littlefallsmets ⋅ 39
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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apr22 in idea barrages
1.) The train at the end of the tunnel sees you as a darkness in the terrifying agoraphobic great wide open. 2.) The biggest lie in telling a story is pretending that you the teller are not there...
black tornado in poetry
retrieve your grimoire, Prospero sunken to the seabed as if some clipper-ship by tempest tossed descendant Milanesi money men ascend against you yet again more monstrous than any beast ...
apr21 in idea barrages
1.) Humanity’s greatest skill, what arguably “separates” us from other animals, is our ability to apt to what there is to adapt to, to change our tools, our thinking, ourselves to new situations....
apr20 in idea barrages
1.) The hungry mermaids waited for more with baited breath. 2.) The story of the emergency replacement Santa “Christmas Steve”. 3.) Somehow I got to 39 before realizing that the comic actor name...
apr19 in idea barrages
1.) Every week, someone comments on how they didn’t notice I was somewhere, something I actually take pride in, while I am not stealthy for a normal person, I’m very stealthy for a giant oaf, I d...
apr18 in idea barrages
1.) The awfulness of raisins is the market-inefficiency in baked-goods Moneyball. Take any food-stuff with raisins in it, remove the raisins and suddenly you have a delicious food undervalued for...
apr17 in idea barrages
1.) Woke up singing a song that mashed STP’s “Sex Type Thing” and the Popeye theme together, as predicated on the “I am what I am, I am” overlap and… decided to go back to sleep. 2.) A soft reboo...
apr16 in idea barrages
1.) The congressperson with the worst manners gets to chair the Inappropriations Committee. 2.) Why do they call it “the scared straight program” when they could call it “prehabilitation”? 3.) Th...
apr15 in idea barrages
1.) A parody of that r&b song Crossroads about crossbows? 2.) Coachella seems like such a roiling hell of affluence, effluence and influence that no matter how great the concerts were, it wou...
apr14 in idea barrages
1.) Meathead cop on the local news says fent-laced pot is a reason to not legalize marijuana, even though legal regulated marijuana is EXACTLY how you drive sketchy laced-weed out of the marketpl...
apr13 in idea barrages
1.) When you realize that youtube is a secret werewolf conspiracy because they all want you to “lycan subscribe”. 2.) I mean, you could write a parody of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” about the Disn...
Frank’s earliest memory was as a toddler of a mere fourteen, his species’ equivalent of three. His parents went off into the other room to talk to the local healers about his stunted growth, “he ...
apr12 in idea barrages
1.) “Will I still be myself when I am a butterfly,” the caterpillar asked “or will I be dead and the butterfly just takes my place?” as he entered his existential chrysalis. 2.) I had the dream a...
apr11 in idea barrages
1.) Sell giant omelettes under the name “omes”. Who’s gonna stop you? NOBODY. 2.) I feel like we could put together a pretty strong “90s Rock - Everyone In The Band But The One You Wanted To See”...
apr10 in idea barrages
1.) A parody of “Jolene” about how gross poutine is? “Poutine, poutine, pou-tine, POU-TINE, why use gravy to ruin good cheese fries?” 2.) A pro-vax rap about measles vaccinations to the tune of t...
apr9 in idea barrages
1.) Who hamburgles the hamburglemen? Ask not for whom the ham burgles. It burgles for thee. 2.) The Maltese Falcon hatched from an egg maguffin. 3.) The main problem with writing a parody of Tot...
apr8 in idea barrages
1.) Why call it Italian red wine when you can call it “Naples Syrup”? 2.) Put Schrodinger’s cat and Pavlov’s dog together and every time a bell rings, maybe you die. 3.) You will perform metal s...
apr7 in idea barrages
1.) Half-man, half-fish, all death. Jeffery Dahmermaid. 2.) I mean, yeah, we could write a parody of the Guess Who’s “American Woman” about Oktoberfest and call it Bavarian Woman. It would never ...
apr6 in idea barrages
1.) Your musical about a nun with synesthesia on the run from Nazis will be called THE TASTE OF MUSIC. 2.) The site was crawling with stock brokers, it was full investation, the place was doomed....
In general, humanity’s most prominent landmarks tend to fall into one of three broad categories: marvels of nature, marvels of engineering and marvels intentionally symbolizing a narrative the d...
apr5 in idea barrages
1.) If Persephone had thrown up in an attempt to not be trapped in the underworld by Hades, would that be “vomegranate”? 2.) Count Von Count’s here to do two things: kick ass and take numbers. An...
what you possess possesses you back in poetry
some of us have demons some of us have ghosts most of us possess both all of us have something but most of us have both I have a lot more ghosts than I do demons I guess but that’s not somethin...
mechanisms coping in poetry
coping with loneliness is like flexing a muscle for a while, it is just a normal thing you have to do sometimes but too long, it’s a cramp then a full charliehorse until the point you’ve been ...
you can easily craft a fiction out of all facts a fan wears his lucky socks every game from the first tip the team he roots for wins the championship the...
hoaxed stories in poetry
it was one if by land and was two if by sea second-time as a farce when at first tragedy so go the bald racist exceptionalist myths that once built America now return and burn...
