En Faisant La Lecture Au Premier Ministre. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
En Faisant La Lecture Au Premier Ministre. (Translation) .
Il etait gentil et puissant.
Il me demanda de lui lire
un poeme. Et alors il m'en demanda
un autre. Et un autre.
C'etait sur le toit
de la maison de Nancy, qu'elle appelait
La Caserne de Pompiers.
Nancy nous a servi le dejeuner, et
alors je fis la lecture de quelques autres. Plus tard
beaucoup de douleurs leur arriverent tous les deux.
- 'Reading to the Prime Minister'. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) .'Book of Longing', p.104.L. Cohen.
Pierre Trudeau made a favourable impression on Cohen: 'he was kind and powerful'. He invited Cohen to read him more and more poems. Trudeau was Liberal Party Prime Minister of Canada 1968-1979, and 1980-1984.
His son, Gary Trudeau, is Prime Minister right now.
Many sorrows befell Pierre Trudeau and Nancy later in life.
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