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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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the big if in poetry
if there is a God and if I get a face-to-face with Her or Him though I’d have harsh words for such a Thing dress down God for the horrors of this world this life, the cruelties that Go...
oc10 in idea barrages
1.) Can you imagine having a masculinity so fragile that you have to call your entertainment room your “man cave”? Jesusing Christ. 2.) How don’t we have an anime version of Little Orphan Annie c...
doubt as the last defense in poetry
living with the deadly serious consequences of a deeply unserious time sociopaths believe everyone is a sociopath and that empathy is just something people pretend at to get things more easily,...
oc9 in idea barrages
1.) If there is a God and I get a face-to-face with Her or Him, though I’d have harsh words for such a Thing, I would thank God for music nonetheless. Without music, this whole enterprise would b...
oc8 in idea barrages
1.) It isn’t just that the perfect’s the enemy of the good, the perfect’s the trump card evil always has over the good, always able to trick well-intended idealists into doing evil’s work for the...
oc7 in idea barrages
1.) The near-flavorlessness of La Croix was the by-product in a failed attempt to prove homeopathic “water memory” pseudoscience. 2.) Maybe if I ever finish the Frank Yetti project to my satisfac...
oc6 in idea barrages
1.) Sometimes I just like to imagine taking ad slogans to their logical extension like “THE ENJOYMENT OF SARA LEE IS MANDATORY!” or “SHE WAS NOT BORN WITH IT, MAYBELLINE IS THE ONLY PATH TO BEAUT...
oct5 in idea barrages
1.) At least Mr. Burns has the old-fashioned gumption to live in the same town as his victims, not some Bentonville bunker or Mountain View mansion. 2.) Maybe Trump’s tweets are so incoherent bec...
flinching won't help in poetry
black rags worn in mourning red flags flown in warning that forgotten arm laid you flat-out in the ring and stole away your love or the phantom ripcord with the broken stri...
the podcast I'm a part of in life stuff and misc.
One of my short stories is in the first episode. Check it out.
oc4 in idea barrages
1.) I feel like I’ve been falling through the sky for the better part of a year now, I guess, if that makes any sense. Every once in a while I reach for a ripcord like a phantom limb but no parac...
oc3 in idea barrages
1.) Is a double Flying V guitar a Flying W? 2.) I don’t know if life is so much about changing as it is figuring out which parts of yourself you want to let take the wheel. 3.) If it’s the truth...
theme: prospect, title: the best in misc. flash fiction
What if I told you this life, this life that you’re living right now, is the best life you ever could’ve lived? More to the point, what if I told you that you’re doing the most good you ever coul...
palliative care in poetry
a nation addicted to bad-faith outrage opiates subscribed by the A.M. talk-radio spin doctors now simply strung-out straight on the hard stuff black-tar Trumpism injected straight into ...
Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How would our most favorite celebrities tell us what to be mad about this week? How would we get a minute-by-mi...
every day steal a single brick from out a needless wall every day put a brick into a bridge that needs building every day you’ve got a good shot at changing the world every day it’ll se...
oc2 in idea barrages
1.) Tomorrow, convince at least one person that “Bon Iver!” is how you say “good afternoon” in French. 2.) I either feel like Superman about to fly or the Coyote about to look down and realize he...
key word: testament, title: now you know in misc. flash fiction
You can always go back there, you know. To the place and time it feels like it all went wrong or, anyway, where it feels like it could’ve all gone right but didn’t. That moment you’ve dwelt upon ...
oc1 in idea barrages
1.) In the background of the HOLMES AND WATSON trailer, if you listen closely you can hear 75 studio executives writing e-mails, feverishly trying to get someone else to take the fall. 2.) Let’s ...
september capstone in idea barrages
1.) If one of our union-busting middle-class-killing gig-economy-scam scab-cab horror shows has to be called “Lyft” I hope there’s at least one in England called “Elyvtr”. 2.) The least likeable ...
se29 in idea barrages
1.) StayCircles seems to be the new LinkedIn of junk e-mail. 2.) Hot dogs may just be snouts and tails but at least they’re putting in an effort to make ends meat. 3.) Cathy Mitchell would stuff...
se28 in idea barrages
1.) Having white men in power to defend their racism and sexism means more than anything to these people, it is their only end game, there was never any other cogent ideology. They knew their Sup...
se27 in idea barrages
1.) Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How could our favourite celebrities tell us what to be mad about? How would we get a minute-by-minute telling ...
se26 in idea barrages
1.) I am gonna be so happy when this false president all turns out to be an ARG publicity stunt to promote an iPhone VR game about an impossibly bad dystopian future. 2.) The problem is the born-...
se25 in idea barrages
1.) I can hear Morrissey, I can smell clove cigarettes but I don’t see anyone… it must be Invisigoths! 2.) You know, they probably could’ve gotten away with admitting Soylent Green was people if ...
