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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen

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
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
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
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
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
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
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
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

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