NOT SO FRIENDLY Not so friendly today, are you, darling? I, too, find myself in a distant mood. Maybe it's time to take the long way home, the back streets where we will be assaulted by thugs because we are rich, and spit on by old women who don't like your bare arms. Then how about caramel custard In that place they know us? Yes, I'm feeling better about you, already. I'm looking forward to our white hotel room where the two puppets can be naked at last, and in each other's arms, surrender to the strings. Copyright © 1999 by Leonard Cohen. All rights reserved. Reprinted here with Leonard Cohen's permission. Also published in Intensity, Spring 1999 issue (issue 4/volume 12). Photo © 1999 by Jarkko Arjatsalo. All rights reserved.