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I write words, I sometimes get to perform them out, sometimes I'm even paid. And I'm trying to get it right, get it right.
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key word: palpable, title: you better watch out in misc. flash fiction
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus but it’s a little bit more complicated than just that. There are countless Santas out there, depending how you define an individual. Santa is a sort of hive-...
janu16 in idea barrages
1.) After every Jurassic Park movie, there’s a spike in baby dinosaur adoptions because they’re just so cute and within a year, most of them get abandoned in the forest. When you drop a dinosaur,...
janu15 in idea barrages
1.) The Star Wars premise of “ain’t gonna work on Beru’s farm no more” functions for either a Dylan parody OR a Rage parody. 2.) These evangelical born-agains don’t follow Jesus’ path, they follo...
janu14 in idea barrages
1.) I often say that there should be a chef-themed metal band called ROLLING BOIL but only today did I realize the lead singer should go by the stage name “Gorgon Ramsay”. 2.) A hack of TOMB RAID...
janu13 in idea barrages
1.) You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, you can even pick your friends’ nose (if that’s what everyone’s into) but you can’t pick your friends’ battles. Focus on picking your own. A...
janu12 in idea barrages
1.) Don’t have heroes, have influences. Heroes tend to crush you when you find out how much of their public image is a sham. Influences are fluid, changeable, negotiable. It goes without saying t...
janu11 in idea barrages
1.) It started by telling you that a black politician couldn’t possibly be American and then by telling you that a woman who can lead must somehow be a fraud. When they tell you who they are, lis...
mirage-a-trois in poetry
as long as you keep navigating by the mirage of perfection that stays at the horizon no matter how fast you can run you are never going to get to the good stuff that is actually here to be fou...
the townperson's lament in poetry
stop smashing all my pots, Link what are you hoping to accomplish? stop smashing all my pots, Link they were very expensive stop smashing all my pots, Link what does smashing my pots up hav...
cause and effect in poetry
yes, a single flap of a butterfly’s wing can down a chain of causal dominoes trigger off a hurricane a continent away but that’s not why the butterfly flaps any triggering of butterfly effect...
the pragmatic bleeding-heart manifesto in poetry
you don’t plant a seed only because you think you’ll live to see it in full bloom or because you think that your grandchildren will do the same if you think those are the reasons why a...
janu10 in idea barrages
1.) No no, it’s not a Cloak of Invisibility, it’s an Invisible Cloak. It won’t make you invisible but it will make you slightly warmer than your enemies suspect. 2.) Fraternity legends speak of t...
janu9 in idea barrages
1.) This week in “Terrible Pharma Ads On Facebook Where The Generic Name Sounds Like An NPR On-Air Talent” is CHANTIX (varenicline). “For Marketplace, I’m Varen Icline.” 2.) Curiously, the plural...
janu8 in idea barrages
1.) Before the rats leave a sinking ship, they are known to cause quite the commotion. 2.) I just wanna know what Dante’s Disco Inferno would look like. 3.) Today’s song for the dog is to the tu...
janu7 in idea barrages
1.) The cops almost caught the Victoria’s Secret shoplifting bandit but in the end, he gave them the slip. 2.) No, the nerdiest thing I could ever write would be a parody of Ozzy’s “Mama I’m Comi...
janu6 in idea barrages
1.) Captain Kirk time-travels into a Target in 2019 and is suddenly very sad, assuming the entire staff is about to die on the next away mission. 2.) Every time you get a receipt from CVS, an acr...
janu5 in idea barrages
1.) The Old Milwaukee ban at the Utica Human Pong match would reek of “desperate P.R. stunt to remind us we have a Human Pong team” except that the reek of the Utica Club is covering up that smel...
the god and I in poetry
hope kept fair and kind by compassion kept humane and honest by compassion kept grounded to earth by compassion compassion renewed when exhausted by hope illuminated in winter darkne...
I have got a calendar full of therapy appointments and open mic night reminders as if there is a difference as if there is a difference between those two kinds of things
janu4 in idea barrages
1.) If you want to kill the author, you also have to kill the context you bring to the work yourself. Good luck with that. So too with the text of reality, a possible supernatural’s intent & ...
theme word: cloudy, title: a very normal life in misc. flash fiction
(yeah, I know this is an adaptation of a recent poem of mine but that’s what “cloudy” called to) Once, there was a very normal boy and his very normal name was Norman Leroy, so normal he was born...
jan3 in idea barrages
1.) If we must be put into identity boxes, at least don’t just be in one. Have fifty or seventy things about you that are all co-equal so when they try to lock you down in one box, you can just h...
january bare in poetry
angels guarding wings of argent hearts so ardent winter never came the snow fell then melted right away without our months under its blanket for wounds to heal for autumn leav...
january 2 - mega idea barrage in idea barrages
1.) Part man, part wind instrument, all cop. OBOECOP. 2.) I’ve always found it interesting how people are all like “the original gray Hulk was supposed to look like the movie version of Frankenst...
a very normal afterlife in poetry
once, there was a very normal boy so normal he was born in Normal, Illinois he was born at a very normal time Monday afternoon at half-past-five and he was normal ev...
