"Did I make you cry On Christmas day? Did I let you down Like every other day? Did I make you cry On Christmas day? Did I let you down On Christmas day? . . . I stay awake at night After we have a fight I'm writing poems about you And they aren't very nice."

"Planes will crash, He'll never let you down. So maybe there's a crash coming for the ground, Seek His face, He'll never let you down. Worship grace, He'll never let you down."

"Fuck me, I'm falling apart"

"There's only a shadow of me In a manner of speaking, I'm dead"

"I love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head."

"I am a man with a heart that offends with its lonely and greedy demands."

"Should I tear my eyes out now? Everything I see returns to you somehow Should I tear my heart out now? Everything I feel returns to you somehow"

"Well you do enough talk My little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you learn From the Tillamook burn Or the Fourth of July? We're all gonna die"

"What's left is only bittersweet For the rest of my life, admitting the best is behind me Now I'm drunk and afraid Wishing the world would go away What's the point of singing songs If they'll never even hear you?"

"Some part of me was lost in your sleeve Where you hid your cigarettes"

"Found myself on Spencer's Butte Traced your shadow with my shoe Empty outline changed my view Now all of me thinks less of you"

"When I was three Three, maybe four She left us at that video store"

"I forgive you mother; I can hear you And I long to be near you But every road leads to an end"

"Somewhere in the desert, there's a forest And an acre before us But I don't know where to begin"

"Ah, ah, Beautiful is the mother. Ah, ah, Beautiful is her son."

"I'm not fucking around."

"I want it all, I want it all for myself."

"I know I've caused you trouble, I know I've caused you pain. But I must do the right thing; I must do myself a favour And get real, get right with the Lord."

"Somewhere I lost whatever else I had."

"At least I deserve the respect of a kiss goodbye."

"When I die, when I die, I'll rot. But when I live, but when I live, I'll give it all I've got."

"Words are futile devices."

""It's been a long long time since I've memorized your face."

"Thinking Outrageously, I Write in Cursive"

"Oh, I am not quite sleeping. Oh, I am fast in bed."

"All the glory when He took our place, But He took my shoulders and He shook my face, And He takes and He takes and He takes."

"In the morning when you finally go And the nurse runs in with her head hung low, And the cardinal hits the window. In the morning in the winter shade, On the first of March, on the holiday, I thought I saw you breathing."

"Tuesday morning at the Bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens"

"But in my best behavior, I am really just like him Look beneath the floorboards, for the secrets I have hid."

"He dressed up like a clown for them With his face paint white and red. And on his best behavior In a dark room on the bed, He kissed them all."

"Oh, great intentions, Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience? I think about it now Oh, God of Progress, Have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your laws gone?"

"You gave your body to the lonely, They took your clothes. You gave up a wife and a family You gave your ghost. To be alone with me. To be alone with me You went up on a tree. I've never met a man who loved me."

"Rest in my arms Sleep in my bed There's a design To what I did and said"

"Once when we moved away, She came to Romulus for a day. Her Chevrolet broke down. We prayed it'd never be fixed or be found."

"These rappers are like Hunger Games: one minute, they're mockin' Jay (Mockingjay) Next minute, they get their style from Migos or they copy Drake"

"Hey, Em! You know you're my favorite white boy, right? I owe you for this one."

"Kept my ear to the streets Signed Eminem, he's triple platinum, doing fifty a week"

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already—Mom's spaghetti"

"Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment—would you capture it, or just let it slip?"

"See, I'm a poet to some, a regular modern-day Shakespeare Jesus Christ, the king of these Latter-day Saints here To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me as A monger of hate, satanist, scatter-brained atheist […] While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer"

"Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish"

"I will not ever perform in Poland, I'm still having bad memories due to Polish people in my city. I think that Poland shouldn't exist on the map, If I were Hitler, Poles would be killed at first, after them Jews."

"Bitch, I ain't no fucking G, I'm a cannibal! I ain't trying to shoot you, I'm trying to chop you into pieces and eat you!"

"Okay, I'm done, I already came twice. You ain't gonna make me cum. I'm all outta gas, not so fast. Uh, your finger just went in my ass. Ow, that hurts, take it out now. Oh, wait a minute, aw. Put it back in, in, in, in. This don't mean I'm gay, I don't like men. I like boobs, boobs, boobs."

"Shove a gerbil in your ass through a tube!"

"My brain's gone, my soul's worn, my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein' operated on"