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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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a25 in idea barrages
1.) I wonder how many spy services have mothballed their shortwave numbers stations for Twitter burner accounts. 2.) She was so vegan she wouldn’t even listen to Captain Beefheart. 3.) Chicago-st...
a24 in idea barrages
1.) Before you judge people on the (admittedly horrible) pumpkin spice thing, ask yourself: did I share some really gross bacon meme? 2.) Everyone’s mad at everyone about everything, it’s a verit...
the suggestion box in poetry
Don’t call it a “love/hate relationship” call it “Sweet ‘N’ Loathe”? Put a sign up in your restaurant: “Like our salads? Lettuce know!” Yell “GOING INTO THE MARINARA TRENCH!” every time you dip...
a22 in idea barrages
1.) Put a sign up in your restaurant: “Like our salads? Lettuce know!” 2.) How does the fast food sandwich feel in your hands, what are its burgenomics? 3.) I’ve been trying to embrace the fact t...
karma tornado warning in poetry
cigarettes for the dying and loose change for the dead ice cream for the living and used cars to drive your head cedar chests and protests to aid the yet-to-come we’ve got poems f...
the strand in poetry
your mourning heart still seeks you out as you melt away in the city of the night in the slums of your own lost reckoning in smashed-up glass-strewn alleyways of meaning sleeping...
a21 in idea barrages
1.) LOVE “the director’s crazy” so bad its good. HATE “ironic-intentional” so bad its good. MISS “rushing it out/not trying” so bad its good. 2.) Half of being creative is paying attention but ou...
a20 in idea barrages
1.) Do you yell “GOING INTO THE MARINARA TRENCH!” every time you dip your mozzarella sticks? Life’s too short not to. 2.) Boston, it is madness to drive on your streets and your sports radio is a...
privileged understudy in poetry
there’s worse things I have been called than a noble cause’s back-up plan better than sleeping in instead to make a stand even and especially if I am found to be unnecessary and to the bares...
a19 in idea barrages
1.) When they tell you about “the gig economy” remember that a “gig” is a tool to kill frogs in the darkness. 2.) If you find those statues so beautiful, little Donnie, how about you drop trow an...
food folks and in poetry
your life is like a twenty-piece mcnuggets it’s super cheap and kind of gross and it’s incredibly delicious in a crass sort of way you sure as hell don’t want to think about the process in w...
the class of ninety-seven in poetry
One good thing about social networking we all can agree on: it has negated the entire concept of class reunions. We don’t have to pretend that they’re fun just so we can learn what everyone i...
beautiful songs of love in poetry
Being single in your thirties is like losing a game of musical chairs several random times a day and having to deal with it. Every once in a while you can feel the music stop, look all t...
turn turn turn in poetry
Some times call for bards singing songs of love others call for skalds roaring praise for those who beat back monsters. Some times call for doctors to bind wounds other call for doctors...
a17 in idea barrages
1.) It is so hard making jokes right now, with Nazis plowing down people in the streets and the Kremlin-Agent-In-Chief approving of it. 2.) Things you admit when you’re old: other than vaguely un...
the ides of august barrage in idea barrages
1.) Print out the word “caution” 50,000 times. Shred the paper into confetti. Go outside. Throw caution to the wind. 2.) The only thing I got Cs in was penmanship. “Cursive, foiled again!” I was ...
birthday barrage in idea barrages
1.) In this nightmare, there was a formerly aristocratic family living in the ruins of a mansion and I tried to help them see through their madness in the rubble… and it turned out the thought-de...
THIS MACHINE in poetry
Ted Williams killed fascists. Hank Greenberg killed fascists. Jackie Robinson killed fascists. My grandpa killed fascists. Dwight Eisenhower killed fascists. John Kennedy killed fascists...
a13 in idea barrages
1.) What a mess I’d be if I wasn’t afraid, what a mess I am because I am. 2.) Maybe telling someone to go screw himself will lead him to coming into his own. 3.) A movie about Tweety’s endless to...
upon a renamed city park in poetry
folding chair at a summer fair grade school and town library on the green that’s in-between life will pass me right on by fifteen maybe twenty times generations before and hence faces u...
a12 in idea barrages
1.) Most people start seeing grey hairs after a surgery or giving birth or getting hit by lightning. The 2016 election is whitening my chin. 2.) Trying to look for upsides: atomic war during a So...
a11 in idea barrages
1.) One good thing about social networking we all can agree on: it has negated the entire concept of a class reunion. 2.) In reality, by putting “Fair Play” on his costume, Mr. Terrific would jus...
mr. in-between in poetry
why are you all so beautiful why are you all be too taken or too far away too young for me or too deep in responsibility why are you all be beautiful while I’m still just me today
blood moon in poetry
the blood moon lay so close to the horizon I could pluck it from the sky between my two fingers if I had someone to gift it to but I do not so you will keep your tides tonight so you will k...
a10 in idea barrages
1.) The best name for a Shakespeare-inspired porno is, of course, “As You Lick It”. 2.) I was so disappointed when I found out “robotripping” was just “drinking a lot of cough medicine”. I hoped ...
