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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Leonard Cohen

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
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
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
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

A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

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