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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.

Leonard Cohen

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
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
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

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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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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