Siken Richard

I’m pulling you out of the burning buildings

and you say I’ll give you anything but you never come through

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts

from one foot to the other.

Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on

Of course, she wakes the dragon

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly

flames everywhere.

I can tell already you 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.

to make a creature that will do what I say

or love me back

Inside your head you hear

a phone ringing, and when you open your eyes you're washing up

in a stranger's bathroom,

standing by the window in a yellow towel, only twenty minutes away

from the dirtiest thing you know.

We were inside the train car when I started to cry. You were crying too,

smiling and crying in a way that made me

even more hysterical. You said I could have anything I wanted, but I

just couldn't say it out loud.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.

The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.

You had not expected this