Richard Siken - You Are Jeff

[bloodrebel333]

I was going through Siken's tag and found out this hadn't been posted in two years, and it is one of the most beautiful poems I've ever read.

You Are Jeff
Richard Siken

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There are two twins on motorbikes but one is farther up the road, beyond the hairpin turn, or just before it, depending on which twin you are in love with at the time. Do not choose

Comments

[insideand_out]

yes this was fucking beautiful.
thank you

[ashlad]

intriguing for the first 10 paras, tedious thereafter.

[calyn_rose]

Yeah... I really liked the beginning and the very end, though.

[ashlad]

I thought the end was a bit lame. That bit abt discovering "something you don't even have a name for" is a hackneyed/pretentious way of saying new experience, and I interpret it here as the experience of a new type of love - it was probably a reference to "the love that dare not speak its name", ie homosexuality. But the execution was more clumsy than artful.

Just saying.

[inoubliable1]

Ahh Siken just climbs straight into my head and stays.

[appyella]

Ugh, so ridiculously amazing.
Thanks for taking the time and energy to type this out, it's appreciated.