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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.

Leonard Cohen

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
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
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
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
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
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
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
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself

You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.

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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.

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