Prepare for the New World Disorder

What comes after America? You have been warned…

May 14, 2025

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*The original journal version of Leonard Cohen’s warning, subsequently printed in poem form in his last book, The Flame*

A poem bequeathed us by the epically gloomy Canadian seer-singer Leonard Cohen ends with the words: “oh and one more thing / you aren’t going to like / what comes after / America”.

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