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We laugh & it pits the world against us.

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Richard Siken
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 15
Poet
New York City
New York
Pits
Laugh
Laughing
World

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I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.
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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
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If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
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I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
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Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?
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I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.
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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
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When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.
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I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.
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