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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.

Leonard Cohen

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
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
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
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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 am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy
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

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