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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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let's do this right in poetry
my nightmares are my true constant companions they follow me wherever I try to rest my weary head sometimes shot down in the streets sometimes drowned inside a capped-off waterslid...
if I only had (a villanelle) in poetry
everytime I nearly muster up the nerve I’m answered by that fear me descending down from tall tall trees demanding to be heard everytime I nearly answers with such certainty with such d...
even years later (a pantoum) in poetry
it isn’t just for your own mourning it’s worry for the living lost in grief it’s an act you fear they’re just performing through the occluding looking glass that is belief it’s worry for th...
mar 2 in idea barrages
Everyone thinks they are the exception, their family is the exception, their social group is their exception, their generation is the exception. One of the maddening things about how short a hu...
in the end in poetry
in the end we will all mostly be strung up on thick crosses hewn from the wildest of our dreams “perfect or nothing” as an ethos is the worst of all possible worlds all the effort with n...
mar 1 in idea barrages
Don Quixote wasn’t a tragic hero, he was a melodramatic idiot, pornsick on poorly written chivalric pennypress trash and he brought disaster wherever he went. He was a negative example. “Perf...
prompt: smudge, title: fair warning in misc. flash fiction
“Last we tried this, we went about it all wrong,” She told you from behind the desk in Her sleek minimalist office, “investing so much in one messiah to save you all at once, as much Myself as ma...
leap barrage in idea barrages
Eventually, they stopped investigating her being run over by a reindeer, the police declaring it a cold case. In Florida, the jingle goes “and like a good neighbor, Snake Farm is there.” “...
feb 28 in idea barrages
Do European retro gamers call the monsters in KID ICARUS “Aubergine Wizards” just to be contrary? Swap the lyrics of two songs w/ the same title & make it work. “Somebody That I Used To K...
feb 27 in idea barrages
You have been under the mistaken impression that Mario is his first name. Mario is his last name. His full name is Itsame Mario. If archaic slang for a handgun is a “heater” then we can total...
feb 26 in idea barrages
I’ll never understand the men who are thrilled by a woman’s beauty but intimidated by her intellect. Myself, I am enthralled enchanted revel in intellect but end up a coward, intimidated by bea...
feb 25 in idea barrages
A good way to get a baseball pun into your D&D game is naming an NPC “Feylord Gary”. A mandela effect where you remember it being called the mandala effect first, before the sands of caus...
feb 24 in idea barrages
I couldn’t get through more than 20 minutes of Picard (not awful, just boring) so a question: did they explain WHY they needed the labour of the Data-lite droids? Even for hazardous labour, lik...
feb 23 in idea barrages
Self-care is a way of proactively caring for those around you. If Michael Richards went vegan, he would be non-dairy Kramer. When Popeye butt-chugged to gain extra power, it was crammed spi...
feb 22 in idea barrages
Every two months, we should just get a mandatory four-day weekend that involves a 32-hour “healing coma” where we just get knocked out at midnight and wake up, eight AM two days later, actually...
feb 21 in idea barrages
As they say, build a new fake name for the next full moon and Facebook memes will beat a path to your door. Your album of shoegaze covers of children’s songs will be called My Buddy Valentine...
feb 20 in idea barrages
If you shorten “birthday” to “b-day” just remember that out loud it will sound like “bidet”. I guess I’ve built parodies around less than hearing “the sutures were wide open” in a Tom Petty s...
feb 19 in idea barrages
Whenever a youtuber says “links in the description” I hope there’s gonna be a big ol’ picture of a lynx and they always let me down. Maybe the problem with 21 Pilots is maybe that’s not enoug...
“things haven’t made sense in a long time” he said “that’s okay” she replied “things never made sense” “that’s just a veil time lifted from before your eyes” “now you know that things don...
bearing witness in poetry
when they say “bear witness” they really mean that you do bear it you are burdened with knowledge weighed down by understanding your shoulders sag under the ...
feb 18 in idea barrages
When they say “bear witness” they really mean it, you bear it. You are burdened with knowledge, your shoulders sag under the weight of experience. You grit your teeth and heft anyway. A Stone...
feb 17 in idea barrages
Is a sorcerer that officiates marriages a “wedlock”? A movie called ACTUAL EMPIRE RECORDS about the music section on the PX on the under-construction Death Star and instead of Rex Manning Day...
feb 16 in idea barrages
The old urban legend that some bubble gum had spider eggs is a hell of a platform for a parody of that Gwen Stefani song “Spider Webs”. When global warming floods the coastal states, will we ...
feb 15 in idea barrages
“Things haven’t made sense in a long time,” he said. “That’s okay,” she replied, “they never made sense, that was just a veil lifted from before your eyes.” “Oh.” Ships are only worthwhile if...
feb 14 in idea barrages
The exotic animal trafficker was tired of the hustle. It was time to cash in her chimps and get out. If you are a Canadian teen heart-throb and you don’t get the insult “HEY, LEAF GARRETT!” t...
