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all I've learned from love <•> for the fedora man, 10/29/17 10:34am <•> another song done me wrong on a Sunday morn, so much due to do, a list not for compilation/publication, including poems promised and weighty deadlines overdue, for its tedium would still be lbs. heavy in weightless space instead a lyric plucks my attention, of course beeping, insistent chirping a chorus of, write me right now, immédiatement dans son français de Montréal, this is the item that needs to be list topping, now whispering a messenger-angel name dropping a request formal from the fedora man dressed in black all I've learned from love, a listing doomed to comprehensible incompletion, a listing to the right as new reasons in-come constantly from the left, each heart beat a remarkable reminder that the list grows longer every day, the repeating seasons, proffer suggestions, disguised as a newly revised ten commandments, obedience to which is a wish list for attaining grace all I've learned from love is its duality, essential quality, a human single cannot attain the commingling required for the visioning a peak season of life colorful, its sad corollary, leaves falling exposing the body bare-nudity of the soul linear alone all I've learned from love is its shining skin is an agreed upon indefinable nature, other than we all recognize how our definition personal exists in that Ven diagrams space where our circles intersect, when A breaks the skin of B, creating {A,B} all I've learned from love is without it no matter what somewhere inside is a desperation pocket that is an inquisitive irritant, a brain burr, a pea under the mattress, a high and mighty 1% of disarmament incompetence that rules the imbalanced balance of my bottom line on the top of my head all I've learned from love that it appears on its own timetable, in surprising trains and planes and baseball games, sitting alone in a theater or in front of a Rubens, on crazy disastrous first dates in foreign countries at cafes or non gender specific bathrooms amidst alternating currents of this is crazy and this is infinite and ever so sobering wondrous possible all I've learned from love is it never shoots straight, but will always end in a holy bullseye Tout ce que j'ai appris de l'amour, c'est qu'elle ne tire jamais, directement mais se terminera toujours dans une sainte bullseye
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Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 11:42 AM UTC
all I've learned from love (for Leonard)
all I've learned from love <•> for the fedora man, 10/29/17 10:34am <•> another song done me wrong on a Sunday morn, so much due to do, a list not for compilation/publication, including poems promised and weighty deadlines overdue, for its tedium would still be lbs. heavy in weightless space instead a lyric plucks my attention, of course beeping, insistent chirping a chorus of, write me right now, immédiatement dans son français de Montréal, this is the item that needs to be list topping, now whispering a messenger-angel name dropping a request formal from the fedora man dressed in black all I've learned from love, a listing doomed to comprehensible incompletion, a listing to the right as new reasons in-come constantly from the left, each heart beat a remarkable reminder that the list grows longer every day, the repeating seasons, proffer suggestions, disguised as a newly revised ten commandments, obedience to which is a wish list for attaining grace all I've learned from love is its duality, essential quality, a human single cannot attain the commingling required for the visioning a peak season of life colorful, its sad corollary, leaves falling exposing the body bare-nudity of the soul linear alone all I've learned from love is its shining skin is an agreed upon indefinable nature, other than we all recognize how our definition personal exists in that Ven diagrams space where our circles intersect, when A breaks the skin of B, creating {A,B} all I've learned from love is without it no matter what somewhere inside is a desperation pocket that is an inquisitive irritant, a brain burr, a pea under the mattress, a high and mighty 1% of disarmament incompetence that rules the imbalanced balance of my bottom line on the top of my head all I've learned from love that it appears on its own timetable, in surprising trains and planes and baseball games, sitting alone in a theater or in front of a Rubens, on crazy disastrous first dates in foreign countries at cafes or non gender specific bathrooms amidst alternating currents of this is crazy and this is infinite and ever so sobering wondrous possible all I've learned from love is it never shoots straight, but will always end in a holy bullseye Tout ce que j'ai appris de l'amour, c'est qu'elle ne tire jamais, directement mais se terminera toujours dans une sainte bullseye
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1851080/the-leonard-cohen-trilogy/ the list only grows longer
nat-lipstadt
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99/M/NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 11:42 AM UTC
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