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

Leonard Cohen

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
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
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.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
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
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself

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

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