richard siken sentence starters.
quotes are all taken from various poems out of richard sikenâs poetry book crush. feel free to change pronouns/etc if needed.
â Â tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. Â â
â Â tell me weâll never get used to it. Â â
â Â there are so many things iâm not allowed to tell you. Â â
â Â i swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth. Â â
â Â i want it back now, baby. i want it back. Â â
â Â iâm sorry. we know how it works. the world is no longer mysterious. Â â
â Â thatâs a nice touch. Â â
â Â i like him and i want to be like him. Â â
â Â iâm sure you remember, i was on the phone with you, sweetheart. Â â
â Â history repeats itself. Â â
â Â there are many names in history, but none of them are ours. Â â
â Â you could drown in those eyes. Â â
â Â but damn if there isnât anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills. Â â
â Â sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine. Â â
â Â i couldnât get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time. Â â
â Â you wanted happiness, i canât blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me youâre not miserable. Â â
â Â there is no way to make this story interesting. Â â
â Â 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. Â â
â Â tell me weâre dead and iâll love you even more. Â â
â Â you will be alone always and then you will die. Â â
â Â iâm sorry i came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. Â â
â Â who am i? iâm just a writer. i write things down. Â â
â Â i take it back. Â â
â Â here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed. Â â
â Â you still get to be the hero. Â â
â Â what more do you want? Â â
â Â love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. itâs like a religion. itâs terrifying. Â â
â Â no one will ever want to sleep with you. Â â
â Â you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things i want to ask you. Â â
â Â you had not expected this. Â â
â Â walk a mile in my shoes. Â â
â Â a man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then heâs still left with the river. Â â
â Â you are weak and hollow and it doesnât matter anymore. Â â
â Â hush, my sweet. these tornadoes are for you. Â â
â Â that sounds overly valorous. Â â
â Â do you love yourself? Â â
â Â i donât have to answer that. Â â
â Â you wanted more. Â â
â Â i had a dream about you. Â â
â Â thereâs nowhere to go. thereâs nowhere to go. Â â
â Â in these dreams itâs always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge. Â â
â Â will you love me even more when iâm dead? Â â
â Â you didnât show up. i kept waiting. Â â
â Â i swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass and youâre dead. Â â
â  i donât really blame you for being dead but you canât have your sweater back. â
â Â 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 werenât supposed to. Â â
â Â hello darling, welcome home. Â â
â Â please keep him safe. Â â
â Â i just donât want to die anymore. Â â
â Â you want to die for love, you always have. Â â
â Â you didnât think youâd feel this way. Â â
â Â you saved my life. i owe you, i owe you everything. Â â
â Â please, just for one night, will you lie down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up. Â â
â Â youâre all i ever wanted and worth dying for, too. Â â
â Â drive into that tree, drive off the embankment. ______, make something happen. Â â
â Â we are not dirty. Â â
â Â you keep singing along to that song i hate. stop singing. Â â
â Â here is the sink to wash away the blood. Â â
â Â this is not harmless. you are not breathing. Â â
â Â i will come back from the dead for you. Â â