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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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feb18 in idea barrages
1.) Willie Mays, once an all-time great, lost trying to play in the outfield because he didn’t know that two years ago was the time to go away. It happened before I was even born but the image is...
Hard enough being the last of your kind, that’d be burden enough for Frank, to be certain he was the last sasquatch on Earth, but only being mostly sure, that’s what hit him hardest. To wake up a...
feb17 in idea barrages
1.) Then there are the days in being low-carb where you just keep hearing the beginning to “Wake Me Up Before You Go” except as “CINNABON, CINNABON, CINNABON”. 2.) About the only way to make SHAR...
feb16 in idea barrages
1.) If the staff of a Salvo knows you as “the guy who buys weird stuff” you must be doing something right. 2.) In Hollywood they put your hands and feet in wet cement when they think you’ve done ...
feb15 in idea barrages
1.) Maybe you’ve mistaken power over others for a freedom of your own. Maybe you’ve mistaken a lack of responsibility to help your fellow humans for a freedom of your own. They look like freedom ...
try losing instead in poetry
the people who returned from trouble as shiny heroes are not the ones to ask about the horrors of world they just lucked out and didn’t see the shit in full the ones who came home wo...
feb14 in idea barrages
1.) The dog’s golf nickname is “Fuzzy Smeller”. 2.) If Golden Girls came out today, you know there’d be a joke in there referring to sex as “getting a little Medicare Part D”. 3.) Luthor stands ...
feb13 in idea barrages
1.) A pick-up line that’d only work w/ someone who really just wants to have a wedding would be “I’ve forgotten your last name, can I give you mine?” but w/ that person, it’d work really well. Ki...
fe12 in idea barrages
1.) If you give out Necco Wafers dressed as Tim Curry, it is a chalky horror picture show. 2.) Entropy and Order are the Thermodynamic Duo. 3.) A great name for a book about the way media forces...
feb11 in idea barrages
1.) After Soviet frat party, shame walks you. 2.) Fan fiction where the “that” in “Anything For Love” turns out to be “foot stuff” and then Quentin Tarantino swoops in to steal the poor rejected ...
feb10 in idea barrages
1.) A show about antique pickers who dress like Chippendales’ dancers on hunts called MACHO MEN’S RANDY SALVAGE. 2.) (1.) Who is the weirdo who uses facebook as their primary video viewing servic...
fe9 in idea barrages
1.) So many of our issues come down to economic Stockholm Syndrome but acknowledging it would offend the hostage takers and ruin their ransom so here we are, fighting over crumbs instead of disco...
remington way in poetry
Ilion New York where the streets were paved with blood literally paved by blood money once every third street named Remington the gun factory at its beating heart for so very many years that ...
fe8 in idea barrages
1.) Gertrudestein was the author, her baffling support of fascist governments was Gertrudestein’s monster. 2.) If you have to go to the electric chair, request the last meal of a bag of popcorn k...
fe7 in idea barrages
1.) It’s amazing they’re ending BIG BANG THEORY after 53 seasons. Did you know that nerds are fey and obsessive? Big Bang Theory taught us this for 107 years straight, first starting as the first...
fe6 in idea barrages
1.) There are very few people I would wish to burden with the terrifying complex nightmares I have when sick. Endless cycles of suffering and reality breaking down, only for the next level of rea...
fe5 in idea barrages
1.) The feminine of “Molemen” isn’t “Molewomen”, it is “Molelasses”. 2.) Joseph threatened to kick her out unless the father was God. “It’s Yahweh or the highway!” 3.) When the Super Bowl ends, ...
the winter up here is like getting a baby chick for Easter the first snow of November is like “OH IT’S SO TINY AND CUTE” but by February it’s this weird ugly thing that pecks at the w...
fe4 in idea barrages
1.) My current online journal (this one!) just turned 5, has over 3000 posts, over 1000 poem rough drafts (200 of which are decent) 150 song parodies (30 of which are decent) 100 short stories (2...
reality, a vinyl record spun so many times it hiccups pops and skips, scratches in the dips betraying the circuitous motion that it plays endless inadvertent repetitions, back to back ...
first night stand in poetry
the two best ways to first try stand-up are either (a.) in front of strangers you will never see again or (b.) in front of friends who won’t judge you if you’re terrible the first time ...
fe3 in idea barrages
1.) I don’t need tattoos or piercings, I have rejection letter paper cut scars on the inside, crosshatching a Mona Lisa inside my rib cage and nothing done to my outsides could ever hope to compa...
with or without you in poetry
if you believe in anything beyond this mayfly short life I’m not saying there isn’t or is don’t believe that you can worship it with pretty words or sacrifice or prayers let alone by having...
fe2 in idea barrages
1.) If you asked me “what band would the NFL get for the Super Bowl to be the most aggressively inoffensive non-political thing possible?” I would answer “Maroon 5 can’t still be a thing so, like...
prompt word: mellifluous, title: all apologies in flash fiction
He’d been a rock star once. Not just a “famous musician” or a “celebrity” but an actual rock star. He’d played loud, he’d been young and brash and stood for things or, anyway, at least had tried ...
