going to die today.” Sure enough, the news broke a few hours later.
But it turns out Cohen actually died on Monday, Nov. 7, the day before the election. At first I thought the prospect of a Trump presidency was all the poor crooner could take.