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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.
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five into seventy-two in poetry
the deer on Route Five are trying to give their lives to take out our cars late at night as a political or religious statement at this point fucking deer ...
independence day in poetry
after we invade countries after we raze cities burn their farms and commandeer their wells start putting in Cinnabons Starbucks and Shells when they start getting our summer ...
this is not a finished poem in poetry
wisdom is realizing you’re never going to be wise all of the time no matter how much experience you’ve got up your sleeve revise revise revise Einstein close to the nature of...
cinqo de barrago in idea barrages
1.) On the off-chance you write a scientific paper on insect die-offs, entitling it “Plight of the Bumblebee” is your civic duty. 2.) I somehow accidentally clicked the button on facebook that ch...
54 in idea barrages
1.) I sure hope that if there’s a booze stand at the ren faire, they call it The Flagon Wagon. 2.) In my particular cultural niche a “Power of Love”/Nintendo Power Glove parody would work but alm...
53 in idea barrages
1.) I am opposed to the death penalty but for whomever decided to start calling appetizers “apps” I am willing to be flexible. 2.) After we invade countries, when they start getting our movies wh...
52 in idea barrages
1.) You can train your bird to sing a Fresh Prince song but that doesn’t mean he gets the meaning. Parrots just don’t understand. 2.) Your vegan death metal band will be called Despairagus. 3.) C...
radio free will in poetry
oh baby oh darling I’ve held my commission despite indecision despite all the derision I’ve held my commission despite all the times it has meant my omission despite all the dissin’ the jam...
may day barrage in idea barrages
1.) He claims to have aced the test on Scottish history but his friend retorted “Picts or it didn’t happen”. 2.) We are too old to be prodigies but, hell, being Cool Uncles to the next wave of pr...
430 in idea barrages
1.) Convince someone that 420 is a reference to “A Song of Six Pence” because it involves 4 and 20 of something baked. 2.) Sadly, all “Snoke On The Water” parodies must wait until the next Star W...
429 in idea barrages
1.) We couldn’t be sure because the thick gloves but she at least had supposeable thumbs. 2.) When someone smugly refers to their self as a “locovore”, yell “YOU EAT TRAINS?” as loudly as you can...
as we go along in poetry
had the power socket gone up in flames at three in the morning not five in the afternoon I would be dead right now suffocated along with my family and their pets we would have all been dea...
428 in idea barrages
1.) Nothing “stars” Eric Roberts. Oh, there are things where Eric Roberts is in a lead or leading role but nothing STARS him. 2.) Trump is the Pabst Blue Ribbon of politics: cheap, terrible, ubiq...
giving thanks in poetry
If jocks thank God when they win, they should blame Satan when they lose. “That interception I threw, I blame The Devil.” “The opposing point guard sold his soul to the King of L...
427 in idea barrages
1.) Nothing like a marathon nightmare about watching time travelers try to prevent World War Two, changing nothing in the broad strokes of the outcome but remixing the smaller details then their ...
426 in idea barrages
1.) “Hooked On Phonics” sounds all well and good until you see the horrors of phonics rehab. 2.) Make a movie about a time after the fall of man and spaghetti rules the world so you can call it p...
425 in idea barrages
1.) Is there any way to start dating but skip the awkward early parts, cut to the comfortable-with-each-other thing? I’d love that right now. 2.) You know what they say. When you’re pedantic abou...
mystics and statistics in poetry
eighty-three percent of all men are assholes eighty-three percent of all women are assholes eighty-three percent of all people who in one way or the other do not fit into the traditional gend...
424 in idea barrages
1.) One of Jesus’s lesser known powers was that no one could yell at Him for leaving a door open because He was, in fact, born in a barn. 2.) When she found out he disapproved of her past as a fo...
people of the book in poetry
you can’t just kill the landlord gotta burn the deed you can’t just hoard one harvest gotta spread the seed you can’t just give one meal out gotta socialize the feed you can’t just smoke...
423 in idea barrages
1.) No, what we meant was that the gluten therein was at no extra charge. 2.) Life, it seems, is a process of figuring out who you are and what you’re able to do then hoping you’ve got enough tim...
422 in idea barrages
1.) If my beard always felt the way it does just after a good Ivory soap shower, I’d be a lot less apt to mow it off. 2.) The few times in my life I’ve had to abbreviate Red Hot Chili Peppers as ...
not quite an atheist in poetry
I’m open to an improbable solution to this problem maybe there are gods and monsters, unicorns and goblins but I’ve been made to never see Shiva, Yahweh or the magic because if I knew that...
421 in idea barrages
1.) If Alice Cooper doesn’t make his drummer perform under the stage name “Alice Krupa” he’s got the whole thing wrong. 2.) It’s a shame we’re like 20 years too late for Ted Danson to put on a bu...
viral strain in poetry
back in our day back in the Nineties the memes were SO much less potent if someone was passing around a little “Mr. T Ate My Balls” at a rock concert if someone brought a...
