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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

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
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Herself One Liner
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
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
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
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
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

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