“Democracy“ by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen, more widely known as a musician, shows off his skill as a poet and a spoken-word artist with his poem “Democracy.“ From The United States of Poetry episode “The American Dream.“ Copyright Washington Square Arts, 1995. It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that it ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night