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Posts quotes from poet Richard Siken once daily. No longer a bot--tweets scheduled in advance. Welcome back to twitter, Richard, we're so glad to have you.
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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.
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We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.
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So, you kiss him, and he doesn't move, he doesn't pull away, and you keep on kissing him. And he hasn't moved, he's frozen, and you've kissed him, and he'll never forgive you, and maybe now he'll leave you alone.
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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 woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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I’ll be your slaughterhouse, your killing floor, your morgue and final resting, walking around with this bullet inside me like the bullet was already there, like it’s been waiting inside me the whole time.
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling,
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.
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He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.
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He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.
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You’d break your
heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull
when the mind swells. A thought bigger than your
own head.
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I say I want you inside me
and you split me open with a knife.
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All of us are trapped in our skins and drowning in gravity. Physics is unforgiving. Nature is predatory. We do not walk through a passive landscape.
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I surrender my
desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.
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But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.
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You're going to die
in your best friend's arms.
And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down,
you've memorized it,
it's all you know.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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Your body told me in a dream it’s never been afraid of anything.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Cut me open and the light streams out. Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him,
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Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.
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I’d live on the moon probably except I think I’d miss
the moonlight
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible,
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I say I want you inside me
and you split me open with a knife.
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I say I want you inside me
and you split me open with a knife.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to
choke down the feeling, and you're trembling,
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A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.
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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story.
There is no other version of this story.
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and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.
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We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him,
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What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair. He is looking at the wall and I am looking at his looking. Difficult thing, to be scrutinized so long.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible,
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He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.
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I couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth.
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I say I want you inside me
and you split me open with a knife.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.
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You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.
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In these dreams it’s always you:
the boy in the sweatshirt,
the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me
from jumping off the bridge.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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I say I want you inside me
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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Difficult to be confronted with the fact of yourself. Opaque in the sense of finally solid, in the sense of see me, not through me.
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling,
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I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned
into birds. I called it thinking.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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I say I want you inside me
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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I’m a romantic, an absurdist. I am bad with facts and I get confused. I’m a hostile witness. I didn’t want to see this, talk about this. I wanted to testify to something else.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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There’s only one thing I want, don’t make me say it, just get me bandages,
I’m bleeding, I’m not just making conversation.
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he’ll never forgive you, and maybe now he’ll never leave you alone.
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Imagine a room,
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist.
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If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand.
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Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion.
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We are all going forward. None of us are going back.
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