Results from COHEN'S POEMS: 11 - 20 of 44 total results for The only poem
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the only thing I wanted to save / was a scar / a burn or two -- / but my good demon said: / Lay off documents! / The fire's not important!" / The pile was safely blazing. / I went home to take a
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Your eyes come to me / under the perfect spikes / of imperishable eyelashes / Your mouth living / on French words / and soft ashes of your make-up / Only with you / I did not imitate myself /
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Dedicated as an automatic elevator / I comb my hair for possibilities / I stick my neck out / I lean illegally from locomotive windows / and only for the barber / do I wear a hat
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Do not forget old friends / you knew long before I met you / the times I know nothing about / being someone / who lives by himself / and only visits you on a raid
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the end of a Mexican song / I saw the musicians getting paid / they are not even surprised / they knew it was only a job / Now I've lost it completely / A lot of people think you are beautiful /
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then you are the engine of the song / If only your gorilla was dead / we could be lovers / You cannot accuse my poem of helping anyone / You cannot use the tone / for the construction of a new thing
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Even in her sleep / She turns away from them. / The only gift they offer / Is their abiding grief-- / I pull out my pockets / For a handkerchief or leaf.
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and the harlots put to the sword / And I write this only to rob you / that when one morning my head / hangs dripping with the other generals / from your house gate / that all this was anticipated
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will become clear that I am the stylist of my era and the only honest man in town. I did not quarrel with my voices. I took it down out of the air. This is called work by those who know and should not
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If this looks like a poem / I might as well warn you at the beginning / that it's not meant to be one. / I don't want to turn anything into poetry. / I know all about her part in it / but I'm not