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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
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
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
We laugh & it pits the world against us.
— 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 wantedand worth dying for too — Richard Siken
Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe 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
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
You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happeningat 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
