crush

Sorry about the bony elbows,
     sorry we lived here,
          sorry about the scene
               at the bottom of the stairwell
and how i ruined everything
                    by saying it out loud.

Especially that,
but i should have known. you see
i take the parts that i remember and stitch
them back together to make a creature that
will do what i say or love me back.

_Richard Siken