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

Leonard Cohen

My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness 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
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love

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

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