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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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chicago, in transit in poetry
it’s easy to fall in love at the airport on a layover between places in limbo literally the in-between place between death and life if you’re a generic mystic between heaven and hell if...
0223 in idea barrages
1.) I hate when I’m having a nice dream then I remember the implications in my real life of the niceness and have to disengage. 2.) So many content providers, so few contentment providers. 3.) So...
222 in idea barrages
1.) I often wonder how much my needs/desires/viewpoint are shaped by running on the operating system of late 20th century American English. 2.) Events remind us that if someone’s screwed up and m...
we make great pets in poetry
pet ownership is just a conversation where if there is any kind of clear confirmation it turns out that you’re crazy then again so is religion and th...
221 in idea barrages
1.) Fraternity reunions are full of brostalgia. 2.) All in all, my voice would be best suited to a doom-metal Built To Spill cover band. Probably called “Built To Kill” I dunno. 3.) Our first Pre...
0220 in idea barrages
8.) If your car’s got two flat tires, don’t worry, it’s still got a couple of goodyears left. 9.) Then there was of course that hit vegan country song “Don’t Sell Me No Thighs And Keep Your Ham T...
gratitude adjustment in poetry
thirty-something years old although running on a sixth-sense of feeling on some fourth or fifth lifetime on the seventh or eighth timeline fourteenth fifteenth chance to try that’s because I...
this life electric in poetry
we were born with minds and bodies prepared for jungles and for caves not information highways and mass graves at best adapted to be hunter-gatherers shaman and women campfire blatherers it ...
219 in idea barrages
1.) Your diner/weed dispensary will be called THE HASH HOUSE. 2.) If I had to be a judge-themed wrestler, I’d definitely name myself “City Hall” so that I could yell “YOU CAN’T FIGHT CITY HALL!” ...
the nightly news in poetry
The bad news is that you were not made for any particular fate destiny or purpose. The good news is that the world is big enough where you can find a purpose that fits you. ...
218 in idea barrages
1.) On the one hand, here are all the good things I have screwed up and lost. On the other hand, despite all that, here I am still breathing. 2.) Your horror movie set in the 70s will be called F...
217 in idea barrages
1.) Really, Dunkin, why would I want a coffee that tastes like a brownie? Couldn’t I just eat a brownie while drinking my coffee? 2.) A nightmare with every woman I’ve dated or had a serious crus...
216 in idea barrages
1.) I refuse to respect or accept wealth that was built on fraud, power that was built on fraud, position that was built on fraud. 2.) I am going to be hijacking the hell out of the Logan movie’s...
215 in idea barrages
1.) Your band will be called “Rebecca Romaine-Lettuce”. 2.) Happy VD everyone. may you all enjoy your VDs, in whatever form they take. 3.) Over a lifetime, a woman or a man is a plaything of the ...
214 in idea barrages
1.) Focusing on what you want won’t get you anywhere, how to get it will only take you dark places. Ask why you want it instead. 2.) “I Would Do Anything For Love But I Won’t Do That” is an early...
0213 in idea barrages
1.) The bastards know that no educated populace would allow their reign of corruption & hate so they dismantle education. 2.) All I’m saying is Panera Bread would be a lot cooler if it were P...
sharing words, sharing time sharing song, maybe making a dime these are the reasons I’m still alive in hospital bed that I didn’t die or wreck out on the four-oh-five hit by...
my 1,000th barrage on prosebox in idea barrages
1.) A great name for an autobiography would be “Naked From The Neck Up”. 2.) Our main hope is that these fascists have opened up battles on too many fronts at once and we can repel them as such. ...
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1.) More than anything, Game Show Host was installed to hoard privilege that a few were born into from those who were born struggling. 2.) Stockholm Syndrome. If you’re not rich or a Nazi and yo...
210 in idea barrages
1.) Maze. Your people call it “labyrinth”. 2.) Get old or die trying. 3.) Two ships passing in the dark long night of attempted meaning construction, just a couple of existential dreadnoughts. 4....
29 in idea barrages
1.) Was a lot written in ‘30s Europe about how weirdly day-to-day the rise of fascism could feel if you ignored the news? We can write it now. 2.) It was the best of February rap battles, it was ...
letting it happen in poetry
You are a work-in-progress. You are a reaction to your stimuli. You’re not betraying yourself by changing. You’re not betraying anyone. You are becoming yourself. You have...
28 in idea barrages
1.) Are the streets of Athens covered in a bunch of Ath-holes? 2.) I’d rather we get out of this awful charade without violence. Is that my privilege showing how I’d rather not add vengeance to r...
online everyone is a dog in poetry
smelling things is the internet for dogs sticking their heads out of car windows is a high-speed connection it’s a DSL login at least a dog sniffer linkup cable internet is easy for them t...
You can’t rely on begging heroes or leaders to change things anymore. They may be compromised. They may be exhausted. They might have death threats hanging over their grand kids. They...
