Kanye West Is Not Picasso
Kanye West is not Picasso I am Picasso Kanye West is not Edison I am Edison I am Tesla Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything I am the Dylan of anything I am the Kanye West of Kanye West The Kanye West Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture From one boutique to another I am Tesla I am his coil The coil that made electricity soft as a bed I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is When he shoves your ass off the stage I am the real Kanye West I don’t get around much anymore I never have I only come alive after a war And we have not had it yet
THE FLAME: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen, edited by Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
I LOL'ED. I THOUGHT I KNEW ALL OF L. COHEN'S POEMS. I KEPT SEARCHING FOR WHO REALLY WROTE THIS. HOW WONDERFUL TO LAUGH WITH L. COHEN AGAIN. So gutsy and imaginative.
There's a very thoughtful analysis of this poem in a 2018 article in Slate (Carl Wilson, October 12). There is always more to learn about Leonard Cohen--the richness behind every line. Amazing.