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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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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...
double meaning blues in poetry
I tried raising some Cain but I was just unable tried raising racing horses but I ended up unstable tried rising dough in a warm kitchen but I couldn’t raise the bread ...
mar12 in idea barrages
1.) The good thing about chasing something with no monetary collectors’ value like VHS of Jerry Maguire is that you can go on a thrift binge, like today, and even if you don’t get anything else, ...
mar11 in idea barrages
1.) I want a David Lynch cookbook called “Fire Wok With Me”. 2.) How did it take me thirty-eight years to realize “Roadhouse Blues” and “Truckin” were the exact same song? 3.) If you don’t have a...
keyword "singing" title "finding your voice" in misc. flash fiction
She always called it a curse, even though it was all caused by a small benign tumor in her brain. She wondered aloud if she’d run afoul of Romani travelers or Vodou practitioners enough times to ...
mar10 in idea barrages
1.) I mean, sure, if I knew how to hack and mod video games, I would definitely make THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE MACARENA OF TIME but you can’t build up this much pun acuity while also learning how ...
mar9 in idea barrages
1.) Maybe the reason we haven’t met any aliens yet is that there’s a mass extinction at the point in every civilization once anti-vax psychotics start popping up en masse and we just haven’t tipp...
mar8 in idea barrages
1.) Is there a saint of the in-between places, of transitional states? Is there a saint of Limbo? Is there a saint for the truckstops? All I’m saying is, I’m not the most busy person these days, ...
keyword "spirit" title "like a natural wolfman in misc. flash fiction
So much of my writing starts by mishearing something and then the misunderstanding turns out to be more interesting than the original intent. I’ve written more than four hundred parody songs, sit...
mar7 in idea barrages
1.) Half the problem is cowardly journalists covering a “president” with no democratic legitimacy as if he is actually the president. The emperor almost literally has no clothes. The minute telev...
mar5 in idea barrages
1.) The icicles on the trees, that’s just branch dressing. 2.) Always wonderful to be at an open mic instead of worrying about the Oscars. Washing out in L.A. had its benefits after all. 3.) Your...
human beans in poetry
of course the dogs freak out when they see each other when you end up kidnapped by the giant aliens yourself when you’re kept by them as an amusement and companion you’ll ...
mar4 in idea barrages
1.) This bag of Hershey Miniatures is challenging my low-carb diet so badly. There’s a little jerk in me who keeps yelling “RELEASE THE KRACKLE” and I have to keep punching him in the face with m...
mar3 in idea barrages
1.) If the human race survives without another dark age, in a couple hundred years, they’ll look upon our culture’s holy veneration of the gun, our American cult of death, the same way we look up...
mar2 in idea barrages
1.) The NRA doesn’t care about you, they just want to sell more guns. The NRA doesn’t care about safety or the Bill of Rights or human lives or their own members, they just want to sell more guns...
territorial pissings in poetry
just because lines on a map are of functional passing utility doesn’t make them anything actual most of the things that the lines represent are made up the roads and the buildings...
march opener in idea barrages
1.) No British food stuff sounds more like a made-up food stuff from a 90s science-fiction series than “Jaffa Cakes”. You can totally see Quark selling jaffa cakes alongside that Klingon coffee “...
content, content everywhere but not a place to think content, content everywhere contentment, not a wink I’m not much for drinking I’m not saying it’s wrong but you can keep the wine ...
