RICHARD SIKEN SENTENCE STARTERS [EXTENDED]
– So I really liked the original meme here, so much that I ended up buying the poet’s book Crush to read.
Inspiration hit and here are 79 lines, categorized by poem. Feel free to change pronouns and any names!
❝Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.❞
❝Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable.❞
❝Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.❞
❝Tell me we’ll never get used to it.❞
❝There’s a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I’m about to burst into tears.❞
❝I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.❞
❝You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.❞
❝I’m sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.❞
❝I like him and I want to be like him, my hands no longer an afterthought.❞
❝Someone once told me than explaining is an admission of failure.❞
❝I’m sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.❞
❝History repeats itself.❞
❝There are many names in history but none of them are ours.❞
❝You could drown in those eyes, I said.❞
❝But damn if there isn’t anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.❞
❝What would you like? I’d like my money’s worth.❞
❝Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.❞
❝I couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.❞
❝Tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.❞
❝You do the math, you expect the trouble.❞
❝Draw a circle with a piece of chalk. Imagine standing in a constant cone of light. Imagine surrender. Imagine being useless.❞
❝A stone on the path means the tea’s not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody’s angry.❞
❝The stone inside you still hasn’t hit bottom.❞
❝There is no way to make this story interesting.❞
❝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.❞
❝Tell me we’re dead and I’ll love you even more.❞
❝And he knew it wasn’t going to be okay, and he told me it wasn’t going to be okay.❞
❝But the minutes don’t stop.❞
❝And words, little words, words too small for any hope or promise, not really soothing but soothing nonetheless.❞
LITANY IN WHICH CERTAIN THINGS ARE CROSSED OUT
❝You will be alone always and then you will die.❞
❝So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts, something other than the desperation.❞
❝I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.❞
❝You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?❞
❝I can tell you already think I’m the dragon, that would be so like me, but I’m not. I’m not the dragon. I’m not the princess either.❞
❝Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.❞
❝And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.❞
❝Shut up. I’m getting to it.❞
❝For a while I thought I was the dragon.❞
❝Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal.❞
❝You still get to be the hero.❞
❝What more do you want?❞
❝Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?❞
❝Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.❞
❝There is something underneath the floorboards.❞
❝I arrived in the city and you met me at the station, smiling in a way that made me frightened.❞
❝This doesn’t look that much different from home.❞
❝Love, for you, is more than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying.❞
❝Okay, if you’re so great, you do it–❞
❝Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.❞
❝I have told you where I’m coming from, so put it together.❞
❝When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.❞
A PRIMER FOR THE SMALL WEIRD LOVES
❝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.❞
❝And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy.❞
❝He wants to be tender and merciful.❞
❝He meaning you.❞
❝Do you love yourself?❞
❝I don’t have to answer that.❞
❝It should matter.❞
❝I don’t think I can take this much longer.❞
❝In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.❞
❝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.❞
❝Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.❞
❝I borrowed your shoes and didn’t put them away.❞
❝You didn’t show up. I kept waiting.❞
❝You have a cold cold smile.❞
❝Watch me, just watch me.❞
❝I swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass.❞
❝I don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.❞
❝You can sleep now, you said. You said that. I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that. You weren’t supposed to.❞
❝And you play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.❞
❝You saved my life. I owe you, I owe you everything.❞
❝Let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk.❞
❝Don’t bother. You never mean it anyway, not really, and it only makes me that much more ashamed.❞
❝Please, for just one night, will you lie down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up…❞
❝Do you see what I mean? Do you see what I’m getting at?❞
❝If you love me, _____ , you don’t love me in a way I understand.❞
❝Do you want to go home now?❞
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