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He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand. — Richard Siken

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor ...
When I say this, it should mean laughter,
not poison. — Richard Siken

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued. — Richard Siken

Someone is digging your grave right now. — Richard Siken

Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on. — Richard Siken

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time. — Richard Siken

I've been in your body, baby, and it was paradise.
I've been in your body and it was a carnival ride. — Richard Siken

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more. — Richard Siken

Did he find that one last tender place to sink his teeth in? — Richard Siken

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly. — Richard Siken

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale. — Richard Siken

Dear Forgiveness,I saved a plate for you. — Richard Siken

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation. — Richard Siken

I am singing now while Rome
burns. — Richard Siken

Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. — Richard Siken

When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire. — Richard Siken

If you love me, Henry, you don't love me in a way I understand. — Richard Siken

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next? — Richard Siken

We laugh & it pits the world against us. — Richard Siken

I don't really blame you for being dead but you can't have your sweater back. — Richard Siken

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello. — Richard Siken

You are here. You are here. You're still right here. — Richard Siken

Anything past the horizon is invisible, it can only be imagined. You want to see the future but you only see the sky. — Richard Siken

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells. — Richard Siken

Cut me open and the light streams out.
Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches — Richard Siken

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story. — Richard Siken

You a fever I am learning to live with — Richard Siken

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish. — Richard Siken

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder? — Richard Siken

What is a ghost?
Something dead
that seems to be alive.
Something dead
that doesn't know it's dead. — Richard Siken

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. — Richard Siken

you're all I ever wanted

and worth dying for too — Richard Siken

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently
we have had our difficulties and there are many things
I want to ask you. — Richard Siken

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. — Richard Siken

Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive. — Louise Gluck

If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other. — Richard Siken

Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one. — Richard Siken

We are at the crossroads, my little outlaw,
and this is the map of my heart, the landscape
after cruelty — Richard Siken

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? — Richard Siken

but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless and he was running out of lullabies — Richard Siken

God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first? — Richard Siken

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars. — Richard Siken

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. — Richard Siken

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet. — Richard Siken

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through. — Richard Siken

Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time. — Richard Siken

Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.
I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart. — Richard Siken

The boy's no good. The boy is just no good. / but he takes you in his arms and pushes your flesh around to see if you could ever be ugly to him. — Richard Siken

We laugh & it pits the world against us. — Richard Siken

I wanted to hurt you / but the victory is that I could not stomach it. — Richard Siken

You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel. — Richard Siken

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed. — Richard Siken

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. — Richard Siken

Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious. — Richard Siken

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere. — Richard Siken

Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again. — Richard Siken

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have. — Richard Siken

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists. — Richard Siken