“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These, our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.Your co-workers askif everything's okay and you tell themyou're just tired.And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”Richard Siken
“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”Richard Siken Source: Crush
“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lakeand dress them in warm clothes again.”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