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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

Leonard Cohen

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
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
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
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
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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