href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/03/02/090302po_poem_cohen">In
The New Yorker
Poetry
A
Street
by Leonard Cohen
[...]
I see the Ghost of Culture
With numbers on his wrist
Salute some new conclusion
Which all of us have missed
[...]
The ghost of culture is so much wiser than us all.
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