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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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split attentions in poetry
during the rise and reign of even the worst dictators and monsters people still gotta eat people still gotta sleep we still have birthdays and jobs still have sex, still watch teevee stil...
mar29 in idea barrages
1.) Look, I agree with Sanders on about 90% percent of things but is there anything more tone-deaf than saying “hey, let’s run an 80 year old white guy out there in 2020 whose followers allowed V...
mar28 in idea barrages
1.) The Little Dutch Boy really thought he could stop the flood, the dam fool. 2.) A version of the Fantastic Four where instead its The Velvet Underground that gets the powers instead, just for ...
mar27 in idea barrages
2.) Before you mourn the passing of an “old economy” business for reasons of changing markets, research if it was actually just debt-riddled by the leveraged buy-out by a vulture capitalist holdi...
don't that beat all in poetry
on the day we got my father’s ashes the company that killed him declared bankruptcy a munitions factory that had held the region hostages for years extracting wage and benefit cuts an...
mar26 in idea barrages
1.) When all you’ve got to smear the March For Our Lives kids with is to intentionally pretend you’re confusing the solidarity fist with the Nazi salute, what you are saying is “I admit my argume...
let the kids live (for alan) in poetry
what it all comes down to is we’re only a few thousand years out of the caves we are only a few thousand years out of the trees all of us, from the veld of the great rift va...
mar25 in idea barrages
1.) Make the world’s trendiest new craft beer by just mixing a half pound of dried hops into a pint of rubbing alcohol. 2.) Psychic visions of your future Twitter timeline are called “premoji”. 3...
mar24 in idea barrages
1.) I will never get over the decades of conservatives yelling about hating the “coastal elites” and then throwing all their chips behind a living collection of stereotypes of a rich guy from New...
mar23 in idea barrages
1.) Sometimes I look at the infomerical “star” Chef Tony and wonder if he is the product of a failed attempt at cloning Jesse “The Body” Ventura, rendering the clone much nicer but just as crazy ...
theme word "playing" title "apocalypse then" in misc. flash fiction
When the zombies finally arrived, it turned out the movies got a few things right and a lot more wrong. Yes, zombies are the animated dead and yes, they crave the flesh of the living but beyond t...
mar22 in idea barrages
1.) If someone named Suzanne started a gluten-free bakery, it could be “Sue’s Pseudo-Dough” and Phil Collins would have to write its jingle. 2.) I’m sorry your parents were murdered after a scree...
mar21 in idea barrages
1.) Apathy is funda-MEH-tal. 2.) It seems like the monsters are the ones who always push a “when you fight monsters, you become them” narrative to try & stop you from fighting monsters. FIGHT...
humane nature in poetry
hatred and greed are not wired into the human condition it just seems like that because we recursively create that system when I was a little boy I thought the malls were always just there...
under the table and making fun of you in poetry
you have no idea how much we wanted to follow that SUV until it stopped what with the dented-in bumper and all the Dave Matthews Band stickers on the back we just want to confront them and ...
mar20 in idea barrages
1.) I am reasonably certain that these Windows 10 updates don’t change anything, just prompt your computer to try and sell you on Microsoft Edge like no one in the world wants, yet again. 2.) Com...
word splay in poetry
we can’t just keep on going over how the whole thing’s going under it’s been going around for far too long what we’ve all been going through with our income on the outs with the most concre...
instead of saint peter in poetry
is there a patron saint of truckstops? does someone stand for the in-betweens protecting the liminal places both seen and those unseen who watched us at the crossroads other than the devil’...
mar19 in idea barrages
1.) It’s no coincidence the fake president rose to fame buying casinos with his inheritance & hosting sham gameshows. People like Trump or Putin or Hitler, they only win because they cheat, b...
mar17 in idea barrages
1.) I still say you could’ve cleaned up with a Scotland-themed tag-team of wrestlers called Natural Born Kilters. 2.) The rabbit hoped it could hide down in that hole forever but it was living on...
theme word "future" title "what the future may hold" in misc. flash fiction
My father met a lot of people for a man who never lived anywhere other than Little Falls. Dad possessed more than one lifetime’s worth of stories and he told the hell out of them. He assumed, for...
stone cold barrage in idea barrages
1.) You could mash-up YOU’RE SO VAIN and YEAR OF THE CAT so seamlessly, you’d just think it was one or the other. 2.) There are probably better ways to promote your salon than advertising “perm s...
area code barrage in idea barrages
1.) I love how the news is trying to scare folk like “Juuling!” is a new thing sweeping the nation. “ARE YOUR KIDS JUULING?” When it’s, like, a slightly stronger form of the vaping everyone’s bee...
pi day in idea barrages
1.) They’re trying to say they’re alt-punctuation but we all know they’re just the same old grammar Nazis. 2.) I would give a show starring Mindy Kaling and Bjork called “Bjork and Mindy” a chanc...
mar13 in idea barrages
1.) You could do worse than rewriting classic rock into socialist manifestos and performing as Red Zeppelin, I s’pose. 2.) As long as Trump enforces the GOP leadership’s vulture capitalism disman...
