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“ I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me. ”

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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.

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Richard Siken Crying Love Regret

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

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Richard Siken Love Poetry

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

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Richard Siken Death Love

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

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