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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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Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks
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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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You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.
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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
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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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I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.
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If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
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He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.
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Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.
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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.
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Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and transcend myself—but I’m taking to you and you know it.
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Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.
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The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.
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Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
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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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The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.
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He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.
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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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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.
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