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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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Some parts of our past are just like kryptonite, chunks of where we came from, rocketing back to take away our strength. Home can kill you as swiftly as a speeding bullet more powerfully tha...
when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail when you’re an anxiety disorder, everything is a reason to scream when you’re a literary theory, everything needs to be deconstructed when you...
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1.) A time traveler shows up, sees “Paul Blart Mall Cop 2” on a marquee and realizes he ended up in the bad future. 2.) I walked the path of True Believer & all it got me was heartache. I’m ...
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1.) “I like tall girls, you know what I mean/I want a girl who’s five-foot-thirteen”. This is the closest I’ve come to writing a love song. 2.) Were there only more Venn overlap for Guns N Roses ...
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1.) In my mind, every blonde newsreader on Fox News is called “G. Gordon Lady”. 2.) McMuffins after 10 b-b-b-baby we just want McMuffins after 10. Here’s money, here’s money you’re not gonna get,...
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1.) She used her magic primarily in the service of interior design, being as she was a decormancer. 2.) I am still disappointed that the theme to GAME OF THRONES isn’t “George RR Maaaaartin, Geor...
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1.) If “synthesizer” was an ethnic group, “Who’s Gonna Drive You Home Tonight?” would count as a hate crime. 2.) I always feel bad when I overhear someone cornered by a crank because they’re too ...
because you in poetry
Don’t believe in the cult of anyone. Great things happen through the cooperation of many or massive dumb luck or both. Don’t believe that anything is magic other than maybe you. Becaus...
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1.) Copies of my chapbook “This Is My Inside Voice” are again on the shelf at @TramontaneCafe or contact me for mail details! 2.) I need less blood in my coffee stream and more, you know, coffee....
hudson street moment in poetry
sometimes I want to disappear melt away join the rain wash down to the sewers on a slow march to the sea suffuse into the firmament still exist but no longer be sometimes I want to dis...
sing a song of six pens a dollar pack of bics the thoughts are running wild now you’d better catch them quick when the pens have run out the cheap ink left to dry even if it’s all ...
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1.) In the Shatner vehicle “T.J. Hooker” the T.J. stood for “Trap Jaw”. 2.) I’d like a “Super Size Me” doc about a guy who buys bit parts in dozens of crowd-sourced movies to burnish his IMDB pro...
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1.) All zombie Jesus jokes aside, Easter must be a complicated thing to celebrate in the Walking Dead universe. 2.) Not surprisingly, “Daydream Believer” and “Dirty Water” would mash up beautiful...
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1.) Ride high on the Luck Plane when a spit-curl rises, hide on-shore when waters are low. Hope for the best. Keep the board ready for the next one. 2.) Betsy Ross or whoever it was couldn’t have...
easter barrage in idea barrages
1.) Bono is the anti-Bowie, constantly changing to be completely uninteresting in new and different ways. 2.) Expectant mothers: name your child Bad News so you can forever be known as the bearer...
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1.) In the Tea Party adaptation of Hamlet, they’re all “get thee to a gunnery!” 2.) My favourite Peanuts/60s-70s revolutionary mash-up would definitely be Peppermint Pattie Hearst. 3.) The horse ...
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1.) Next they’re gonna say Hilary killed the Easter Bunny and refer to it as “Bunghazi”. 2.) In scifi, they make giant vegetables seem world-saving but they’d still require as much water and mine...
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1.) You have no idea what it is like to have a laptop that can be off the cord for more than two minutes again. It is like living in the future. 2.) Edit an action movie so every gunshot sound is...
for pete's sake in poetry
two of my ex-girlfriends were both hit on by the kid who played Older Pete on the Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” but it’s not like I grew up with him it’s not like...
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1.) Whenever an entertainer says “don’t interrupt I’m sharing my gift with the audience” unironically, immediate 72-hour psych hold. 2.) Didja ever notice that whatever bad traits bigots project ...
synecdoche in poetry
here we are on an obscure earth dimly lit under an obscure moon with no supermen to save us no gods to bail us out from our extant monstrous hubris to absolve us of responsibi...
the legend of minnie driver in poetry
minnie driver was sixteen feet tall when they shot her role as the female lead in the oscar-winning “good will hunting” on the dvd out-takes you can see the stilts the other actors had t...
scars on your body scars on your back scars like a map follow the rivers and roads the pink shiny trails that only came back by eighty-three percent useful and whole as ever but nev...
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1.) No man is an island. Except ol’ Joe Krakatoa, of course. 2.) Yes, it is the journey not the destination but only if you’re always trying. If you give up, the journey gives up on you. 3.) “If ...
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1.) The Fog of Worf. 2.) Mash up 1: Fleetwood Mac YOU MAKE LOVIN FUN vs Dire Straits MONEY FOR NOTHIN 3.) Mash up 2: BLUE ON BLACK vs FEEL LIKE MAKIN LOVE 4.) Mash up 3: MOONDANCER vs TAKE FIVE 5...
