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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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n15 in idea barrages
1.) The Starbucks ad said “turkey stuffing panini” but there was not a single bird fixing sandwiches in the back. Just dumb ol’ people. Nothing exceptional about a person stuffing a panini. Had a...
n14 in idea barrages
1.) If ever own a groundhog, I am sure as hell calling it “William S Burrows”. 2.) The sitcom about the Bushes shouldn’t have been called “That’s My Bush”, they went for the cheap sex joke when “...
n13 in idea barrages
1.) If St. Louis’ hockey team is The Blues and New Orleans used to have The Jazz, when I buy the Brooklyn Nets, I’m renaming them The Twee Indie-Rock. 2.) The only reason that the military hasn’t...
n12 in idea barrages
1.) Los Angeles taught me that if you must have heroes, at least have all your heroes be already dead so they can never do anything awful that’s new. Be your own hero if you can but if you can’t ...
n11 in idea barrages
1.) In retrospect, maybe I should count my blessings that failed in Los Angeles when I was younger, all the moral quandaries I’d be indirectly connected to now had I “made it”. 2.) I will cop to ...
n10 in idea barrages
1.) Don’t lend your winter clothes to Lou because there’s no parka Louis can’t lose. 2.) Less fragile masculinity, more agile humanity. 3.) Trying to force a cinematic universe is like starting a...
right and wrong (amended) in poetry
don’t talk loudly during the open mic night don’t talk LOUDLY during the open mic night you can whisper if you want to you can chatter sotto voce we understand if you’re trying to get laid we un...
writing prompt: silence. title: all that glitters in misc. flash fiction
She awoke as she did every weekday, three-fourteen in the morning, one minute before her alarm, just enough time to prepare herself and then commute. “Payroll at four,” she thought, “one more shi...
n9 in idea barrages
1.) I thought I’d never meet a pun I didn’t like and then I found out there will be a terrible CGI childrens’ film called “Sherlock Gnomes” and, yep, a pun so terrible even I despise it. 2.) I’m ...
repetition historifies itself in poetry
three airplanes were taken down by a small army with box cutters fifteen years later they still won’t let us fly with toenail clippers on our person but get shot to death in a school ...
n8 in idea barrages
1.) Three planes taken down with box cutters, we can’t fly with fingernail clippers 15 years later. But die by a gun and they just don’t care. 2.) I still say everyone in Genesis except Phil Coll...
n7 in idea barrages
1.) I try to not judge humanity on the actions of the worst of us, let alone the clearly untreated ill, but when my friends are disrespected I just feel… angry and helpless. 2.) The wrestling hot...
n6 in idea barrages
1.) The only way you get to remake Mrs. Doubtfire is if you use the title “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dad”. 2.) Your rap about the Ten Commandments had better involve the line “LISTEN ALLA Y...
the rock-a-fire implosion in poetry
the Chuck E Cheese nowadays looks like an iPad through up all over the inside of it all flashing flat screen teevees and ticket-dispensing machines and I mean, times change, I get it pinball ...
keep the change ya filthy animal in poetry
theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime and remembering that Donald Trump had a cameo in Home Alone 2 Doctor Macaulay Culkin stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator ...
n5 in idea barrages
1.) Chuck E Cheese adapted to look like an iPad threw up cuz that’s what kids dig now but w/out an army of terrifying robots, something is lost. 2.) psychopomp and circumstance, squeeze the shama...
n4 in idea barrages
1.) I thought I’d had the dumbest idea ever, super mario brothers “bob-omb bath bomb” but, nope, you can buy ‘em on Etsy. 2.) They care about debt and deficit when they can punish the poor and th...
n3 in idea barrages
1.) A show about a team of young Olympic champions that solve mysteries called THOSE MEDALLING KIDS. 2.) Draw a bunch of ferris wheels and call your exhibition “Carny Art”. 3.) Maybe we need to b...
a visitation from the man in the teevee in poetry
As a kid, you eat candy on Halloween and then probably get cavities down the road. As an adult, I got a cavity drilled on Halloween and don’t get to eat any candy at all because I have to be l...
every time a tomorrow morning comes something new might have happened upending the terrible things that are tearing you down every day it might be something completely outside of your c...
1102 in idea barrages
1.) If when you ask her out, she flies away on a broom, have you been cronezoned? 2.) An app that tells you what app is best in the given situation called Appropos. 3.) A horror movie about a sma...
november opening barrage in idea barrages
1.) As a child, you eat a bunch of candy on Halloween. As an adult, tomorrow morning I go get a cavity drilled and don’t eat any candy because I have to be low-carb now. Peter Pan may have had an...
non spooky barrage in idea barrages
1.) Is the shortening for Star Trek Discovery “STD”? Did they… think this through? 2.) Is there anything more British than the attempts to somehow prove that Shakespeare COULDN’T be middle-class,...
all hallows eve eve barrage in idea barrages
1.) The fake president was so excited when he heard someone was giving out Peeps for Halloween. Then? Disappointed. 2.) Ridgewood Queens should advertise with the slogan “Ridgewood! For EVERYONE’...
american tune in poetry
mournful train horn wails on through the valley undercut by screeches of its metal kissing metal joyous whistles as it wears itself away the wheels wear away the track wears away by mile...
