richard siken sentence starters.
quotes are all taken from various poems out of richard sikenโs poetry book crush.ย feel free to change pronouns/etc if needed.
โ ย tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. ย โ
โ ย tell me weโll never get used to it. ย โ
โ ย there are so many things iโm not allowed to tell you. ย โ
โ ย i swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth. ย โ
โ ย i want it back now, baby. i want it back. ย โ
โ ย iโm sorry. we know how it works. the world is no longer mysterious. ย โ
โ ย thatโs a nice touch. ย โ
โ ย i like him and i want to be like him. ย โ
โ ย iโm sure you remember, i was on the phone with you, sweetheart. ย โ
โ ย history repeats itself. ย โ
โ ย there are many names in history, but none of them are ours. ย โ
โ ย you could drown in those eyes. ย โ
โ ย but damn if there isnโt anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills. ย โ
โ ย sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine. ย โ
โ ย i couldnโt get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time. ย โ
โ ย you wanted happiness, i canโt blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me youโre not miserable. ย โ
โ ย there is no way to make this story interesting. ย โ
โ ย i want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that i ran out into the street to prove something. ย โ
โ ย tell me weโre dead and iโll love you even more. ย โ
โ ย you will be alone always and then you will die. ย โ
โ ย iโm sorry i came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. ย โ
โ ย who am i? iโm just a writer. i write things down. ย โ
โ ย i take it back. ย โ
โ ย here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed. ย โ
โ ย you still get to be the hero. ย โ
โ ย what more do you want? ย โ
โ ย love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. itโs like a religion. itโs terrifying. ย โ
โ ย no one will ever want to sleep with you. ย โ
โ ย you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things i want to ask you. ย โ
โ ย you had not expected this. ย โ
โ ย walk a mile in my shoes. ย โ
โ ย a man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then heโs still left with the river. ย โ
โ ย you are weak and hollow and it doesnโt matter anymore. ย โ
โ ย hush, my sweet. these tornadoes are for you. ย โ
โ ย that sounds overly valorous. ย โ
โ ย do you love yourself? ย โ
โ ย i donโt have to answer that. ย โ
โ ย you wanted more. ย โ
โ ย i had a dream about you. ย โ
โ ย thereโs nowhere to go. thereโs nowhere to go. ย โ
โ ย in these dreams itโs always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge. ย โ
โ ย will you love me even more when iโm dead? ย โ
โ ย you didnโt show up. i kept waiting. ย โ
โ ย i swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass and youโre dead. ย โ
โ ย i donโt really blame you for being dead but you canโt have your sweater back.ย โ
โ ย you can sleep now, you said. you can sleep now. you said that. i had a dream where you said that. thanks for saying that. you werenโt supposed to. ย โ
โ ย hello darling, welcome home. ย โ
โ ย please keep him safe. ย โ
โ ย i just donโt want to die anymore. ย โ
โ ย you want to die for love, you always have. ย โ
โ ย you didnโt think youโd feel this way. ย โ
โ ย you saved my life. i owe you, i owe you everything. ย โ
โ ย please, just for one night, will you lie down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up. ย โ
โ ย youโre all i ever wanted and worth dying for, too. ย โ
โ ย drive into that tree, drive off the embankment. ______, make something happen. ย โ
โ ย we are not dirty. ย โ
โ ย you keep singing along to that song i hate. stop singing. ย โ
โ ย here is the sink to wash away the blood. ย โ
โ ย this is not harmless. you are not breathing. ย โ
โ ย i will come back from the dead for you. ย โ