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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
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
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
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
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

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