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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Leonard Cohen

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure 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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
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
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

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

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