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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.

Leonard Cohen

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
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
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
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
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
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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Philosophy Result
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Hurt Myself Place Play
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love

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