“In a 1994 Interview, about twenty years after he wrote 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' Cohen admitted that he could no longer remember the specifics of the love triangle that the song describes. 'I always felt that there was an invisible male seducing the woman I was with, now whether this one was incarnate or merely imaginary I don’t remember.' I find this forgetting quite heartening and quite tragic, in turns.” 

 

- Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Sam Francis