Cosmo inspired me on this forum to read some more poems by Leonard Cohen. I bought the "Book of Longing" which has a lot of poems about Cohens experience of returning to the "real world" after five years as a Buddhist monk at the Mt. Baldy Abbey in California. This is one I liked:
Early Morning On Mt. Baldy ~ Leonard Cohen
Alarm awakened me at 2:30 am:
got into my robes
kimono and hakama
modelled after the 12th century
archer's costume:
on top of this the koroma
a heavy outer garment
with impossibly long sleeves:
on top of this the ruksu
a kind of patchwork bib
which incorporates an ivory disc:
and finally the four foot
serpentine belt
that twists into a huge handsome knot
resembling a braided challah
and covers the bottom of the ruksu:
all in all
about twenty pounds of clothing
which I put on quickly
at 2:30 a.m.
over my enormous hard-on.
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