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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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love's labours found in poetry
our expertise won’t save us now plain logic won’t repair us either now sage reasoning won’t redeem us negotiating won’t even buy us a breather but though no saviour in plain sight the...
keyword "right" title "quantum immortality" in misc. flash fiction
You wake up knowing you died yesterday yet here you are, safe in bed. This isn’t the first time, it’s happened often enough to lose count, dead but alive, no one else able to recall a thing. You ...
feb capstone in idea barrages
1.) It is weird to get reprimanded on a website for pointing out that Tim Tebow is an opportunistic hatemonger while he is only rewarded for being as such. The parallels to Cadet Bone Spurs are n...
fe27 in idea barrages
1.) In this nightmare, I was stuck in a time loop of being shot to death at a composite of a few different shopping malls. Every time I died, I returned to the start of the dream and every time, ...
fe25 in idea barrages
1.) The fact that the porno movie awards aren’t called The Peephole’s Choice Awards is one of our culture’s great hidden sins. 2.) I swear to God, actual cable news headline “Is Arming Teachers A...
fe24 in idea barrages
1.) Your sitcom about people trying to be Portland/Austin/Williamsburg/Echo Park-style hipsters in a city too small to sustain a full scene will be called NOISY, IDAHO. 2.) What’s that flower tha...
fe23 in idea barrages
1.) Claudia Tenney is an almost impossibly horrible human being and if you’re planning to waste your vote on a third party candidate instead of voting for the Democratic candidate because you req...
over a barrel in poetry
the hoary pervasive myth that freedom must be won down the barrel of a gun is one of the worst toxic lies underpinning our entire society on the right and the left both way too many gr...
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 ...
