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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Leonard Cohen

When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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
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
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
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
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
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
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
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

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