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I am singing now while Rome burns.

Richard Siken

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Richard Siken
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 15
Poet
New York City
New York
Burns
Rome
Singing

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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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You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing.
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The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.
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Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.
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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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We laugh & it pits the world against us.
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