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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Leonard Cohen

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
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
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature

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