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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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