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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

Leonard Cohen

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Myself Responsibility Run
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
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
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
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
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
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
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

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