Picking up on the breadcrumb sins of unknown/unpublished writers

I didn’t kill myself

when things went wrong

I didn’t turn

to drugs or teaching

I tried to sleep

but when I couldn’t sleep

I learned to write

I learned to write

what might be read

on nights like this

by one like me

-Leonard Cohen

*Copyright 1993 by Leonard Cohen and Stranger Music, Inc.

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