Richard Siken est un poète, peintre et cinéaste américain. Il est l'auteur de la collection Crush, qui a remporté le concours Yale Series of Younger Poets en 2004. Son deuxième livre de poèmes, War of the Foxes, est sorti de Copper Canyon Press en 2015.
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.
You swallow my heart and flee, and I want it back now, baby. I want it back.
We pull our boots on with both hands
but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do
is stand and the curb and say Sorry
about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.
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.