Like Falling Ashes: Leonard Cohen Dies

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Abby Zimet, staff writer

Like the world wasn't feeling bereft enough, poet, seeker, songwriter and Buddhist monk Leonard Cohen has died at 82. After writing, touring and being revered as the "songwriter's songwriter" from the 1960s till a few years ago, Cohen last month issued his final album, "You Want It Darker." Now it is. One commenter on Cohen's Facebook page mournfully noted that when he heard of the death, "the lyric I heard him sing is, 'Everybody knows that the good guys lost.' We really did. Trump is president and Leonard is dead." May his memory be for a blessing.

"Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That’s how the light gets in."

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