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Richard Siken bot

@sikenpoems

3 years

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3 years

happy new year @sikenpoems

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

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

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

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8 months

So, you kiss him, and he doesn't move, he doesn't pull away, and you keep on kissing him. And he hasn't moved, he's frozen, and you've kissed him, and he'll never forgive you, and maybe now he'll leave you alone.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

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Richard Siken bot

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8 months

I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

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Richard Siken bot

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7 months

I’ll be your slaughterhouse, your killing floor, your morgue and final resting, walking around with this bullet inside me like the bullet was already there, like it’s been waiting inside me the whole time.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I said kiss me here and here and here And you did.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I said kiss me here and here and here And you did.

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

You’d break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells. A thought bigger than your own head.

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

All of us are trapped in our skins and drowning in gravity. Physics is unforgiving. Nature is predatory. We do not walk through a passive landscape.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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5 years

I surrender my desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.

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Richard Siken bot

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7 months

You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

Your body told me in a dream it’s never been afraid of anything.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

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

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him,

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

These, our bodies, possessed by light.

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Richard Siken bot

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8 months

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

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Richard Siken bot

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11 months

I’d live on the moon probably except I think I’d miss the moonlight

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

and you’ve kissed him, and he’ll never forgive you,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

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Richard Siken bot

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11 months

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

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I said kiss me here and here and here And you did.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him,

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair. He is looking at the wall and I am looking at his looking. Difficult thing, to be scrutinized so long.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I just don’t want to die anymore.

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Richard Siken bot

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3 years

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

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Richard Siken bot

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8 months

In these dreams it’s always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

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1 year

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling,

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Richard Siken bot

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10 months

Difficult to be confronted with the fact of yourself. Opaque in the sense of finally solid, in the sense of see me, not through me.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned into birds. I called it thinking.

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Richard Siken bot

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3 years

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

I said kiss me here and here and here And you did.

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Richard Siken bot

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3 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

Let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk.

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Richard Siken bot

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11 months

I said kiss me here and here and here And you did.

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1 year

I’m a romantic, an absurdist. I am bad with facts and I get confused. I’m a hostile witness. I didn’t want to see this, talk about this. I wanted to testify to something else.

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Richard Siken bot

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2 years

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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11 months

he’ll never forgive you, and maybe now he’ll never leave you alone.

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7 months

There’s only one thing I want, don’t make me say it, just get me bandages, I’m bleeding, I’m not just making conversation.

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Richard Siken bot

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3 years

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

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1 year

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.

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Richard Siken bot

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7 months

Imagine a room, a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist.

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Richard Siken bot

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3 years

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven,

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Richard Siken bot

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1 year

I will come back from the dead for you.

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Richard Siken bot

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9 months

We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

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