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Leonard Cohen

I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHEN

Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Responsibility Run
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
LEONARD COHEN

Art Sound
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHEN

Control Love Myself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN

Himself Love Myself Sex
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy World
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Myself Wait
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
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
LEONARD COHEN

Change Myself Oneself
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Ocean Yourself

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