“We still groped for each other on the backstairs or in parked cars                                                                                                                                                      as the road around usgrew glossy with ice and our breath softened the view through the glass                    already laced with frost,but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless, and he was running out of                                                                                                                                                                          lullabies. But damn if there isn’t anything sexier                                                            than a slender boy with a handgun,                                                                                                                                  a fast car, a bottle of pills.”

Richard Siken

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