found Richard Siken’s new book, I Do Know Some Things, to be remarkable unexpected turns of language, glitchy sequence, slant & sometimes-discomfiting candor, pitchdark humor that legit made me lol, not very excerptable—rather, slow build into an astonishing compendium of, & reflection on, a life

C’est moi

I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the tile floors ~from "The Wolf" by David Joez Villaverde 🔥AGNI 101🔥