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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.

Leonard Cohen

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
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
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
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
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
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
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
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth

You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.

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