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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

Leonard Cohen

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
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
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
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
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
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
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
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Dissappear Love Philosophy
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
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy

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