Richard Siken, Crush Quotes

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

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

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.