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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

Leonard Cohen

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
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
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
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry

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