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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.

Leonard Cohen

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love 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
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
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
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
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
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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