More Henry Rollins

Here are some poems and other stuff from and about Henry Rollins

Taken from: See a Grown Man Cry

Now Watch Him Die

Tired dog’s legs running

Treadmill

Endless life

Shovelful after shovelful into the hole

Grey day

Weak struggle ahead

Dirty air

Breathing in orders

Half dead fish, hole in its lung from the hook

Slaps its tail against the floor of the boat

Cold eyes staring through and past

Nightmares in the head, hate in the eyes

Long way down

Falling short

Falling in love

Falling asleep

Faling in line

Falling into the hole for good reason

For no reason

For real

Forever

Bullshit

Bull’s eye

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I’m hot

I’m heat

It’s hot out tonight because I’m alive

Breathe in the smell of your body

Other bodies

The heat makes me want to destroy myself

Makes me want you

Catch fire like a disease

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I got thrown into a fierce fire

I found myself in a place that you had lost a hold of

I got a grip where you lost yours

I have a calming hand in the middle of a storm

I inhale the sun

I exhale the total absence of light

I am the number One

Burning

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She is untouchable

I wrap my arms around her and I find myself alone

She is alien

I try to understand her and I start to lose my mind

She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen

I destroy myself when I am with her

I leave all my blood at her feet

Dreams of her rip through my head like bullets

Looking at her makes me want to rip my eyes out

She is a hollow space that cannot be filled

I have emptied myself out and caved in

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The answer to my hunger is starvation

The answer to my self doubt is action

I smash hope with confrontation

Confidence is a guess

I’m here and we’ll see if I fall or not

At the end of all of this we’ll know the truth

The gun isn’t loaded until all the bullets have been fired

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I don’t love you

I did for a few minutes but even then

It was just me loving myself with your body

I do that sometimes

So do you

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My thoughts turn into blades

I cut myself on myself

I work hard to protect myself from my self destructive nature

Sometimes I think that I only maintain myself

So I’ll have something to kick very hard

My thoughts turn on my thoughts

I eat myself alive

I vomit myself into myself

I make myself sick

Someitmes I think that I could rupture all my blood cells

By thinking the wrong thing

It’s a god thing I have a sort attention span

It allows me to forget myself from time to time

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Let’s do a song about the girl in college who fucked the frat boy and got knocked up. The one who died screaming and convulsing in her room from septic infection from the abortion.

About the kid from Nebraska who went to Vietnam and watched his guts cool on his legs before he died a virgin in the jungle.

About the girl who has been in a mental institution for nine years and has been stuck with needles so many times she thinks she’s a messenger from god to take the word’s pain on her shoulders.

About the man on Death Row who has not touched a woman for fifteen years.

About the boy who was made to fuck his mother while his father watched.

About the man who came home from work to find that his wife had cut their infant son in half and shot herself in the head.

About the mother who was too high on junk to see that her baby had fallen down the side of the bed and smothered to death.

About the boy who was beaten regularly by his father an is afraid to tell anyone because he fears the fucker will kill him.

About the rich kid who fucked the girl, killed her and got away with it.

About the woman who threw her baby into a dumpster and when she heard the sound of the child’s skull hitting the iron floor she ran away screaming and vomiting.

Let’s sing

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Touch me

Kick me

Make me crawl

Do something

Make me see that I’m alive

I need it bad

I feel dead

Stick something sharp into my flesh

Rip the lids off my eyes

Make me see

Torch me

My burning body will light up the night sky

It will make the sun jealous

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Alone looking for the quickest way to get to pain

I am my soul smasher love call death trip

I slashed my wrists of Destiny and took total control

I watch the night strangle the sun

Hail night

Darkness, my brother.

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