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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
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
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
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
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
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
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
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
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

I have tried in my way to be free.

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