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 Take a long time with your anger, 
  sleepy head. 
  Don't waste it in riots. 
  Don't tangle it with ideas. 
  The Devil won't let me speak, 
  will only let me hint 
  that you are a slave, 
  your misery a deliberate policy 
  of those in whose thrall you suffer, 
  and who are sustained 
  by your misfortune. 
  The atrocities over there, 
  the interior paralysis over here-- 
  Pleased with the better deal? 
  You are clamped down. 
  You are being bred for pain. 
  The Devil ties my tongue. 
  I'm speaking to you, 
  'friend of my scribbled life'. 
  You have been conquered by those 
  who know how to conquer invisibly. 
  The curtains move so beautifully, 
  lace curtains of some  
  sweet old intrigue: 
  the Devil tempting me 
  to turn away from alarming you. 
  So I must say it quickly. 
  Whoever is in your life, 
  those who harm you, 
  those who help you; 
  those whom you know 
  and those whom you do not know -- 
  let them off the hook, 
  help them off the hook. 
  Recognize the hook. 
  You are listening to Radio Resistance.  
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S.O.S
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
      At the time of writing  
Jikan Leonard Cohen  
was a monk practicing  
at Mt. Baldy Zen Center.
  
Cohen left the Center  
in Spring 1999 and lives 
now in Los Angeles.
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