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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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o11 in idea barrages
1.) Your metal band will be called Dumlaut with an umlaut over each instance of the letter “u”. 2.) Remember, these Nazis don’t care if they’re known to be hateful or stupid as long as they feel ...
o10 in idea barrages
1.) More than anything, IKEA sells the illusion that building your own stuff poorly is better than paying a little extra to have it done right. 2.) At this point in the Trump junta, we’re only al...
o9 in idea barrages
1.) Move over, mad scientists, there’s a mad vintner in THE ISLAND OF DR. MERLOT. 2.) Power your starship with penicillin and Activia, the probiotics and antibiotics annihilating each other to re...
o8 in idea barrages
1.) Teenage frogs dissecting humans in science class. 2.) Beetlejuice, flipping through a Lovecraft novel, laughing his ass off at every other line. 3.) A good thing to do to mess with local Scie...
o7 in idea barrages
1.) Oh man. A parody of “Ebony and Ivory” about apathy and irony would be pretty clutch, if anyone remembered Ebony and Ivory. 2.) You know a frog is into racist conspiracy theories when it croak...
o6 in idea barrages
1.) There WILL be Vegas “Truthers” peddling madness to pretend we don’t need change. The doc about them will be called “Disbelieving Las Vegas”. 2.) Your wrestling/Dr. Who mash-up will be called ...
you will go to the moon in poetry
The moon, above all else, is above all else. She hangs up there languid and waiting. People have been there but only for a little while only pushing the limits of what we can do as humans even...
maybe I am damned to write another heartbroken poem after every senseless massacre that the American cult of the gun causes and then bullies us into never doing anything about this time i...
the run down in poetry
You who chase bliss, I can understand you. You who chase power, I can reason with you at least sometimes. You who chase compassionate acts, I try to be with you, I try to be like you, I try t...
a rolling stone slowly erodes losing itself to the road as it goes a rolling stone gathers no moss that is to say rather it gathers loss the stone slowly sheers off thin layers on itself le...
o5 in idea barrages
1.) The new fad with the kids is getting as many venereal diseases as they can. It’s a burning sensation! 2.) If you watch the prequels imagining Palpatine as Trump and Jill Stein voters collecti...
o4 in idea barrages
1.) Not only is the “DIE HARD is the best Christmas movie” meme annoying as hell but it’s also false. BATMAN RETURNS, c’mon. 2.) Cats and dogs are wonderful because they don’t know the state of t...
o3 in idea barrages
1.) All the ancient men with their pumped up dicks, takin’ pills takin’ pills, boners at a hundred… 2.) Success doesn’t make you a good person. If you succeeded by hurting others, you are bad and...
o2 in idea barrages
1.) “Learn to speak human” I tell the dog “and I can help you better. Doesn’t even have to be English, I speak some French, Pop knows Russian.” 2.) My body itself is a first world problem. Trying...
sympathy for the devil we knew in poetry
I went to a K-Mart going-out-of-business sale to mourn a kind of America that has passed way maybe no less evil in its consumerism but certainly less invasive when at least the rich pe...
o1 in idea barrages
1.) No one refers to their disease as “moderate to severe” outside of commercials. Maybe moderate OR severe but never both. 2.) I listen to the late-night paranormal radio shows and think “Ah the...
to the tune of LOVE SHACK in song parodies
if you see a light-up sign by the cinema door that says “fifteen films based on Lovecraft” Lovecraft, H.P. you’re headin’ down Miskatonic Highway what’s the source, literarily? headed for t...
s30 in idea barrages
1.) Calling “Saranac Thursdays” “the Sarnac Pit” is a very niche-specific joke. 2.) There’s multiple musicals about Jesus being a hippie but none about Jesus being a beatnik, which would really b...
to the tune of WORKING CLASS HERO in song parodies
as soon as you’re born you’re in Burger King hell God help you if you’re sent off to the Taco Bell God can’t help you with the things that McDonalds sells a working class gyro is something...
s29 in idea barrages
1.) Sing a Dave Matthews song as a pirate and it sounds like you’re at a pet-related car accident. “Crash into me deer?!” 2.) A badboy tennis star falls in love with his parole officer in COURT A...
to the tune of Prince's Kiss in song parodies
don’t have to be beautiful to turn on Don just drink a lot of fluids from dusk till dawn you don’t need experience you don’t need clout you just have to save it all up and know when to l...
to the tune of END OF THE LINE in song parodies
well it’s all right, walking against a stiff breeze well it’s all right, be trapped in a box if you please well it’s all right, pulling invisible rope well it’s all right, whatever you ...
to the tune of Karma Police in song parodies
Carmel police, arrest this man he prefers nougat he wants it pretzel-filled he wants some sea salt on it Carmel police, arrest this girl she wants some Reeses that she can go...
broke as a joke in poetry
If it ain’t broke, maybe it is actually broke and its trying to distract from its brokenness with folksy-ass words like “ain’t”. If it ain’t broke, maybe its just that its investments aren...
waxen wings in poetry
maybe Icarus had to be rash enough to fly too close to the sun if he was going to be able to try and fly at all, you know? Icarus did die a free man after all, there’s something to that Icaru...