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The first few lines appear in Issue One and the last
few lines are in Issue Two, but here's a chance to read
Shane Allison's poem in its thuggish entirety.

 

Ruggish Thug

Shane Allison

Thug

I want a thug

A thug is what I… want

Rugged

I want a rugged thug

I want him to be ruggish

I want a ruggish rugged thug

A thuggish rugged thug

I want a thuggish ruggish rugged thug

Yes, that is what I want

Yes, that is it, a thuggish rugged rugged thug

Is what I want

Can you hear me

Can you hear me out there

I said can you hear me

What I want is a Brooklyn thug

What I need is a thuggish rugged Brooklyn thug

What I need

What I want

What I really need right now is a thuggish ruggish rugged thug

From Brooklyn

Brooklyn is where I want him from

From Brooklyn

I’m gonna get me one

I’m gonna get a Brooklyn thug who is rugged and ruggish

A Brooklyn thug who is rugged and ruggish and thuggish

Thuggish

So damn thuggish

So Goddamn thuggish

A thuggish rugged ruggish thug from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn damn it!

A Brooklyn ruggish thug on a rugged rug

I want me a ruggish Brooklyn thug on a rugged rug

I want a slouchy sloppy thug

A sloppy slouchy slouchy sloppy sloppety slouch

Of a thug who is ruggish and rugged on a rugged rug

A rugged rugged rug of a thug from Brooklyn is what I need

Are you getting this

Are you getting this

Get this down

Take this down

Take this all down, now

Cuz I don’t want to have to repeat myself

You know, repeat myself

I don’t want to have to repeat myself

Thug

Rugged

I want him to be ruggish, thuggish and as rugged as a rug

He’s gotta be more rugged than a… than a… Brooklyn rug

Rugged than a Brooklyn rug in Brooklyn

I’m not joking

This is not a joke. So why are you laughing

I’m serious

I’m so serious

I am so damn serious about my ruggish Brooklyn-rugged rug thug

Damn I’m serious

But that’s it

That is it

That is what I want

Brooklyn, a Brooklyn kinda thug

ruggish rugged ruggish thug from Brooklyn

how clear can I be

can I be clear how can I be

can be I how

cans bees how’s and I’s.

I want a rugged ruggish Brooklyn thug on my rug

On my rug I want him

He’s going to be so rugged, so thuggish

Damn so thick and thuggish

Thick and ruggedly thuggish

Thuggedly thuggish from Brooklyn

Thug

Such a thug

So ruggishly rugged

So thuggishly thugged

So ruggishly thugged like a rug

A Brooklyn rug

My thuggedly thuggishly Brooklyn boy

Naked on a Brooklyn rug

He is naked in his thugness on a naked rug

Naked in a rugged ruggish Brooklyn rug with so much…

With so much thugness

So much damn thugness

 

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