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I have tried in my way to be free.

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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
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
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
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
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
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
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
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy

I have tried in my way to be free.

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