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    Here is That Leonard Cohen Poem About Kanye West

    by Leonard Cohen Oct 12, 2018 1 minute

    Leonard Cohen wrote this poem in March of 2015; it’s included in his recently released posthumous collection, The Flame.

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    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

    March 15, 2015

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    the flame

    Excerpted from THE FLAME: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen, edited by Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 2, 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Leonard Cohen. All rights reserved.

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