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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself

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