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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Leonard Cohen

We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
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
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
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
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
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
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
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

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