ASFÒDELS.04 —But in his lapel, discreetly, he wore a sprig of asphodel — LEONARD COHEN

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
so I can sigh eternally
 
Kurt Cobain
Pennyroyal Tea
Nirvana – In Utero

 

Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song
 
Leonard Cohen
Tower of Song

 

Satan in Westmount 
 
One noticed his hands,
finely carved,
almost the colour of jade,
and the fingernails,
pink and cultivated.
       He spoke of Art
       and of poetry
       and held us with descriptions
       of the Masters.
 
Often when walking
he sang fragments
of austere Spanish songs
from the Court of Ferdinand,
and quoted Dante
accurately and often.
       But in his lapel,
       discreetly,
       he wore a sprig of asphodel.

 

Leonard Cohen
Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956)