Rufus Wainwright and his partner, Jorn, had a baby with Leonard Cohen's daughter Lorca, so in a slightly stretched connection I thought I'd share one of my favourite Cohen songs.  Being a poet myself I find something incredibly appealing and undeniable about the way he writes, listening to it I long to be able to go to the places he must have gone to find the words he finds.  There is something about the song "So Long Marianne" that has always caught me.  Most people might automatically go to the song "Hallelujah" with the mention of Leonard Cohen and while that song is an incredibly brilliant song, for me his presentation of it does not work nearly as well as Jeff Buckley's and so instead, I will share "So Long Marianne" which is from Cohen's 1967 debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen.  The lyrics are, as would soon be seen as the norm from Cohen, pure and powerful poetry and though his voice is not the perfect singing voice it is, to me, perfect in its imperfection.