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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.
with enough repetition, your flaws become your style
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no9 in idea barrages
1.) Current song I sing to Ollie the dog: a version of Eleanor Rigby called “Oliver Fatty”. 2.) Distance from information on the instant is a rare and precious commodity these days. 3.) Call you...
they say the devil’s at the crossroads they say that God will stop at city’s edge they say the headless horseman stops after the bridge that all the code is hidden in the the crosswords the t...
papertrail in poetry
there is no more reinvention now no more evolution or rebirth now social media has seen to that whoever you were at twelve is who you’re stuck with being the electric receipts of your e...
in mourning, time loses meaning or at least time’s passage does holidays become mere changes in the front window’s decorations seasons become mere changes in the patterns of the ...
no8 in idea barrages
1.) Low-carb “pizza” snack: pepperoni sticks, string cheese, low-sodium V8. This is my life now. 2.) We’ve whittled down the American dream to “not dying homeless”. It’s a hell of a thing and it ...
no7 in idea barrages
1.) Low-Carb Lifestyle Lifehack: frizzled onions don’t just have to go on green bean cassarole. Eat ‘em like chips, if you’re desperate enough! 2.) Tomorrow: the last day of calls and texts by po...
no6 in idea barrages
1.) One of the secret ingredients in Gandalf’s pipe-weed blend is elvish parsley. 2.) People these days will get all hot and bothered over sexy Draculas or sexy Wolfmen but almost no one will put...
nov5 in idea barrages
1.) Freudy Krueger… he’ll analyze your dreams TO DEATH. 2.) I’m just a somewhat fat guy, looking into a mirror and singing “GET UP, c’mon GET DOWN WITH MY THICKNESS, GET UP c’mon GET DOWN WITH MY...
Mark Twain once said “if you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes” or maybe he didn’t. Maybe someone said it first but because he was famous it was remembered as his alo...
ditmars station in poetry
I have no way with which to describe how much I’d rather be in Astoria breathing city air and feeling alive telling tales of back here while in Astoria make like William Outerboroughs...
nov4 in idea barrages
1.) Why billionaires waste their fortunes on political grudges instead of, like, paying to have the Dudley Moore film ARTHUR remade with the characters from the PBS kids show ARTHUR is beyond me....
no3 in idea barrages
1.) I wonder how many people tried smoking actual bath salts when they heard of drugs colloquially called “bath salts” and I wonder how it worked out for them. 2.) Sometimes I think Ollie doesn’t...
no2 in idea barrages
1.) In mourning, time loses meaning or at least its passage does. Holidays become mere changes in the decoration, seasons become mere changes in the weather. Mourning is an alternately sorrowful ...
the only constant in poetry
the cities rose and fell as did the seas the only constant being all the people they all had different languages they all had different faiths they all had different technologies but th...
and to hold in poetry
if you think this life is about finding or having or holding or winning or being in charge or being the best or having power holy Christ, are you going to be disappointed you...
impractical magic in poetry
it’s important to process Halloween as a burlesque of death’s power as a fool’s day against the end our only small power at all in the face of this oblivion is the solace of lau...
no1 in idea barrages
1.) If you must make a movie about a serial killer at a ren faire, the only acceptable title is THE TEXAS CHAINMAIL MASSACRE. 2.) Your film about a ghost taking over a cop’s body to solve its own...
oc31 in idea barrages
1.) One of the fundamental moves in Red Square Dancing is the do-si-dosvedanya. “Now take your comrade, do-si-dosvedanya and then pravdanade!” 2.) Sometimes I feel like a boxfan set in opposition...
oc30 in idea barrages
1.) If you post a lot of selfies to instagram because you’re insecure, is that instacurity? 2.) I’ve been singing the Fox Sports fanfare to Ollie “Litt-le DOG, Litt-le DOGGG, Litt-le DOG, Litt-le...
keyword: passage, title: between firmament and stars in misc. flash fiction
I’m no longer afraid of flying. Oh, it all still bothers me, the empty security theater, the seats designed for humans a foot shorter, the bleary soft-shoe shuffles in passage between flights, th...
oc29 in idea barrages
1.) The worst cars, however, get awards from J.D. Weakness. 2.) If the aliens turn out to look like watermelons, I don’t wanna be anywhere near Gallagher the day of first contact. Or, at least, I...
oc28 in idea barrages
1.) Those commercials that pretend to end and then come back three or four times are probably effective the first time but after that, they are almost impossibly grating. 2.) McEshers! Where the ...
oc27 in idea barrages
1.) I like to believe that the ghosts in Pac-Man are the ghosts of the previously dead Pac-Men and it’s all a metaphor for… something. 2.) Twitter’s toy store is called “LMFAO Schwarz”. 3.) The ...
oc26 in idea barrages
1.) Joe Buck pronounces the title of the new Harry Potter movie like he is about to puke saying it. 2.) Sometimes you lose faith. Sometimes you say “there is no way reality-competition shows coul...
oc25 in idea barrages
1.) REAL TALK: the third Stooge was always the same character, he was just a timelord that regenerated between Curly/Shemp/Curly Joe/etc. 2.) Your band that covers terrible late 90s/early 00s rap...
