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1.6k · May 2021
7:26am
Johnny Dust May 2021
its 7:26am
and i’ve convinced myself
that you still talk to me
in the form of bukowski quotes
left in places you know i’ll see
i haven’t slept
but when i close my eyes
we still talk a lot
It’s all flat sounds
939 · Feb 2021
To A Friend
Johnny Dust Feb 2021
Will you call me?
Or maybe you could draw me and send me a picture
Make me pretty, make me something someone would be proud of
Put a smile on me
with eyes narrowed
Cause I’m cheesin thinking bout you and your beauty
Love makes me weak
Macedonia never had better dwellers
935 · Mar 2022
Hazel
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
I really hate
the chemicals in your brain
Uneven and
Unforgiving
They’re giving you a hard time today
786 · May 2022
Full
Johnny Dust May 2022
The things I love in life are taking shape in front of my eyes. And the people I love are loving me back.
569 · Oct 2021
Jenna
Johnny Dust Oct 2021
And now I have to remember you
Longer than I knew you
I was a child acting like a child.
And
I’m irrevocably
Sorry
539 · Jul 2021
“Are you okay?”
Johnny Dust Jul 2021
Once you know what the question is

You’ll understand what the answer means
368 · Mar 2022
Ringside
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
It’s no mistake we met,
Not mere chance or happenstance,
like it was written in some old dusty book,

I’ll fight in your corner,
And if oak doors and drywall have taught me anything,
It’s that I’ve got a mean right hook.
Stay in my corner, and I’ll fight in yours
342 · Aug 2021
Pulchritudinous
Johnny Dust Aug 2021
“A real dish risks being eaten for breakfast”
It’s all fun and games until you never let anyone near you
330 · Apr 2022
8 Years
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
I woke up this morning and realized that I had made my lips chapped from trying to taste you again over and over and over and over and over and over
Johnny Dust Jan 2021
Talk me down
Take your turn
Cigarette
Let it burn
Ease the pain
Lose my mind
Lies flow out
Like "I'm Divine"
Johnny Dust Feb 2021
I can drown myself all I like
All of the pretty words can still the waters
When I come down I’ll come back around

They will all say, “keep your cool, calm down”
They are afraid
My fear of their fear keeps me awake

At whatever sacrifice of my sanity
For whatever meaningless piece of reality
Someone said sleep is death taking it’s practice
289 · Dec 2021
Feel Free
Johnny Dust Dec 2021
No amount of people saying they love you
Will make up for you not loving yourself

Which you can do
At any time,
You know you can choose to love yourself temporarily or even forever?

If you want to
But you don’t

So you won’t.
289 · Aug 2021
August 12th
Johnny Dust Aug 2021
And I looked in the mirror,
“I know who you are,
And you’ve won today,
But you will not win everyday.”
285 · Apr 2022
Sugar Pill
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
I’m busy with your friends downtown
Only one rotation before I buy the rounds
And we talk about all the bands
All my mistakes are well within my hands
284 · Dec 2021
The Devil
Johnny Dust Dec 2021
“Anyway, you say you're too busy saving everybody else

to save yourself

And you don't want no help, oh well
That's the story to tell”
283 · Jun 2021
Okay
Johnny Dust Jun 2021
Okay I love it so I love you guys so I can do that for when I love it I just want you guys too much and I’ll see what I want for when I have a chance at you and I can help with the other stuff and I’ll lay on my head and I’ll make you feel like you are in love and I miss your love and I miss my heart and love your love and I love love mama love love miss mama love love mama mama love love miss mama love mama love love miss mama love mama love love miss mama love love you mama love love mama mama love love miss mama love love you love love miss mama love love you love love miss mama love love you mama love love miss mama love love you love love miss mama love love you love love miss mama
I can do that when I’m ready
I guess my typing suggestions are pretty centered
274 · Mar 2021
Ampersand:Hearts
Johnny Dust Mar 2021
I miss your friends
I miss my friends
I miss everyone at once

You’ve got the heart I’ve got the aches
Babe
And God I wish I was coming back
272 · Feb 2022
Casper Little
Johnny Dust Feb 2022
Once this scene plays out there’s no stopping the curtains descending.  So tell me what it means to be relatable and I’ll be the kind of character you can stand behind.

Either all in or pretending.
I’ll try to keep my promises better
266 · May 2021
Flatsound
Johnny Dust May 2021
“Did everything feel beautiful when you let go of the idea of being anything at all?”
I love what you do. Continue with haste.
264 · Aug 2021
Waves
Johnny Dust Aug 2021
Things will get better,
Because they always do.

And things will get worse,
Because they always do.
259 · Mar 2022
The First Time
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
I was nervous
You were drinking,
So I bought a bottle
To numb the feeling.
Got off me knees and
Took you to bed,
We both regret it
But we'd lie instead.
The smell of Makers Mark still reminds me of your lips
258 · Aug 2021
All Get Out
Johnny Dust Aug 2021
“In the end, you're free to be the sum of all your failures
Or turn it inside out to meet the final narrative
I'm alright, but not at all
Kind of hate it
A lovely piece of wood that won't get used, so it gets wasted
And maybe I could make a decent dollar selling t-shirts
Or quit it all and take an easy dollar from your church”
I know, I know what do I know?
Listen to All Get Out
258 · Mar 2021
Lately
Johnny Dust Mar 2021
“I’m burning alive with stress and life”
All drawn behind my chest
There’s no running
I’ll wait for it to take its course
Then be well
229 · Jan 2021
First Morning
Johnny Dust Jan 2021
First morning of autumn
5:22
I can see my breath float away
But I still cannot see you

The days are circling in and out
Way too fast for me

First morning in your room
7:13
Well that was unexpected
But let’s make this a thing

Days keep circling in and out
Way too fast for me
227 · Feb 2022
You and I
Johnny Dust Feb 2022
The truth is, we are dying.



Whether we like it or not, but I think the truth of the matter is that we do.



If we didn’t like it so much, we wouldn’t dwell on it so much.
224 · Apr 2021
October
Johnny Dust Apr 2021
Baptized in anger in pity and pride
And I won’t sleep tonight
Its only a drink
You only care what I think
When you’re high
Johnny Dust Apr 2021
What’s the point now
When Monday is a cage
218 · Mar 2022
Spare Matches
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
It’s not that easy, after the sun goes down
Oh quit looking at me that way, like I’m new to town,
In the full moon I get the most dangerous desires,
It’s not your fault, I keep starting my own fires.
Lend me all your time, and I’ll return to you covered in ash
215 · Apr 2022
April 22nd
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
I took my ring off because it got too heavy on my finger
I don’t think bees know that they die after they get rid of their stinger
Happy Birthday
205 · Feb 2021
Athens
Johnny Dust Feb 2021
You told me all of the rules
But you were the first to lose
Say what you have to say to
Never share the blame
It’s you and your beliefs against the world
203 · Feb 2021
Falling
Johnny Dust Feb 2021
In my dreams I’m falling
So it seems till I wake
It’s the chase
I’m not fast enough

Somethings wrong in my head
Not that it’s a bother

In my mind I’m falling
Deeper still it’s too late
When no one comes
To the rescue

Nothings wrong just
Let me breathe
Breathe in.Breathe out.Breathe in.Breathe out.
201 · May 2021
Fear Trap
Johnny Dust May 2021
Well I'm dying but not right now
I've been trying to take the life I've found
And make a fire out of all that's left
But I keep getting burned
Small progress rarely satisfies
200 · May 2021
the kitchen
Johnny Dust May 2021
It’s in the kitchen we tell all
It’s an intoxicating relief
We can open up without a single drink
And then always in the kitchen
After another deadpan back and forth
We all fill up on everything but the sink
199 · Feb 2021
Lavender Blue
Johnny Dust Feb 2021
I don't quite remember your name
But I know the wrinkles when you smile
And it's all I can do to keep my cool
Cause I haven't felt this way in a while
Late at night I wonder
191 · Mar 2022
Intrepid
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
The unforeseen has a way

of being                                                        

exactly what it is.
When it catches up to you
189 · Mar 2022
Instant
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
Between great heights and greater lows,
I see you.
No molds and a trembling community,
I see you.
You will love yourself. You will be free, and
I see you.
You often giggle at how trite the world is,
I see you.
What you need, the promise of good, of joy,
I see you.
And in an instant you disappear.
I love our talks
Just don’t love what we talk about
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
It’s getting harder

                                To feel
                                                    
                                                       What I say


I’m feeling.
I want a conversation with just your eyes.
183 · Dec 2021
Tied up in your mind
Johnny Dust Dec 2021
And crying selfish tears from all the good grace of your own love

I think you’re just too young for all of your heart
182 · Mar 2022
Kells
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
How terrifying to see eternity when I look at you.
All the unflinching and unchambered pain and grief and joy and achievement in your years to come.
You’re all but too big a heart for your body, and all too shallow a breath for as much as you dive headfirst.
It hurts me when it hurts you. And I hate it. And I love it.
181 · May 2022
Growing Szn
Johnny Dust May 2022
Through long nights and sleepless too
It’s killing me cause it’s killing you
But that’s the reason
They call it growing season
And I sure hope we’ll make it through
Cause there’s no me if there’s no you
And I can hold you through the pain
If you can hold me just the same
171 · Jun 2021
I-20
Johnny Dust Jun 2021
Nothing more satisfying than wasting fossil fuels on a trip back to your hometown

And

I can’t get wasted because I wasted all of my money on drugs
164 · Apr 2022
Give It Some Time
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
They are just motels
repaying a debt
So don't be a fool thinking
loyalty
Is just living quietly in their
head;
Only coming out for drops
of affection
Of everything you’re about to lose
This will be the most painful
163 · May 2022
Silver Necklace
Johnny Dust May 2022
She told me she was an empath
and I asked her why wasn’t she crying yet
I asked her why she wasn’t
screaming
159 · May 2022
Tallassee
Johnny Dust May 2022
You’re in the driver’s seat
I’m just an actor for now
I’m sat beside you we
Shoot the **** while driving to your house
154 · Mar 2022
5:30 AM
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
If I were a wiser man,
I’d take my things and leave for I am in the heat of day,
but live upon the evening.
Underpromise and Overdeliver
150 · Apr 2022
Utah
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
Laying in your bed
                      There with the lights off
      On a Thursday morning with no coffee
I started missing you.

Three nights is a long time
                        To wait for my favorite excuse
      Knock first then to ask for melatonin
We know I don’t have to.

I’m listening to your solfège
                          Tuesday just after therapy
       Wondering how lucky we both have been
To have been stumbled upon.

Leaving you at Hartsfield
                            I felt what I would consider
        A speck of a sliver of what you meant
To be left undone.

In the kitchen you’d said
                             I’ve never felt that feeling
          And I’ll never feel what you feel
But I want to learn you forever.

You are crying after hours
                              When you break yourself
            You know you break me too
Every ****** time.
I don't mind
Time and time again
147 · Mar 2022
April
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
I made up my mind
Then made it up again,

My heart was set,
yours was still growing back in.
You always did have that scary kind of funny bon mot
141 · Apr 2022
Go On
Johnny Dust Apr 2022
I’m still breathing okay
It’s mostly nicotine
But that’s planning to change
In half as long I’ll be twice my age
Or so they say
So go for it
128 · Feb 2022
Birdie Kay
Johnny Dust Feb 2022
You etched me down on paper with black ink, to be remembered for ages.
And I can’t say the same,
Save for the songs dedicated to you in hopes that you’ll hear them someday soon.
I hurt still missing Ronnie
125 · Mar 2022
Watching Movies
Johnny Dust Mar 2022
All of the best parts
                                                   Make you sorry

All of the worst parts
                                                   Make you strong
One long disciplined life and at the end,
I told you, I’m taking my shoes off and jumping on in.
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