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

Leonard Cohen

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
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
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
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
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
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
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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 a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself

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

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