Richard Siken
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born
February 15, 1967
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male
place of birth
The United States
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Poetry
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Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Richard Siken (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.49 — 476 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) by Roberto Bolaño bookshelves: currently-reading |
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What It Means to Be Avant-Garde (New Directions Paperbook) by David Antin |
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quotes by Richard Siken
"You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."
— Richard Siken
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."
— Richard Siken
"The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater
because he is trying to kill you,
and you deserve it, you do, and you know this,
and you are ready to die in this swimming pool
because you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means
your life is over anyway.
You're in eighth grade. You know these things.
You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do
long division,
and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless
he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you
didn't do,
because you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore."
— Richard Siken (Crush)
because he is trying to kill you,
and you deserve it, you do, and you know this,
and you are ready to die in this swimming pool
because you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means
your life is over anyway.
You're in eighth grade. You know these things.
You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do
long division,
and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless
he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you
didn't do,
because you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore."
— Richard Siken (Crush)
"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 (Crush)
— Richard Siken (Crush)
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