[text ID: She used to believe that words not only meant something but they helped. I think this is the real problem. Sometimes words don’t help. /end ID]
[text ID: Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole. I doubt that I’m the only one who feels this way. /end ID]
Richard Siken, Wishbone // A Primer for the Small Weird Loves
[text ID: A dead man at our feet staring up at us like we’re something interesting / You though if you handed over your body he’d do something interesting /end ID]
THE WAY THE LIGHT REFLECTS | Richard Siken
[text ID: Negative space is silly. When you bang on the wall you have to remember you’re on both sides of it already but go ahead, yell at yourself. /end ID]
[text ID: You said if people wanted to change the world, they would. You said most people like it this way. Too bad for them, I say, I want something else. /end ID]