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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Leonard Cohen

I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End 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
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
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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

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