“But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U. S. A.”

— Leonard Cohen

"Democracy"
The Future (1992)

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Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

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