Leonard Cohen Poem Nails Kanye West’s White House Rant

After Kanye West dominated the new news cycle with a same-day rants at the White House and a Washington DC Apple store, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires took to Twitter with the words of now-departed songwriter Leonard Cohen and his  poem “Kanye West Is Not Picasso.”

Part of a newly released book by Cohen, The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings, the poem, though dated March 15, 2015, could not have been more timely.

“Kanye West Is Not Picasso” by Leonard Cohen, from Cohen’s new book ‘The Flame.’ pic.twitter.com/w5lUfkjdYv

— S H I R E S’ $Hit Show (@amandashires) October 11, 2018