Please find me
I am almost 30.
-Leonard Cohen
Cohen etched this poem on the wall of a restaurant in Cyprus during the late 1950's. He wrote it in response to a woman who had rebuffed his advances several years prior by telling him to "come back when you're 30". Cohen was punctuating this awkward late 20s phase - he was stuck between his adolescence and maturity, scrawling his life on a wall.
Oh, how we ascribe our own meaning.
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