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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
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
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
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
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
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself

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