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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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starwars day in idea barrages
1.) If you turn a pair of Converses inside-out are they now a pair of Contrapositives? 2.) When law is just a mechanism to justify, to codify hate and fear, discard it. When law is a mechanism to...
being there in poetry
evolution is just the aggregation of mistakes that turn out to be beneficial until so many of them pile up at once and you have something new despite yourself make all of the mistakes, a...
keyword "nimble" title "goodnight earth" in misc. flash fiction
“Gramma,” Jasmine asked, “one more tonight?” “All right,” her grandma pretended to chide but was happy to oblige, “one more then your mom says you must sleep for school tomorrow.” “Oh-kaaay,” the...
what you don’t know can, of course, hurt you what you don’t know will still hurt like hell it will devastate you, it will ruin you but what you don’t know can only hurt you blessedly...
half-and-half in poetry
half the trick to making art is failing at everything else first backing yourself so far into the corner of unhireability so that you have to pour your whole life into art ...
ma3 in idea barrages
1.) Evolution is just the aggregation of mistakes that turn out to be beneficial until you have something new. Make all the mistakes. Sort out what works at the end. Work it out. Evolve. 2.) In t...
after the gold rush in poetry
here we are at the fall of Rome the gate-barbarians strictly our own privileged classes swelling with hate tearing us down with demands for more fences and an end to all gates beca...
oneupsmanship in poetry
god tried to kill me with dog piss three am stumbling toward the bathroom linoleum slicked with canine anxiety trying to set me up for the slow and lonely humiliating demise that would fit ...
the “freedom” of being single is the same kind of “freedom” your bones get to have when there’s no skin or muscle or sinew to hold them together they’re free but motionless dea...
ma2 in idea barrages
1.) 83% of the names of summer camps in bad comedies are essentially “Camp LazyRacistJoke”. 2.) When people say “oh, people in (oppressed group) just like to pretend they’re offended to get atten...
mayday in idea barrages
1.) How can I write the sweet little story I have half-finished on my laptop for Wednesday in this bitter rain, in this crumbling nation, in this unfocused lonely mournful mood? It sits there wai...
apr capstone in idea barrages
1.) Elton John’s seafood restaurant should be called THE BISQUE IS BACK. 2.) You CAN explore other cultures as an influence in your own art but it takes a light touch. It’s called “cultural appro...
apr29 in idea barrages
1.) It’s not about how good you are at the beginning, in baseball or in life. They’re going to make adjustments to cancel out your strengths once they get a closer look at you. If and how you’re ...
key word "epiphany" title "cold comfort" in misc. flash fiction
The machine did its job, for better and for worse, it froze me in 1998 and I woke up twenty years later. My closest family dead, my last relationship a shamble, a cryogenics experiment seemed a d...
apr28 in idea barrages
1.) Godzilla caught wind of the locovore movement and started to eat only trains. 2.) You don’t get to be a billionaire doing good things. Maybe you can get to be a billionaire while walling your...
apr27 in idea barrages
1.) Dear Richard Spencer lookin’ douchebag race-car driver in the Honda ad on SNY, if you have to tell us you’re a “famous race-car driver”, you aren’t a famous race-car driver. Oh, you may well ...
keyword "eyelashes" title "the price of progress" in misc. flash fiction
In the development of the NSA’s dur-a-sim android series, as body doubles, spies and assassins when the use of a human agent was uncalled for, the sticking point near the end of the process was o...
keyword "feed" title "big fish, little pond" in misc. flash fiction
Henry David Thoreau wrote about the thrills of splendid isolation in the vastness of his New England wilderness in a cabin a mile-and-a-half from town, where he could walk back to the family home...
I can’t wait forever. I can’t, wait forever! I can’t wait, Forever! I can’t wait forever. I can’t wait much longer I’m aching and lonely and broken inside I can’t wait much...
apr26 in idea barrages
1.) Professional wrestling is a series of conflicts… of interest! 2.) If you get together at a cafe to make fun of a charlatan who pretends to talk from the dead so as to exploit the grieving, yo...
In east Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset and Gower, there’s a strip-mall called Gower Gulch. Not everything is glamorous there, of course, most of the people are just trying to get by, not tryi...
apr25 in idea barrages
1.) An Alanis parody built around the line “THERE’S A SHOPP-ING LIST IN MY POCKET AND IT’S WHAT I’M GONNA USE FOR MY LYRICS”. 2.) If your ear falls off, is that deaf leprosy? 3.) It’s a giant vir...
keyword "heart" title "waiting for god" in misc. flash fiction
When Andre Roussimoff’s eyes opened again, he was in the back of a truck in the fields of France, just like when he was young, even though even then he had not been small. He’d been Andre The Gia...
“Dead skin flakes,” she exclaimed, out of nowhere, as she were shouting her last words from a nightmare upon waking, “the answer’s dead skin flakes!” “The answer to what?” “The answer to the end ...
apr24 in idea barrages
1.) We need Superman to show up to help the Mueller investigation so we can call this a Constitutional Crisis On Infinite Earths. 2.) She claimed she was working on her addiction to Beanie Babies...
