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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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how long a life in poetry
all of our faces and internal places our tenderest non-negotiable spaces all the basics will almost surely be separated out by their atomic density by the end of the tw...
920 in idea barrages
1.) “How do I play the Webster game on Steam?” Lou asked. “Just read the e-manual, Louis!” she responded. 2.) I wonder how often Nolan Ryan has been asked to sign photos of Robin Ventura. “Just s...
919 in idea barrages
1.) Here’s a sad thing to think about: teenagers today would think the title of the film SFW stands for “Safe For Work”. 2.) Time travelers unionized and now can only be fired with just causality...
not my best barrage (because of allergies) in idea barrages
1.) In this set of dreams, I was tortured with rose thorns for not understanding abstract math then someone stole all the ID in my wallet and replaced it with counterfeit lottery tickets but left...
917 in idea barrages
1.) The Professor saw there were two women way out of his league on that boat plus an elderly couple and a gay couple. He did as we all would. 2.) We try to force destiny on ourselves through obs...
916 in idea barrages
1.) We’re just failin’ until we perfect failure so we’ll know what succeeding really means. Maybe we’ll learn success is awful! 2.) They left off the B is all, it’s the Bend Times. When all the f...
915 in idea barrages
1.) An album of romantic sea shanties called “Love Is In The Arrrr”. 2.) At this point, I find spam e-mails from fake Viagra suppliers less offensive than linkedin invites. 3.) It’s a breakfast s...
914 in idea barrages
1.) Steamrollers are the sincerest form of flattening. 2.) Start a rumour that Syracuse’s football team is bad because of a curse & the only way to lift it is to forgive my student loans. 3.)...
913 in idea barrages
1.) Some of the funniest early colour cartoons were about the madness brought on by starvation. 2.) Step 1: Create a smoking device that looks like Taco Bell food. Step 2: call it “the burrito bo...
912 (my best or worst one in a while) in idea barrages
1.) Never forget but never hate blindly either. A handful of brainwashed zealots tried to light a holy war. Extinguish it with love. 2.) She listened to the Beatles all the time. She listened to ...
911 in idea barrages
1.) Was asked to run for City Council today. Happily, this very feed long ago rendered me unelectable. Thanks, facebook and twitter! 2.) In the future everyone will get 21,600 selfies of fame. 3....
Decency is not dishonesty. I won’t accept that proposition, no matter how much political juice jerks can get from that position. They call decency dishonest while all the while emb...
910 in idea barrages
1.) Someday, I’d like to be hosting a Q&A where I can say “question in the back…” and then blurt out “PARTY UP FRONT!” 2.) If you explained to Mike Huckabee that baby carrots are actually jus...
99 in idea barrages
1.) Straight Outta Commas… Compensating With Ellipses 2.) Your band will be called Jack Kerouvorkian. 3.) They mostly just embrace the idea of the End Times out of laziness because if we’re doome...
98 in idea barrages
1.) The one-ring was made out of cheese, to in the darkness bind them up. 2.) Get the phrase “Totally 80s” tattooed on your throat. When asked, proclaim yourself a radneck. 3.) Decency is not dis...
97 in idea barrages
1.) All these ads about cell plans with high-speed data and none of them have Brent Spiner running in them. Lost opportunity. 2.) So I forgot how Beard + Poppyseed Bagel = endless poppyseeds in b...
and then wake up in poetry
find a girl unimpressed by boys who play guitar hold onto her like treasure like the miracles they are know you hit the lottery with that very first kiss there are not many...
know the difference between “having what it takes” and “having what they want to take away” because no one else is gonna know it for you because anxiety and panic aren’t about reg...
yahweh or the highway in poetry
As a popular culture we reserve vastly more pity forgiveness for the misdeeds flaws and complexities of fictional characters than we do real people. Serial killers ...
common things like band-aids lose their trademark power and their corporate identity to common use by consumers the same as peacemakers lose their names to history. like astroturf...
All these people for whom being interesting was just a passing phase who now aspire for average, I must admit, I weep for them… All of these conventionals, why can’t they run off to...
96 in idea barrages
1.) The King of Asgard is not forgotten/this is the story of Johnny Wotan/Johnny Wotan/Wotan Johnny… 2.) You can’t spell “superhero” without “her”. 3.) Remember, they’re called desperados. Not op...
I am not entitled to love I do not in some way specially deserve love yet I cannot deny my longing some woman of nostalgic interest with orange lipstick on her lips and a quick s...
summer's end in poetry
paranoia runs deep at the summer’s end cuts through the still-drying sweat like a stream the hot opportunities cooling off just like the nights or anyhow that’s how it seems at the summer’s e...
95 in idea barrages
1.) It’s come to my attention that there are people who DON’T call The Fonda Fair “Redneck Disneyland”? 2.) Is there a furry-porn called “The Secret Of N.I.M.P.H.O.” yet? 3.) Australian for “vomi...
