Richard Ponsonby

Owed To Leonard Cohen

Since I was a little Leonard
I’ve been obsessed with sex
But money was important too
Fame was the way to success
I knew to get what I wanted
I would have to try real hard
Because I was an ugly sod
A socially inept dullard.
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I called myself a poet
Cos I thought that looked good
But my rhyming was like that of a goat
So I knew that I should
Write a best-selling novel
If only I could
I wrote beautiful losers
To appeal to those like me
To publishers I’d grovel
Till I got in print finally
I thought I was Jack Kerouac
The only one ...