![]() This poem is the reason why I chose to read Crush first, over Siken’s second collection of poems, War of the Foxes. You are in the eighth grade, in a small town, and being gay isn’t an option. His, or yours? “A boy who likes boys is a dead boy,” this is your memory now. In “A Primer for the Small Weird Loves,” Siken confronts you with a childhood memory. Second blow, he is trying to kill you because you like him. Siken sets the scene: you’re in a swimming pool with a boy who is holding your head underwater. The first poem I read by Richard Siken was the first segment of “A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” and it was like a suckerpunch to the gut, dare I say several suckerpunches. ![]()
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