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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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
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.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love

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 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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