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I’m planning a catastrophe.

Leonard Cohen

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
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
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
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 guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
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
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry

I’m planning a catastrophe.

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