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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.

Leonard Cohen

He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Hands Hard Sky
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
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHEN

Kill Light Ourselves

My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.

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