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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

Leonard Cohen

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
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
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
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
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
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
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try

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