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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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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 ...
48 in idea barrages
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...
47 in idea barrages
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...
46 in idea barrages
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 ...
43 in idea barrages
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...
41 in idea barrages
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 ...
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...
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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...
