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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Leonard Cohen

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHEN

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

Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
LEONARD COHEN

Change Myself Oneself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Death Light Love Night
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Grief Suffering
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run
Do not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Self Love
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

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