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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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mar 6 in idea barrages
I feel like there would be a pretty tight skeleton of a hip-pop or techno song built around chopping up and repeating the little “you lose” horn jingle from THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Getting sued b...
the middle path in poetry
revolution or Revelation they’ve trained you to love that apocalyptic taste sensation because your addiction to that elating conflating intoxication is paradoxically their best tool ...
mar 5 in idea barrages
Ollie calls the garbagemen “leftovers thieves”. This is the only one of his barks I’ve been able to translate but it is glaringly obvious. Let’s re-make the Stallone arm-wrestling film OVER T...
mar 4 in idea barrages
Your film about the rivalry between an established demon and a young gifted upstart demon will be called “Asmodeus”. You could do worse than a Queen parody about ridiculous conspiracy theorie...
exceptional isms in poetry
rise? Rome didn’t fall in a day either fall? it fell instead as road by road fell bridge by bridge and town by town some places didn’t know for generations that it ended that the store was n...
the continental divide in poetry
psychosis is outcome-based doesn’t care about process at best it just pretends to care about the hows no, psychosis only just wants to be heard loud everything is merely a to...
the slings and arrows of the outrageously fortunate in poetry
in an after-life I’d love to watch people try to explain away their rage, prejudice and pride by protesting “but Saint Pete, I was only being ironic!” I’d love to see the look on that face ...
mar 3 in idea barrages
“I love your decorated recycling bin!” “Thanks, yeah, it’s a nice conservation piece. “ I’m not good at tabletop roleplaying yet but I did put a bunch of angry bees to sleep with fog cloud so...
as you like it in poetry
nothing ruins happiness more than a preconceived notion of what you think your happiness is supposed to exactly be allow yourself surprises allow yourself to be surprised expectation ...
I will never know but still I walked in of course I did I know what was believed to be and I will never know but I can still imagine and I can understand either way
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...
