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Feb 2015 · 714
She
rusty shacks Feb 2015
She
moves like ash through the air
                                                off a balcony
                                                            Me
                                                             of course I’m coarse like gloves  
                                                for falconry
                                                        ­    My
                                                             stomach is the water of the
                                                Balkan Sea
                                                            Her
                                                             cadence is the snow in Fuji
                                                mountain’s spring
                                                          ­  She’s
                                                             a tree I would down just
                                                to count the rings
                                                            When­
                                                             she moves her mouth in any
                                                amount it sings


                                                            Sh­e’s
                                                            When­.
                                                            she’­s
                                                            when­,
                                                          silent­ sirens sing
                                                  on violent violet islets
                                                            and seems
                                                    all the world’s a dream
                                                             I
                                                             am
                                                               the
                                                   breeze the sea sends
                                                           ­   and seas uneven
                                                          ­  sinks ships
                                                           ­     clips wings
                                                                ­ indecent
                                                        ­        is ants
                                                                ­ in the lips
                                                          of her honey drip
                                                                ­       ings
                                                                ­        swings
                                                  ­                      whips
                                     ­                                    glist
                                                                ­           ning
                                                                ­          eclips
                                                ­                           ed  
                                                            ­           miss thing
                                                                ­      get with
                                                            ­            hitch
                                                                ­          ings?
                                                                ­         drip
                                                                ­    queen of kings
                                                           ­               miss  
                                           ­                                myth
                                                            ­             I’m miss
                                                            ­                  ing
                                           ­                           can we just slip
                                                                ­                 into
                                                                ­                  exist
                                                                ­                   ing
                                                             ­             got you in my grip
                                                                ­                 my grip
                                                                ­                     is
                                                                ­                   tight
                                                           ­                          ning
rusty shacks Dec 2014
Today was my 21st birthday.
Truth.
Daily cycle.
This is pretty much my life.
Robin Williams commits suicide and the media blows up
Today is National Suicidal Prevention Day and no one knows about it.
Every day of my life
tired
Optimism feels like a delusion
Don't be too ******* yourself today...
What depression isnt
I think this every day I wake up and every night I go to sleep
If we treated all illnesses the way we treat mental illness
Walking home after a bad week and saw this written on an overpass that
I used to regularly contemplate jumping over:
"I like your shirt."
Even though I felt like killing myself I went to this art therapy class
and made something
I have it hanging in my room and whenever I feel down, I just look at it
The best revenge of all...live
I need help but I don't know what kind
I tried to ask my family for help and their answer was God

I went and returned my supplies today.
I'm leaving you guys.
I love you guys.
I may get no awards. I may not get recognized.
But hey, I'm the happiest person you know.
Mar 2014 · 490
brainfood
rusty shacks Mar 2014
Through dreary windshield and tired eyes
I let you in to my path, paved and distraught
Only to find you now ahead of me, just as expected
It would seem that no good deed goes unpunished
But is this unfair
Or just the natural order of the world?
Mar 2014 · 1.0k
dripping off my tongue
rusty shacks Mar 2014
it's feels great to inhale.
breathing and smoking, forgetting stories and suppressing ideas.
or just breathing.
and exhaling. remembering.
and making a faint noise, like the last humming vowel of the last word written on the back of your school photo that you gave me saying "para el amor de mi vida, para que me recuerdes. siempre"
and it does feel good letting you hold onto the tip of my tongue.
you can stay there as long as you like.
Feb 2014 · 477
pact
rusty shacks Feb 2014
I did not meet Death at his door,
But greeted Him in a dream.
I was told He was disappointed,
As He so longed to see me.
I failed at something simple:
To fall asleep forever;
But then I woke up next to you
And you didn't.
rusty shacks Feb 2014
i could tie a noose
with the apologies i'd write
to everybody that i love.
maybe i could tie bandages
with apologies around every scar
i've left on someone else.
so many "sorry i left you's,"
and "sorry i'll leave you's,"
"sorry i started this"
"sorry i ended this"
"sorry i can't"
"sorry i"

so many sorrows
it's like i could tie a noose
Feb 2014 · 520
The Monster
rusty shacks Feb 2014
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU LOST YOUR WAY?
WHEN REAL LIFE STEALS THE HIGH YOU LONG TO CHASE
YOU CAN'T CATCH HIM, ELUSIVE DRAGON THAT USED TO INTOXICATE
BACK WHEN YOU WERE PASSIONATE, BEFORE YOU WERE TRAPPED IN THAT AWKWARD SPACE
BETWEEN FOLLOWING SILLY DREAMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
TOXIC NAUSEA'S FILLING ME AS THAT BLADE THAT DROPS UNFORGIVINGLY
IT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY TO REGAIN THE STRENGTH OF THOSE DAYS FILLED WITH ANGST
WITH THE FLAMES THAT BLAZED INSIDE OF MY EYES TAMED
I CRAVE FOR THE TASTE OF THOSE HEIGHTS THAT I BRAVED
FOR THESE WORDS TO TAKE LIFT AND FLIGHT FROM THE PAGE
WITH SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT BEFORE MY SKIES FADE
BUT WITH WINGS MADE OF WAX THAT COLLAPSE IN THE LIGHT OF DAY
I'D HAVE TO FLY IN THE NIGHT GUIDED BY BLIND FAITH
AND FAITH IS LIKE A MAGIC TRICK THAT I CAN NO LONGER CONJURE
SO I JUST WANDER, CONQUERED, WORK TIL MY HANDS AND PALMS HURT
AND PONDER THE MONSTER THAT FOLLOWS ME, A STALKER
THAT SAUNTERS BEHIND ME REMINDING ME HOW I FALTERED
Feb 2014 · 554
Where Does the Time Go?
rusty shacks Feb 2014
I'VE SMOKED MY FRIENDS DOWN TO THE FILTER.
DRAGGED MYSELF TO THE GUTTER.
WITH THE BUMS AND THE BROKEN,
THE WEARY AND DOWNTRODDEN.
THE DREGS OF MY CITY'S TEACUP.
AND AS NIGHT FALLS, THE VERMIN COME CRAWLING.
LIKE ROACHES IN A DARKENED KITCHEN.
OR AN OPEN GRAVE.
SO.
WITH SUNKEN EYES AND A HEAVY HEART,
I BURNED MY LAST BRIDGE TO THE PAST.
DISTANCE, ABSENCE, LOST.
Feb 2014 · 789
New York City Punk Rock Man
rusty shacks Feb 2014
HEY GAUGED EAR HAND TATTOOED
LOVER OF THE CYMBAL CRASH
I FINALLY HEARD JAWBREAKERS'
ORIGINAL VERSION OF "DO YOU STILL HATE ME?"
I LIKE SET YOUR GOALS' VERSION MORE
BUT IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM
WHERE ALL THINGS COME FROM
I GOT MY TONGUE STABBED AND A TRAIN TUNNEL ETCHED
INTO THE DITCH OF MY ARM THAT DAY, IT ALL FELT SO GOOD
I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT CAME FROM
BUT ITS MY TRACK AND NOT YOURS
I LIKE IT MORE
BUT IT'S GOOD TO KNOW
Feb 2014 · 948
His Blood
rusty shacks Feb 2014
SPECKLES ATOP HIS HAND HE TELLS ME,
!I CAN'T HIT MY ARMS ANYMORE.
I CAN'T EITHER
PATRON SAINT OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS
OUR DRIVE INTO THE CITY
STOMACH ROT AND SWEAT BEADS
THE DRIVE HOME SPEED ***** AND
DREAMS
YOU'RE NOT TRYING TODAY BROTHER
AND TOMORROW IS OUR DEBT TO PAY
DO WE NOT STAND WHERE GREAT MEN STOOD
AND DISSOLVE IN THE BURNING LIGHT
rusty shacks Feb 2014
HOW GLORIOUS IS IT THAT
WE WITH OUR MERE ANCHORS FOR BODIES
CAN EXPERIENCE SHORT BATTLES OF TIME THAT LIFT US FROM WHERE WE ARE
TURN ON THE LIGHTS.
YOU KNOW, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING
AND THEIR EYES LIGHT UP AND
YOU JUST DEEPLY WANT TO PAINT WITH THE COLOR OF THEIR VOICE.
BECAUSE YOU COULD ALWAYS DIG THAT PAINTING OUT OF THE ATTIC
AND STARE INTO THE COLORAND REMEMBER,
EVEN FOR A SECOND,
YOU CAN CLIMB ONCE AGAIN TO THE PEAK OF THAT MOMENT AND REST UPON IT.
YOU CAN SIT AT THE TOP AND SEE FOR MILES,
THE FEELINGS, THE SMELLS, THE BEFORES AND AFTERS OF RIGHT THEN
Feb 2014 · 321
Lover After Lover
rusty shacks Feb 2014
I STARE IN THE MIRROR
EVERY DAY AND LOOK AT
WHAT I COULD'VE BECOME.
I STARE AT WHAT PEOPLE CALL SCARS
BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO BELIEVE
THAT I'M JUST UGLY.
I'VE CAUGHT SOBS AND SCREAMS
IN A TRAP IN MY THROAT
THAT EVERYONE MISTAKES FOR A NAME.
LOVER AFTER LOVER AFTER LOVER
RUNS A HAND WHERE MY HEART NEVER WAS
AND ASKS, "WHO WAS SHE?"
Feb 2014 · 522
Too Visceral
rusty shacks Feb 2014
THE DAY THEY BURIED MY GRANDFATHER I
SKIPPED TWO TOWNS OVER FOR YOUTO FILL ME LIKE THE SOIL THAT
FILLED HIS GRAVE
YOU TOLD ME TO PRETEND THAT MY LIP
SWERE THE TRAIN
FOR THE TRACKS ON YOUR ARM
I COULDN'T BEAR TO TELL YOU THEN
THAT I DIDN'T MEAN WHEN I SAID
I WANTED YOU LOOMING OVER ME ALWAYS
LIKE SOME SAD AND FRAGILE GOD
Feb 2014 · 607
Sex Work
rusty shacks Feb 2014
SITTING IN YOUR CAR WAS THE ONLY THING I KNEW HOW
TO DO DRUNK AT 2AM
YOU KNEW SO MANY GIRLS FROM
CALIFORNIA FROM RUSSIA FROM BRAZIL BUT NONE OF THEM
WERE ME
YOU SAID THIS AS IF IT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FLATTERING
I WOULD FLAY THE SKIN FROM MY RIBS FOR ANOTHER DRINKI SMILE THROUGH GRITTING TEETH
THIS IS NOT WHERE I PICTURED MYSELF
AS A WIDE EYED FRESH DAISIED GIRL
WHO DRINKS FROM HER GRANDFATHERS FLASK
WHEN SHE THINKS NO ONE IS LOOKING
YOUR ONLY MISTAKE WAS DRIVING TOO FAR UNTIL
THE ONLY LIGHTS I COULD SEE WERE THE ONES BEHIND MY EYESWHEN YOU STRUCK ME SINGING
DARLING, LET'S GIVE LOVE A TRY
THIS WAS NEVER MEANT FOR YOUYOU THINK THAT LOVE LIES BETWEEN THE LEGS OF A GIRL
TOO DAMAGED TO KNOW NOT TO RIDE IN CARS
WITH BOYS WHO LOOK LIKE HER FATHER
I'D HAVE KISSED YOUR KNUCKLES WHEN YOU
MADE THAT FIST
IF I COULD FIND ANY COMPASSION LEFT IN ME
Feb 2014 · 474
Millenial Blues
rusty shacks Feb 2014
surely I must realize
this is all about deceit
the buildings fall, I've seen it all
insert, press play, repeat
the shadows from our future
fall on the gentle and the meek
the buildings fall, we've seen it all
insert, press play, repeat
surely you must realize
this will all lead to defeat
the buildings fall, you've seen it all
insert, press play, repeat
its all been read and seen and heard
there is no one left to meet
the buildings fall, I've seen it all
insert, press play, repeat
Feb 2014 · 2.9k
Propaganda
rusty shacks Feb 2014
We as the United States generate hate
by overstepping our bounds
moving our military into other nations
The real root cause to drill oil in the ground
Cause we need oil to move
our economy - so we ignore
other countries rights to autonomy
Because we're America bringing freedom
to the world - yes please understand
We'll help out Libya and Iraq but
not Rwanda or Sudan - its the American plan -
We bring freedom if you've got something for us
So please adore us, give us
your natural resources - then we'll
destroy your country and be its only
recourse - we use force to get
what we need even if it means
making more die and bleed -
so cut the real TV feed and let
the American media propaganda proceed
Feb 2014 · 340
Jump
rusty shacks Feb 2014
only the soles of my
feet are still here
the rest of me is up in the air
and if I jump
I disconnect
then I'm somewhere else
just the ***** of my feet
and the tips of my toes
hold me here against the tide
that goes
around and through me and
past my home
in me and over me
as I stay sunk like a stone
toes curl and carpet cling
to wood
while I jump, disconnect,
and land back where I stood
Feb 2014 · 598
Untitled
rusty shacks Feb 2014
you have become
the hope
in the corner of my eye
the face in the crowd
that disappears
on second glance
the default daydream
and you have
no idea
Feb 2014 · 870
Something like virginity
rusty shacks Feb 2014
The cracks in the tile, the foam
on the glass, coalescing iotas,
joined jots, and I see your face.

Mis-en-scenes of sweat, alone
in my room at morning, the
second time I've seen your face
today, and I want to leave some
on my chest.

This is for you. This is for you
And it's all I'll ever be.

So have me taste you - and
consume me. And glut over the
sinewy linings of my edges. Let
moments on the insidde of my
eyes. Show me.

So have me feel you - and splinter
me. And love me til I shatter.
Let me watch, as hands that smell
of honesty and your roughness
press knuckles into my thighs
and bruise them. Show me.

So have me worship you - and
condemn me...

Have me a heresiarch of human
days. Grand me an opprobrium
from sense. Let the scars
that I be you to place upon
me never fade back into the
ideas of my flesh.
Show me, and please, show me
that I'll see your face not
only in the small, but in the
larger death for want.
Feb 2014 · 594
My first limerick
rusty shacks Feb 2014
There once was a boy named Nick
Who wrote a great limerick
It didn't match rhyme scheme
Had improper meter
But it wasn't ***** either
Feb 2014 · 431
El es D
rusty shacks Feb 2014
I am warm my hands are
flowing to the rhythm

Sometimes my feet can't stay
on the ground I begin
to float in the air and there
is a high pitched ringing
and everything turns orange
and pink and I
am held BY ALL of the
many vectors that intertwine
this chair with those trees

But I am okay I just
need to touch the ground
so I can sit down
and read my book
Feb 2014 · 266
Untitled
rusty shacks Feb 2014
blackout city
population you and i
everyone is welcome but not remembered
have a nice stay
Dec 2013 · 542
motion sickness
rusty shacks Dec 2013
Motion sickness

doesn’t come from

all the movement

as much as it’s

from feeling like

you’re sitting still

and realizing you

don’t know how to

stop

the **** thing

Sometimes I get

motion sickness

watching the news
Dec 2013 · 14.1k
my skateboard
rusty shacks Dec 2013
the first day i spent in

Venice, CA

i bought the 2 most

ster e o typical

things

Number 1

was my medical marijuana license

Number 2 was my skateboard

I’m not very good

at skateboarding

but when you shred

on the boardwalk

people get out of your way faster

and thats really all i wanted
Dec 2013 · 1.2k
skin color
rusty shacks Dec 2013
Middle-Easterns are red
Asians are blue
If you open up Photoshop
And **** with the hue
Dec 2013 · 3.6k
bacon is bacon
rusty shacks Dec 2013
bacon is bacon.
eggs are eggs.
don’t let him get
between your fine legs.
he says that he loves you.
he says that you're fine.
then 9 months later
he says: that ain't mine!
Sep 2013 · 869
repellant
rusty shacks Sep 2013
My boyfriend asked me to strip for him, so I did.

First I took off my pride. I wore it like a shawl to protect all my insecurities. He loved it.

I took off my shame. It hung around my legs, a thousand uncomfortable memories wound tight
like twine to hide my ability to be free and open. He loved it.

I took off my fear. They gripped my feet like stone slippers, hoping to keep me from ever leaping
as far as I was capable, often succeeding. He loved it.

Finally I took off my doubt. The doubt that was there so long it had become me. I ripped it off
revealing the flesh of my love for him and the bone-depth of my feelings for him and the blood
that rushed for only him, forever.

He didn’t love that.

He left wearing my clothes.

I dressed for winter.
Jun 2013 · 1.7k
SLACK-JAW
rusty shacks Jun 2013
For my autopsy, there will be a crowd around my corpse, layed flat upon a dinner table so when they cut into me the dogs know they're in for a feast. I want them to use a pen to open my chest, they'll find my heart over stuffed with love-poems, to feed int oa machine that will determine my exact cause of death. They will find so many vessels clogged with grudges, half-truths, my sons generation will need a triple bypass.

I want them to drag that scalpel across my skin like "Is this how [x] made you feel?", open up my stomach and find enough swallowed pride to lead a thousand men to their doom in some ugly battlefield, not enough paycheck stubs to make my bank stop calling, a note I was going to leave 35 years later when I hung myself in some office cubicle, and some expired tags to a license plate, because I couldn't get the **** out of here.

I want them to speak into tape recorders and scribble on clipboards, open up my lungs that look like the crumpled up cellophane you toss away from a pack of smokes and find all the breath I've held for someone else so the atmosphere can take one big inhale, and choke.

I want them to document the burns and cuts on my hands, her skin was like a stove-top you forgot you left on, her hair full of briar and the finest papercut edges, someone said they were good looking hands but they've done some ugly things, the calluses look like shields, so even when I open up my palms, my guard isn't down.

For the final ceremony they can quarter me because the world has dissected and separated me, I hope my tendons are used to tie together some little girls swingset so I can finally feel all this stres and strain is for someones benefit.

They can take my arms and hands, put em to work to pay off my debt to a government grant like "Nobody smokes on the night shift?" Are you kidding me? Take my lungs too.

They can take my legs and feet and give them to a paraplegic, watch him become an olympic athlete, because my legs are toned and trained from all the dreams I've chased. Maybe someone else can pull these ******* past a finish lane.

I hope they drain all of my blood and use it to fill a thousand pens, and I could save a few good people some strenuous heartbeats, put a little bit of the sandmans real good **** on some bloodshot eyes, hand out some cookies and juice to get the sugar flowing, because everybody bleeds when they write.

Give my heart to a girl so she can write down all her problems and stupid inside jokes on it, and toss it to a corner of her room where she lays down from exhaustion, forget it in her car, at her friends house, on the counter of a desolate library. When she finds a heart with a little more polish, a lot less IOU's and a LOT LESS tolerance to being used, she'll know how to keep it in mint condition, because no amount of life insurance on full coverage, the interest rates skyrocketing through the roof and ironically digging you a hole, can cover the bill, when a heart breaks.

For my autopsy, there will be a crowd around my corpse, anticipating the nap of a vulture with a full stomach, oh and right- about my brain? Good luck with that, their hands will look like someone caught them stealing, and **** the rainforest they're gonna need some toothpicks, I don't even care about the leftover pieces-- but no amount of shiny surgical tools or a practitioners 10 year medical degree funded by the slack jawed desire to make people pay for a check up none of need, will be able to dissect my soul.
Jun 2013 · 779
alcoholic pentameter
rusty shacks Jun 2013
whiskey
*****
gin &
***

only thing
in
life
that's
fun

anytime
my head
is
hung
i call
my
friends

whiskey
*****
gin &
***
Jun 2013 · 529
Dry
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Dry
Not sad but not completely happy and that is the way the world is.

When it is raining so hard I can't see out the window and even if I walk into the rain and feel the water on my skins, still parts of me are arid.

Even when I have saliva and I'm hungry and thirsty and get water I do not feel completely wet.

I can't remember the last time I didn't feel dry. Arid. Devoid.

One time I went in the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara and as the waves were crashing and my hair was salt, I still felt needing to drink.

I don't know what will un-dry me.
Jun 2013 · 594
teen suicide
rusty shacks Jun 2013
The engine was still running when she leaned over the center console. He didn't get the chance to throw the **** thing into park before she started to sing. It was a simple song with a slow and steady rhythm, a thumping bass line, and in this interpretation- an early ******. Her amusement melted rather quickly. The look on her face was beautiful. He didn't realize fast enough that, through the rearview mirror, she was wearing a face of terror. As they rolled down the hill, he realized it was both a wonderful and embarrassing way to die.
Jun 2013 · 1.2k
Catharsis
rusty shacks Jun 2013
describe to me the setting sea against the tidal suns
tell me bitter lies of why it is how you used to be
and how again it was no pain for wave to break
shore leave fantasy incredible relations between
***** muck cracked claws on diamond webbings
sin first to be last to win thirst against troubled
these times are horrid ticks against the nature
of the beast of the man un nat ural ural ural the sea
it'll be better, he said he said to me once on a sunday
hell is plane that ever plain never lands upon the shores
never leaves absent mothers mothered bothered by
and never never never ever always contradicts
by nature it is it is unatural unnatured beast of wild
a forsaken tool to best be bit by other claim in sin
the thirst is taken by the moon, a tidal blood
in throat the catchings diamond webs of spiricals
of the sunday bishop movements, ever always after
before before the time it was again begun
and and in somewhat strange obtuse pear trees
strange fruit from cocoons hatched sideways
until pear time fruitlets dropped in spheres
into the open casket boiling cracking crab like muck
of breaking waves in boiling oceans, horrid licks
you find you dunce that chasing shadows much like days
pass far too quick to grasp the nettle and be stung
and be thirsty for a placement upon the mantle up
where higher drownings laugh all about the smoke
all in shade of biscuit trees all in fade of tin echoes
empty Christmas biscuit tins sound like themselves
the hollow noise of prophecy against september
again the bland misunderstandings recalled
no pain, never ever always was in hell in heaven peace
that breaks the ocean belts the cliffs produces shame
in fingertips in felt like cat skin rugs and wigs cat hair
counterparts to breeze it is the summer storms the
bleak monsoons of rain that's ****** from mothers ****
that seen to rise in single breath of sky and fall in
grey obtuse sleets to earth made sea made mirrored sky
sage test by broken widowed insect feelers pert to thunder
hunger by the hundred lightening strikes to mass in
bleak grey ember skies, silent spiracles of sun in
shade take refuse out from heap and pile again
beneath the skins of elder hills of somewhat tainted
trousers made up of younger weeds and roots and
****** thirsting up against the garage door that opens
fast too quick too soon too much and **** dirt up
again ever never after seeing hell far too often break
up break up and smile that ocean going smile
wave goodbye with breaking helm with crack of pearls
and peal of thunder late reminder of the blinding
light against the grey now november skies
again, again, it ever never is always maybe somewhat
breaking on the steps on the path away towards
under bleak stained crab carcass shores away towards
Jun 2013 · 1.2k
diffusion
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Alive!

A trillion trillion cells awake

As the "I" sinks into ecstasy, then divides

Another level of the Mundane takes shape

Burning with a trillion trillion minds
Jun 2013 · 807
Disconnect my eyeballs
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Sitting in a dark room
I feel a chill go down my spime.
my stomach pleads for release from its incarceration,
with its incessant growling, but I cannot cooperate.
All attempts to gain fluency in Russian had failed,
I cannot comprehend a backwards R, Toys 'я' us a notable exception.
Я должен уйти от этой мрачной тюремной со знанием двух языков!
I must escape this dark bilingual prison!
I turn my eyeballs inside my head
and gasp in horror at what I had become.
Jun 2013 · 360
vessels
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Three foul beings rest, perched on the bank of the avenue of the absent soul
First one, then the other makes its pick
The last, knowing it has eternity, waits
Jun 2013 · 711
A love poetry
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Decay drips from my mouth as we speak
Decay flows from the bricks of my old house
- I want to taste your indignatious decay
My plants want to feed themselves from your house
- But this is me... My whole self will become like this
My house... will remain as ruins which are to be swallowed
- Exactly, we'll be one forever
My green friends will love their new home
- Darling, I will say my last words
Never knew about your strange fetish
But I do find it arousing at this state
Find a place for us to stay forever
Somewhere nice, somewhere under the arctic ice
Jun 2013 · 2.8k
Yourself
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Homonym creation by son dark terror
Dark sun templar strides empty
He was born in the sewers
Preaching to orphans
Selling them drugs
Crash landing Foreign Exchange
Export/Extract Blood/Money
Lawyer no habla ingles
Wife beating wincest victim/winner
Always liked the devil better
Jun 2013 · 314
this is one of my memories
rusty shacks Jun 2013
ʰᵉ ˢᵃᶤᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʰᵉ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵖᵘʳˢᵘᵉᵈˑ ᵃᶰᵍᵉʳ ᵉᵃᶜʰ ˢᵗᵒᶰᵉ˒ ʰᵉ ʷᶤˡˡ ᵈᵒˑ
ʰᵉ ˡᵒᵒᵏᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳʷᵃʳᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᵇᶤᵉˢ ʳᵉˡʸ ᵒᶰ ᵗʰᵉᶤʳ ᵒʷᶰˑ
ᶠᵉˡˡ ᵈᵒᵉˢᶰ'ᵗ ˢᵉᵉᵐ ᵗᵒ ᵏᶰᵒʷ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʰᵉ ˡᵉᶠᵗ ᵃ ᶠᵉʷ ᶠˡᵒʷᵉʳ ʷᵃˢᵖˢ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵍʳᵒᵘᶰᵈˑ
ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ᶤˢ ᵒᶰˡʸ ᵒᶰᵉˑ
ᶤ ˢᵖᵉᶰᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᶰᶤᵍʰᵗˑ ᶤ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ˢᵖᵉᶰᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᶰᶤᵍʰᵗ ᶤᶰ ᵗʰᵉᶤʳ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗˢˑ
ʰᵉ ˢᵃʸˢ ʰᵉ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᶤᵗˑ
ʰᵉ ᵍᵉᵗˢ ᵗᵒ ˡᵉᵃᵛᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵒᵘᶰᵗʳʸˑ ᶰᵒ˒ ʰᵉ ˢᵉᵉᵐˢ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ᵃᶰᵍʳʸ˒ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᶤ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ᶠᵒʳᵍᵒᵗᵗᵉᶰˑ
ᶤᵗ ᶤˢ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ʷᶤˢᵉˑ ᵗʰᶤˢ ᶤˢ ᶠᵒᵘᶰᵈ ᶤᶰ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵒᶜᵏˢˑ
Jun 2013 · 800
ev'rything
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Here's pain in iambic pentameter.
Iamb skill, like the lion that kills lambs.
'Cause I am Bill, not just an amateur.
I am will. And I will not give a ****.
.
Mem'ries beat on, hear it all on your feet.
Five metrical feet, heretical feats.
I'm not pent up with pain that I mete out,
Burdened with truths I'm trying to eke out.
.
That's five pairs of beats alive with the heat
Of pain on this tragic perimeter,
Until it leaves no memory of doubt.
This ain't pain? Why'd I write it down again?
.
Live through spasms with enthusiasm!
Bruise some atoms, throw some glue right at 'em!
Jun 2013 · 698
alphabet
rusty shacks Jun 2013
I have a plethora of empty et ceteras ahead of ya for getting you a head of yeahs. With this thick pen i spaz, repeat my jazz, ******, foobaz. Move through new class. U2 sweet lass or move it last. like molasses through the past without esses. Witout ss? Ooh, too fast? So we give r for morales, too, dad. You don't get it? Oh, too bad.
Jun 2013 · 502
ice - sickle
rusty shacks Jun 2013
I blink my eyes
a lot
when i talk to you,
because I want
to capture you
in crystallized perfection.
And I try
to forget that
ice melts.
Jun 2013 · 707
my most used words
rusty shacks Jun 2013
****   like   just   hate   life   times   coffee   regret   time   better   somebody   drugs   world   heart   thing   *******   need   know   home   little   ******   type   gone   break   trying   gave   morning   way   ****   chasing   birth   mean   war   laugh   make   look   beer   problems   untitled   scream   different   hiding   stay   putting   burnt   number   sea   looking   waves   good    pain    *****    dew    man    town    passion    demise    johnson   girls    lotion    emotion    head    perfect    *******    bed    far    interested    spirit    pure    anchor    potion   words    hope    boat    missing    streets    phlebus    train    free    red    inside    things    wake    lungs    holy   colors    insert    away    set    aren't    poem    soul    poets    self    god    diatribes    nights    politics    forests   demands
Jun 2013 · 565
honey sticky
rusty shacks Jun 2013
Stand before me, child
With fingers honey sticky and bird eyes
Wide upon seeing clouds dance with rainbows
Here we can wait for eternity to embrace ignorance
And justify our mechanical joints to our
Meaty minds.
Jun 2013 · 979
little anchor
rusty shacks Jun 2013
A little anchor
on a boat
is thrown aboard
for her to float
to survive the waves
the winds, the rains
through all the pain
so that when its calm
and the waves the same
back on the boat
he will remain
Apr 2013 · 575
red
rusty shacks Apr 2013
red
how could anyone’s
daughter
renounce these demons,
rip out the threads
of fate
sewn into her soul by
the reaper

i should
crawl into bed
with my hood over
my head
good little girl
hiding her ugly
face

how would you like
a little red,
chased down by a wolf
Apr 2013 · 1.1k
phlebus
rusty shacks Apr 2013
Well if you need something
wet to dip your pen into, try this:

Well your tongue's sails may
swell and lose and fumble and
stumble numbly tonguing gums for
words still unfound as i flounder
in this bloating sea like the
drowned Phoenician sailor Phlebus
who said that:

"pleasure
is easily
the conquerer"
Apr 2013 · 641
drunk on a train
rusty shacks Apr 2013
holy drunkard holy ***** both each other's foreign war standing on corner trances in hissing nights eager for heat like owls in flight glowing girls or paying guys - same mission, same song - the line propitiates and and the clerk hands me the ticket paper from automatic towers same train same stuck up strut lipstick **** on the rim of my glass and he and they will never notice me over there
i spent a lot of time drunk on trains
Apr 2013 · 693
fuck y'all
rusty shacks Apr 2013
******* and your interesting
social lives
that only exist
in whatever city you go to
school in

**** **** **** because forests aint that interestin'
and there's no McDonalds in the woods
and the deer have no plans
to get wasted with you this weekend
Apr 2013 · 476
Untitled
rusty shacks Apr 2013
sometimes, assumptions
and waking crazy for the dawn
is all i want
but all i have is leaden sunrise
with certainties and pining for celebrity

at least i still have windsweeping pines for the moment
gleaning poems from moments
reaping lines from the happenstance

given a chance
I'd jump off the track
for any number of trains
at any time at all
rusty shacks Apr 2013
Everyone and everything
changes except for me.
I stay the same Even when I change the view I
have of life from something true,
worth some great acclaim to something I'd like to
set aflame to a thing that exists to teach us pain
then wash away down
some final drain - strange enough -
I stay the same. I've dragged through
awkward teen ages chasing a promise I
made to myself that while life may seem gray
it will get better
and for some time i stopped to smell all the colors and
taste like I'm free only to grow up too fast
and entirely bypass the things this life
may have offered me
if i found
a better way
to ask.
Following a rush of blurred colors and thoughts I am
a concentrated clot of what some
would call life and I am still no better
than when I was a toddler
and all my problems could be solved by
chocolate milk and
warm summer weather.
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