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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

Leonard Cohen

My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
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
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
There is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHEN

One Liner
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Victim Yourself

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