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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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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...
331 in idea barrages
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 ...
330 in idea barrages
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...
329 in idea barrages
1.) I’m taking back stubble. No longer will stubble be curated fashion choice, again it will mean you don’t have steady work to shave for. 2.) My inability to shut my mind off isn’t a bug, it’s a...
328 in idea barrages
1.) For a man of my generation “never pretended to like Dave Matthews in an attempt to have sex” is a resume-worthy accomplishment. 2.) Debate club sounds a lot cooler if you call it “fallacy foo...
327 in idea barrages
1.) I’m full of surprises. And peanut butter. (The surprise is how MUCH peanut butter!) 2.) The best thing about One Direction is they’re SO not threateningly masculine that they’re stealth pro-l...
gray lines in poetry
Fiction can tell us truths in the places where mere fact finds itself afraid to tread. But only as long as fiction acknowledges itself upfront. When fiction breaks that trust it b...
distant laughter in poetry
the gods do wait to delight in you. not a manufactured you but you. not a most hireable you but you. the best of you. no varnish on top of you. no resume exaggerations. no p...
326 in idea barrages
1.) Gettin’ in an Uber rip-off, bein’ all “DO YOU EVEN BRO, LYFT?” 2.) The son in MR. MOM did it all for the Woobie. 3.) Nixon sent men to the moon just so he could put a note in the flagpole say...
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation driven stark raving sane exhaust their heat on respectability instead of making the world change get semi-stable jobs sit down and make kids or at l...
325 in idea barrages
1.) The feminine of the Minotaur is the Clitaurus. You can find her after a heroic search through the Labiarynth. 2.) Sonic The Hedgehog on Deviantart is the blackhole’s event horizon of human di...
324 in idea barrages
1.) This is the secret code. Ask them “are you a time-traveler watching my rise to glory?” If they say “no” that’s their code word for “yes”. 2.) Fiction can tell truths in places fact fears to t...
323 in idea barrages
1.) There are only five words in “Saint Elmo’s Fire”. “Ba” “da” and “Saint Elmo’s Fire”. 2.) Whenever the term “basic bitch” is thrown around I wonder if there is an “acidic bitch” & if they ...
322 in idea barrages
1.) Had a dream where I was part of a 70s B-movie-style heist but afterward most of my take turned into crude & obvious forgeries. 2.) I’m still kind of disappointed that Vanilla Ice & Pa...
321 in idea barrages
1.) “That exterminator is KILLING it!” 2.) I am extraordinarily lucky that while I’m dealing with the fact that my surgery stitches popped and I have to be packed with gauze now, I’m supremely lu...
320 in idea barrages
1.) My “type” is smart girls, it just SEEMS like crazy girls maybe, because this jerk world tries to drive the smart girls crazy. 2.) You’re only one “r” away from “Chocolate Larva Cake” y’know. ...
case-by-case stasis in poetry
The weird thing about the past is those aren’t just stories about someone like me, those were actually me. Not someone who just looks like me or someone that I played once in a movie b...
319 in idea barrages
1.) At a comic book shows, refer to your hands as “Hunk Hands”. Go around claiming “Hunk Smash… the walls around your heart.” 2.) It’s about young superheroes during the French Revolution, it’s c...
stasis update in poetry
Really, the only technically valid status update is “I am currently hitting ENTER after writing a status update”. So when you get a Timehop photo on your facebook, next year wil...
318 in idea barrages
1.) Kiss me, I’m irate. 2.) Having one or two great ideas isn’t a thing. Anyone can do that. If you can generate lots of ideas, some good, you’ll be what’s valued. 3.) So when you get a Timehop p...
the los angeles poem in poetry
if I had the big money if I had the stupid money if I had the multi-millions so much that I had millions left over after the agents and lawyers and kids I’d hire a passel of x-ray technician...
317 in idea barrages
1.) Joining the Mile High club while landing can get you charged with in-descent exposure. 2.) Libertarian Inhumans read “Attilan Shrugged” a lot. 3.) Really, the only technically valid status up...
