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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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oc14 in idea barrages
1.) If the queen owned a Nintendo, would that make it the royal Wii? 2.) If you actually had, like in the Tom Waits song, a chocolate Jesus, wouldn’t that technically be heresy’s chocolate? 3.) ...
oc13 in idea barrages
1.) The past was terrible but the good news is everyone was used to it & just thought it normal. The now is terrible but the bad news is everyone’s used to it & just thinks it normal. The...
key word: donate, title: give life in misc. flash fiction
When Social Wellness Solutions introduced Give-Life to the world, it sounded miraculous. The idea you could transfer a piece of your lifespan to someone else was revolutionary and, just like any ...
oc12 in idea barrages
1.) I see… I see… I see a loss of a small amount of money in your future. That’ll be twenty dollars. 2.) …how was there never a GOOD EATS episode called “Stock Footage”? 3.) It’s a shame “comorb...
oc11 in idea barrages
1.) Yeah, I was singing “Hold Me Closer Tiny Panther” to the cat, what of it? 2.) If the characters in your sci-fi film can all talk due to injections of translator microbes, does that mean they ...
the kansas inside the all of us in poetry
the tornado isn’t you but it is a part of you the tornado inside you can drive you forward, yes, but the tornado can also rip you apart from your heart on out rend you from your deepest...
the phantom limb in poetry
it’s been so dark for months now I should guess right around nine may as well be down in Plato’s Cave waiting upon the prodigal sunshine but not even a groundhog’s s...
you will never become you you will never become yourself your essence is not a static beginning or end your truest self is a never-ending process of becoming you stop bei...
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...
