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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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letter to myself 2 in poetry
I’ve gotten better at turning frustration into grief instead of anger and that’s better for others and yet I don’t know if that’s actually better for me. Doubt kee...
the bird is the word in poetry
Creative success is a desert bird and I’m a charred flattened coyote but I will still strap that goddamned giant bottle-rocket to my back again. Making money off words ...
FAKE FACTS in poetry
FAKE FACT: No one wore underwear on the set of COMMANDO. FAKE FACT: early woks contained high levels of mercury, driving chefs slowly mad and coining the phrase “stir crazy”. FAKE ...
120 in idea barrages
1.) I hate how we call mercenaries “contractors” now like they’re architects in the little trailers behind construction sites. 2.) Overuse of Fireball is threatening biodiversity for the Dungeons...
letter to myself in poetry
Story is the negotiator between truth and madness and dreams are just full-life reviews transposed into metaphoric load, the keys to turning it around in unbreakable incomprehensible code, ...
and the oscar goes to in poetry
I met Oscar Wilde once at a cafe in Brooklyn he’d time-traveled there to see what the future was like nobody blinked at his attire everyone’s trying to dress like they’re from some other ti...
tell us about New York before Walt Disney took all the good peep shows made them shut their doors tell us about way back when we still protested wars tell us about Haight-A...
my best barrage ever in idea barrages
1.) If the Democratic Debates were Gilligan’s Island, O’Malley would just be called “And The Rest”. 2.) An app for lumberjacks looking for casual encounters with each other called Timbr. 3.) A pa...
118 in idea barrages
1.) I still don’t know how PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES exploded as a premise and not JANE AUSTEN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF BORING. 2.) Nightmares last night involved being naked in p...
117 in idea barrages
1.) If you don’t believe that they dump all the crap movies in January, watch the trailers for “50 Shades of Black” and “The Boy”. 2.) We’re losing all these geniuses so fast, someone’s gonna hav...
116 in idea barrages
1.) We joked for decades “here’s proof that Western Civilization is done” & then the Trump candidacy came along & it wasn’t funny anymore. 2.) “Where’s Superman?” the Martian Manhunter as...
tune of danke schoen in song parodies
(for the anniversary of my favourite cafe…) Tramontane, darling, Tramontane thank you for bagels filled with grains music shows, seven feet from me where the drums kept beat vintage seat, brown...
115 in idea barrages
1.) If someone’s annoying you, just whip around and be all “WHAT’S YOUR BEEF, STEW?” 2.) When you start expanding your paid insult business, you’re gonna end up diss enfranchised. 3.) With the lo...
114 in idea barrages
1.) One myth about militia douches is they call themselves “minutemen” because of revolutionary history as opposed to their sexual dysfunction. 2.) Mainstream successful bands never really “break...
113 in idea barrages
1.) I wonder if Christopher Walken ever used the pick-up line “Let your fingers do the Walken.” 2.) The Oscar Wilde-themed stand-up comedy set was totally bombing, his forehead was covered in fop...
112 in idea barrages
1.) The horses don’t believe in me but they’ve always been naysayers. 2.) It is almost impossible to believe David Bowie’s dead. It has to be a hoax. I’ve seen that man fend off a hurricane. 3.) ...
not my finest barrage in idea barrages
1.) If I had a mortal enemy frozen in carbonite, I’d sure as hell draw on his face with markers and stuff. 2.) The best thing about being a tv/film burnout is not having to pretend to give a damn...
110 in idea barrages
1.) If Rey turns out to be Luke’s kid, does that mean when she was piloting the Falcon she was in Uncle Han’s Cabin? 2.) Yosemite Sam, at customs at the airport, saying “I do declare!” so many ti...
19 in idea barrages
1.) I’m sure there are Esperanto rappers somewhere but are there any GOOD ones? 2.) “Oh we had YA when I was a kid, back then we called it Comic Books” is the most Old Man thought I’ve ever had. ...
18 in idea barrages
1.) They’re rebooting “Moon Knight” AGAIN again? Marvel, baby, you gotta know when to let go. He ain’t happening. 2.) Hipsters only eat Normal Ranch Doritos from before it was Cool. 3.) If only L...
must be somebody's maybe in poetry
how many pop songs would have totally different meanings if you transposed “maybe” and “baby” in every single hit? the line between tame romance and disturbing ambiguity is actually that r...
17 in idea barrages
1.) 2000 Flushes needs to sell a slightly larger product, shaped like a rectangular monolith, named 2001 Flushes. 2.) Christopher Robin’s brief period as a beat poet is best known for his perform...
16 in idea barrages
1.) The trick is to wait until March or April to go to the gym twice then give up so no one treats you like a January-Only. 2.) It’s weird. It’s right there that it’s about a well-regulated milit...
with grace in poetry
Believe in anything you can’t prove too much and pretty soon you’re a hammer and everything that disagrees is a nail. Don’t believe too much. Sympathy is easy but it doesn’t last lon...
15 in idea barrages
1.) “Life Is A Highway” is a fun song but it’s probably hell to play it 230 gigs a year. 2.) Actually, Admiral Akbar was a lot like Luke, he himself rose from the station of simple oyster farmer....
