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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Leonard Cohen

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
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
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
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 dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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
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
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’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself

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