[text ID: Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. /end ID]
from Black Telephone by Richard Siken
[text ID: The phone rings and you pick it up and it’s bad news. Now what do you do? / The phone rings and I pick it up and I really wanted to do something else with my hands. /end ID]
[text ID: I’m a romantic, an absurdist. I am bad with facts and I get confused. I’m a hostile witness. I didn’t want to see this, talk about this. /end ID]