M. J. (busy biologist*)’s Reviews > Crush: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Volume 99) > Status Update

I was adrift and the words wouldn't hit me, so I found a video of Siken reading one of his poems from this book, Straw house, straw dog, and read a tiny bit of context about this collection and now I'm sinking and these poems feel like tiny black holes, sometimes I think I'm too dumb to read poetry, but now I'm just slightly devastated

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.