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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Leonard Cohen

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
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
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
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
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
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself

A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

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