Leonard Cohen's "Call me Dr Frankenstein" by a sad old man

Reading a small segment from 'Beautiful Losers'. Call me Dr. Frankenstein with a deadline. I seemed to wake up in the middle of a car accident, limbs strewn everywhere, detached voices screaming for comfort, severed fingers pointing homeward, all the debris withering like sliced cheese out of Cellophane - and all I had in the wrecked world was a needle and thread, so I got down on my knees, I pulled pieces out of the mess and I started to stitch them together. I had an idea of what a man should look like, but it kept changing. I couldn't devote a lifetime to discovering the ideal physique. All I heard was pain, all I saw was mutilation. My needle going so madly, sometimes I found I'd run the thread right through my own flesh and I was joined to one of my own grotesque creations - I'd rip us apart - and then I heard my own voice howling with the others, and I knew that I was also truly part of the disaster. But I also realized that I was not the only one on my knees sewing frantically. There were others like me, making the same monstrous mistakes, driven by the same impure urgency, stitching themselves into the ruined heap, painfully extracting themselves -

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[AltheaHekate]

Beautiful! Your reading is perfect. It just showes again that you totally understand the sometimes difficult poems from Leonard Cohen...:-)

Blessed Be;

Althea )0(

[Geoffrey Wren]

well thanks! i am not sure my comprehension of leonard's work is the definitive interpretation, but the fact that a piece of prose can be understood differently by various individuals only enhances the fascination.

[BushWomanOtter]

Amen, I am speechless, as I have been there...alas, they rended themselves over and over again...screaming synapses...never-ending...unti­l one day the kneeling pleas of reconciliation ended, and I became able to stand up and walk away...

[Geoffrey Wren]

we have to stand up, or else admit defeat - but being triumphant often has a price, too. by losing, one is more likely to learn a whole lot more ;-)

[lizziecohen]

Leonard must be enjoying so much your covering his work in all its various forms. Expect it won't be long before you'll be doing one-act, one-man monologue plays for us. Well done on your verbatim recitation. Well done, too, on your expression and extracting of the emotion. Not sure why, but I was particularly taken by your delivery of "and I started to stitch them together." Your delivery and partially acting it out seem well suited to the material. Pleased to be your friend, geoffrey. xx

[Geoffrey Wren]

these are welcome words, lizzie. thank you. but i am sure that his enjoyment of my efforts, even if huge, can only measure up to a speck of dust when compared with the enjoyment his work has given me. x