Sean Thomas Dougherty Quotes

“When you were strung out

and I kissed you
I imagined your mouth

a mound of cocaine,
inhaling your breath

like powder as I pushed
into you and you pulled

me with your bruised thighs.
Some nights we fucked so

slowly I dissolved
like a Quaalude in a glass

of vodka, and you drank
me down. We kept the room dark,

so we could not see
each other with our eyes

rolled back - or was it
because we did not want

to see ourselves.
It's taken me too long to think

of that, the way we never
thought the other would go,

and then one night
I woke up

sober
and yes,

still there.”
― Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

“Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you”
― Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

“Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias,
my brother. Every window a tenor leans,

there are sopranos in the olive branches.
And all across the globe the world

turns to crescendos.”
― Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line