“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”

— Leonard Cohen

Source: The Spice Box of Earth

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Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

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