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It’s been a long day

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…Days too small to fill their slots,
days too large for the day to hold them.
And days, no matter what their size,
that leaked into the next.
A leaky day is a dangerous thing…

– Richard Siken, from The Field of Rooms and Halls

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Saturday Morning

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Maybe we will wake up to the silence
of shoes at the foot of the bed
not going anywhere.

— Richard Siken, excerpt of Dots Everywhere from War of the Foxes

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Good Friday

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I woke up in the morning
and I didn’t want anything,
didn’t do anything,
couldn’t do it anyway,
just lay there listening
to the blood rush through me
and it never made any sense, anything.

~ Richard Siken, excerpt from Straw House, Straw Dog from Crush.

Source: To escape from the commonplace of existence. Photo: Laura Schaeffer via eikadan