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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