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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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aug 14 in idea barrages
They’re exactly like Lunchables except Mitch McConnell’s face is printed on every cracker and they’re just called Punchables. Two aging disgraced bumbling cops take over security at a trendy ...
no no, it's just my allergies in poetry
when this passes if this passes I will feel naked without a mask on when this passes if this passes I will hesitate before I embrace in public and I apologize in advance when...
a modern proposal in poetry
we cannot say with any certainty Rachel Ray has eaten human flesh of course that would be absurd unprovable libelous defamation we have no proof TV’s Rachel Ray has feasted upon the lo...
when it stops in poetry
I dreamed of a record found up in the attic when played it looked just like teevee static which hasn’t existed since they killed analog but something was calming in that random fog grooves sp...
aug 13 in idea barrages
I hope Elton John and Billy Joel have a falling out and Elton writes a diss track called POCKET MAN about how Billy is so tiny he can keep him in his pants with his wallet and cellphone. If y...
aug 12 in idea barrages
To humanize Tom Brady only brings the human race down further, it does the rich little privilege machine manlet no favours. In an all-fat-guy KISS cover band, I claim the nom-de-stage “Peter ...
prompt: star, title: the daily stumble in misc. flash fiction
It could be better, it could be worse for Jemma Taylor, M.F.A. While most of her old grad-school comrades slave away as untenured adjunct professors, she fell into writing a gimmicky series of pa...
aug 11 in idea barrages
Don’t call them “dog breeders” they prefer the term “red rocket scientists”. I sure hope that Larry the Cable Guy’s tailor is called Cary the Label Guy. Wanting the world to be a better pla...
aug 10 in idea barrages
You gotta play reverse psychology games with the universe sometimes, I think. Call your experimental aircraft “the Hubris”. Dare the gods to look too on-the-nose. This Grimes/Musk thing will ...
aug 9 in idea barrages
You don’t get many chances to say “we took this haunted house and made it a haunted home” but when you do, you have to take it. The current Song For Ollie is to a Rolling Stones tune and is s...
aug 8 in idea barrages
Wishing each other Happy Hondadays is just a small part of the larger War on Chryslermas. A “president” refusing to mask because feigning strength in a time of crisis is more important than l...
prompt: star, title: arts & silences in misc. flash fiction
The word is not the thing, of course, Korzybski, but the hope is that the word can at least gesture toward it. We use our words like B.B. pellets at a carnival shooting range, where one could nev...
aug 7 in idea barrages
Ideas had sitting with the dog in the Price Chopper parking lot: if you were performing “Teenage Wasteland” live with a fiddler, why not segue straight into “Istabul Not Constantinople” after? ...
aug 6 in idea barrages
Unable to tell whether the bite marks were from a werewolf or vampire, the coroner simply wrote “Died of Supernatural Causes”. Getting his head smashed by Satan like a watermelon, every hour ...
There’s a line on Figure Eight by Elliott Smith, his spirit mentioned previous, that goes “Got a foot in the door, God knows what for”. When first I listened, I thought it just clever songwriting...
aug 5 in idea barrages
We cannot say that Rachel Ray has EATEN human flesh, that would be absurd, but she is rich and powerful enough where it is almost certain that it has been offered to her in all seriousness at l...
aug 4 in idea barrages
If you remember the GARFIELD comic strip being good, you are confusing it with the television shows, which were often good. The strip was at best bizarre. It is a flaw of our minds that we conf...
aug 3 in idea barrages
The optimal Muppet-based Van Halen parody would be Panama/Animal, yeah? A documentary on the state of pornographic film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic called THE NUDE NORMAL. Were Al...
aug 2 in idea barrages
Singing “Head Like A Hole” with “Doug Funnie” instead of “God Money” won’t do you any material good but it’ll put a smile on your face. A ham sandwich double-fried in a tempura-panko kinda cr...
aug 1 in idea barrages
This Christmas, after the third wave of the plague, when moving the Elf on the Shelf don’t forget to use hand santatizer. A head canon where the Russian stereotype boxer and the Italian stere...
july 31 in idea barrages
We just crossed the point, long past where they thought they could ignore a plague with magical thinking where they’ve finally decided it’s real but if they let enough people die, they can call...
prompt: bark, title: driven to distraction in misc. flash fiction
You must understand, I felt like a failure. Disappointed and lonely, didn’t know what to do. I’d accomplished all these things, made all these things but all I could feel was anxious emptiness. I...
july 30 in idea barrages
“I find the term Public Defecation so limiting,” she said, “I prefer to say that I… void where prohibited.” A hippie vampire called Count Erkultur. Olive’s cousin who is always trying to ro...
july 29 in idea barrages
You are being carried piggyback through the city streets by your leather slave at high speeds. You leap off while he continues barreling downhill. You run alongside him, now, while your crew ch...
we owe a lot to the darkness despite how we always degrade it assign it to negatives treat it like a hell we owe a lot to the darkness we go in the darkness to sleep we go in the darkness...
