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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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my twenties in poetry
she could shift from the steel gray of a thunderhead cloud to the bluish-white of a lightning strike in one half of an instant and so could her eyes and it thrilled me and it powered us a...
apr 24 in idea barrages
The emotional rollercoaster that’s the uncertainty of life in time of plague, man, I intellectually expected it but really-real ready for it, I was not. Everything, the fear, the little goods y...
prompt: toll, title: a rose by any other in misc. flash fiction
Dear Mr. Hemmingway, May we call you Ernest? Look, Ernest, we appreciate the work you’ve put in here but we’re going to have to pass on this manuscript as it currently exists. Your spare journali...
our trespasses in poetry
forgive us, gods and goddesses our performative woes and our too-fervent merriments our half-mad experiments our wine and song in hopes of drowning out the rhythm of our fears and our ...
apr 23 in idea barrages
Give yourself credit just for making it through a day, these days. A redneck warlock who lives in a weird hut by the swamp called Bubba Yaga. In L.A. you avoid contact with people by traffi...
it's a long way to apiary in poetry
nerdy birds have the prettiest feathers warmed against the biting winter trundle insulated by their charming fact bundles immune to the world’s shifting weathers so very fevered by the dr...
apr 22 in idea barrages
Nah, a “My Sharona” riff about Corona virus, that’s easy level parody, that’s Local Morning Zoo level. Get you a man who sings “Covid Covid Covid Covid Chameleon” to himself in the shower. If...
apr 21 in idea barrages
A single man walks up to the stage, steps behind the mic, says nothing, there is an awkward pause. Finally, he yells “SKA-VENGERS… SKA-SSEMBLE!” and twenty horn player appear behind him out of ...
apr 20 in idea barrages
Television shows, even web shows, that are recorded in chunks and stripped daily or weekly are so weird right now. It’s like there’s this… delayed world behind us that hasn’t shut down yet that...
I'll never get to know in poetry
within the swirl of her complexities she embodies the Hegelian Dialectic of Disney cartoon musical features sugar-sweet Snow White as thesis the wond’rous and terrible queen her equa...
apr 19 in idea barrages
I wonder if anyone ever said “I know, we’ll start a bar with a brass band every night and we’ll call it Horn Pub!” and then they had their heart broken when it was explained it would be forever...
apr 18 in idea barrages
The destruction and mess in the wake of a big arts projects is called “the craftermath”. No, the nerdiest Ben Folds parody possible would be of “Jackson Cannery” and be about a lich’s phylact...
apr 17 in idea barrages
The proper nickname for Bud Light is “Blight”. Store Brand Sugared Corn Flakes! Theeeeeeeeeey’re ADEQUATE! Isn’t cocaine tightly compressed to pass as a Christmas decoration really just blo...
prompt: duck, title: it beats the alternative in misc. flash fiction
The dinosaurs didn’t die out, not really, they just became the duck. Evolution doesn’t have a plan, it’s just whatever happens next and whoever has the genetic luck to accidentally survive. Our c...
apr 16 in idea barrages
A giant sea-hawk that attacks and devours terrible pop-country acts called The Grand Ole Osprey. The dog in Garfield was only nicknamed “Odie”. His real name is “Olive Drab” a nod to his exte...
apr 15 in idea barrages
If you had to create an erotic short story about the Sovereign Citizen movement, like, as a commission, I hope you at least give it the title LEGAL FRICTION. You know what would really cheer ...
apr 14 in idea barrages
If what’s best is currently impossible but you continue to plow all your energy into pursuing what’s best to the exclusion of all else, you are wasting your gift of life and making things worse...
apr 13 in idea barrages
We will sell soaps, lotions and burlesque supplies. We will be called BATH AND BAWDY WORKS. Being a Mets fan has given me a leg up in understanding American politics: you can never fall into ...
apr 12 in idea barrages
If you want an economic stimulus after the virus passes, nothing would get money flowing than the cancellation of all student debt. Now, unlike some people, I know it would never happen, you’d ...
the new normal in poetry
the new normal is the realization that there never was a normal there never could’ve been a normal there will never a normal for us again and that its for the best the...
apr 11 in idea barrages
Yes, I am singing a song about a particularly brutal vampire called “Vlad, Vlad Leroy Brown”. This is what we do during civilization’s collapse. No zombies to kill, just chillin’ inside, singin...
apr 10 in idea barrages
House be burning down, the far right and far left be arguing over the definition of fire while the rest run for water. A man blinded to reality by hateful greed and a man blinded to reality b...
apr 9 in idea barrages
“These Fig Newtons taste awful, like gun powder and K-Mart…” looks down, realizes they accidentally purchased Fig Nugents. Ain’t nobody wants to share your misery but they may wanna share you...
apr 8 in idea barrages
Nearly any curse can be improved by introducing the adjective “lemon-scented” before it. They no longer want to be called “drill sergeants” they now prefer “personnel trainers”. In the mi...
apr 7 in idea barrages
Don’t say “I haven’t had sex in years”. Say “I’m dry-aging my meat”. It sounds all classy cooking show host. Your sexy French Super Mario Brothers cosplay will be called Brigitte Birdo. May...
