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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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