Siken Richard

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.

We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me

spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls

right out of my mouth.

but I want it back now, baby.

An all-night barbeque. A dance on the courthouse lawn.

The radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night

is thinking. It's thinking of love.

It's thinking of stabbing us to death

and leaving our bodies in a dumpster.

That's a nice touch, stains in the night, whiskey kisses for everyone.

History is a little man in a brown suit

trying to define a room he is outside of.

I know history. There are many names in history

but none of them are ours.

I stare at you like I'm looking through a window,

counting birds.

Was there

no one else? His hands keep turning into

birds, and his hands keep flying away

from him. Eventually the birds must land.

I'm sorry

it's such a lousy story.

Do you love yourself? I don't have to

answer that. It should matter. He has a

body but it doesn't matter, clean sheets

on the bed but it doesn't matter

You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening

at the wrong end of a very long tunnel