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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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all this awful winter snow just like life seems like a tedious hassle to be endured dealt with, cursed, dug out from beneath mocked or hated, maybe at best tolerated until that...
relativity in poetry
it feels like I’m doin’ time it feels like I’m due in time feels like I’m dew on the vine it’s time to step off the podium it’s time to jump off the cross admit ...
control is an illusion total control is anyway maybe you have a hand on the wheel but the road itself is always at heel there’s always how the others feel there’s always an element of dumb...
what I mean to say in poetry
you can’t just write for yourself but you can’t just write for other people either you gotta write about the things inside you everyone else feels too but think they are alone that connection, ...
fe22 in idea barrages
1.) Just because the lines on a map are useful in a transitory way, that doesn’t make them real. Most of the things the lines represent are made up too. The roads and the buildings exist, of cour...
fe21 in idea barrages
1.) I await the day when Nightvale uses Built To Spill’s “The Weather” as The Weather. 2.) Whenever someone on Twitter uses the hashtag #MUA for a make-up artist, my brain first thinks they’re on...
fe19 in idea barrages
1.) The snow, like life, seems like a tedious hassle to be endured until you stand back, take a breath, clear your head and let yourself see how goddamned beautiful it is. 2.) feels like I’m doin...
masks down in poetry
the bastards may have you buffaloed may have you worrying on what’s possible what’s in line with your ideological tribe may have you confused upon what’s even real but none...
someday we'll sleep again in poetry
the bad news is that the pain will probably never get any less when you love someone that much when they’re that much a part of you it probably never stop hurting it’ll probably never even ...
past belief in poetry
don’t let nobody else in the world make you old no one else’s stern words or opinions no one’s jobs or expectations of you nobody’s laws ideas or mythologies either none of these things can ...
fe18 in idea barrages
1.) Defending AR-15 ownership by saying “well, you CAN hunt with them!” is as asinine as saying you should get to own a nuke because you CAN hunt with them. If you’re such a tough butch survivorm...
fe17 in idea barrages
1.) No one’s exclusively introverted or extroverted, we’re all some of one and some of the other. We’re all bioverted, really, false binaries fail us once again, as usual. 2.) facebook memories, ...
drinking the in poetry
Kool-Aid Flavours Could Also Be Sex Toys: The Great Blue-Dini Purplesaurus Rex Slammin’ Strawberry Oh-Yeah Orange Pineapple Shaking Starfruit Man-o-Mangoberry Cherry Cracker Grape Tan...
the sharp cut of her wit in an equal proportion to the softness of her lips in an equal proportion to the lush curve of her hips then a million other things I hope to yet discover still ...
fe16 in idea barrages
1.) Say whatcha will about spending 25 years suppressing my anger into sadness so that I wasn’t overwhelmed with rage, yeah yeah, we could write books about the few pros and many cons of my ad-ho...
fallen, in love in poetry
you have to give the devil this much: unlike Almighty God, he is humble enough to cut you a deal and do it in person oh, sure, of course, yes he’ll fuck you over hard but at least he w...
fe11 in idea barrages
1.) I’ll let the dog think he protected me from that snowplow he barked at for five minutes. “Oh yeah, Ollie, you totally scared off the monster.” 2.) Y’know, maybe it’s just me but I’ve lost my ...
fe10 in idea barrages
1.) Not enough people would get my joke about a vast government conspiracy of over-priced make-up stores called “MK-Ulta”. 2.) If you have to defend yourself from the Gestapo that ICE has become ...
fe9 in idea barrages
1.) The bastards have you buffaloed, worrying on what’s possible, what’s in line with your ideological tribe, even what’s real. None of those matter in the long run. What matters is what’s humane...
fe7 in idea barrages
1.) Ain’t nobody buying my pitch about two sweetly-dumb serial killers bumbling their way across the country in DAHM AND DAHMER. 2.) More like the Dow Jones COMBUSTIBLE Average, AMIRITE? 3.) Your...
the one stage of grief in poetry
they tell you that you won’t always be asking yourself if this is actually a nightmare asking yourself if you’re actually just in hell every couple of hours they tell you that those feeling...
fe6 in idea barrages
1.) The difference between “the greatest” and “just good enough” is all style points. Empty ego puffery. Do your thing. Don’t worry about being “the best” or “perfect”, that’s for suckers. Get yo...
fe5 in idea barrages
1.) I always watched Agents of SHIELD with my pop. I thought “oh God, at nine, I can’t miss it.” I didn’t forget him, I didn’t forget our tradition. I did, however, in my grief forget what day it...
my dad (reposted from facebook) in life stuff and misc.
So, yeah, my dad, the best father and husband in the world, passed away from a heart attack in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning. My brother was holding him in his arms, there was little pain, ...
keyword "warning" title "making history" in misc. flash fiction
His future mother-in-law called him “Jimmy”, even though his given name was James Sheng and nearly everyone since junior high just called him “Jim”. Qingzhao’s mother was a tiny tanned tin tyrant...