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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Leonard Cohen

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
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
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
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love

Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

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