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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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1.) Always refer to a rap battle as a “beat-off”. 2.) Even when there’s something actual to fear, they’d rather make one up anyway, it’s easier to control. 3.) She didn’t like being called “obses...
Everything wants to explode. These cities, these trees, there’s you, there’s me, there’s the very atoms in your bones. Everything wants to explode. The bad news is: no...
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1.) Every commercial on the digital side-channels looks like a Tim and Eric parody of an ad. “Brain Fizz”. Jeeeeeeesus. 2.) As a big Built To Spill fan, I would like to be referred to as a member...
lemons (re-worked) in poetry
when life gives you lemons complain how much you hate lemonade when life gives you lemons demand to see the manager because you ordered oranges and goddamn it in America the c...
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1.) Local pride is awesome but regional pride is even better. If there’s gas in the car, we can get some REAL cool stuff going! 2.) The dog was so happy to see Mom after two weeks, he literally p...
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1.) A hanging collection of open-toed shoes, a sandalabra. 2.) Whole conspiracy theories can start with one idiot mishearing a word once. Contrails as “chemtrails”. That’s literally all it takes....
There’s a painting called “the treachery of images” it’s just a realistic painting of a pipe with the caption “ceci n’est pas une pipe” which just means “this is not a pipe” in French...
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1.) When facing a resource drought in Zelda, yell “Thanks Nobombsa!” It won’t help but it also will. 2.) I tried explaining the squirrel to the dog as “a tree bunny”. The analogy I believe escape...
the dog’s messed-up but we’re buddies. if he wasn’t messed up and I wasn’t messed up we never woulda met so it’s good that we’re imperfect. the dog shits himself all the time rar...
the heart is a junkie in poetry
Look, actually, fools fall in love because we initially slip in a small puddle of lust and momentum carries us into the abyss. The h...
tune of YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET in song parodies
I went down to McDonalds about ten-thirty-five I was barely just awake then I was barely just alive you know the best stuff there is the breakfast so I drove up to the mic ...
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1.) Michael Sam didn’t get one full chance. Tim Tebow is on Chance 458. It is possible the NFL is total rubbish. 2.) If you give up a little of your hope, they’ll take a little bit more every day...
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1.) Pretend to confuse the words “specist” and “specious” to mess with people. 2.) The seed pod of an exotic orchid steeped in liquor and shipped to us in little bottles like patent medicine is s...
the joy of obscurity in poetry
Through obscurity, you escaped a beat-down into bland product or an exaggeration into self-parody. Through obscurity, you retained your soul. Through obscurity, you remained true to ...
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1.) When a flour clump comes along YOU MUST WHISK IT, if your bechamel ain’t strong YOU’VE GOT TO WHISK IT 2.) A hipster’s favourite comedy show is “Def Comedy Preserves”. 3.) The next step down ...
you can’t control outcomes but you can control your thoughts you can’t control outcomes but you can control your thoughts you can’t control you can’t control outcomes but...
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....
