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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
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
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
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
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
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

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