littlefallsmets ⋅ 46 ⋅
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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oct 7 in idea barrages
It’s a history of Scandinavian languages called “From start to Finnish”. If only instead of “Last Blood” they had called it “Rambo Number Five” I could’ve written you an Oscar Best Song winne...
oct 6 in idea barrages
Selfishness, survival of the fittest, the sociopathy of individual focus may have gotten us out of the trees and caves but after that point, everything else was empathy, cooperation, collective...
oct 5 in idea barrages
Maybe the REAL Cotton Eyed Joe was the friends we made along the way. If I was the receptionist to a palm reader, I would always answer the phone “I know who you are.” I like that the guy f...
the end of your broadcast day in poetry
in our youth, it was all analog hissing clouds of snowy flight random-generation from the very background static of the universe whispering sweet nothings by night distant lullabyes of gray a...
the gardener's lot in poetry
from the gardener’s perspective she trims and she prunes the roses to spread and preserve their beauty holding them back so that what remains can shine to the blossoms however the gardener ...
better than nothing in poetry
the fear that she’d see your love as a dread millstone about her neck you know, yourself as a heavy load dragging her down from dreams far less possible but far more exciting still than a...
put it all on red in poetry
America as a low-rent casino hazy and crowded and loud no clocks to tell what time it is distractions just everywhere and at every turn a promise how you will be the one luck...
love and luck in poetry
what’s easy is probably fake or it’s momentary at best and for better or for worse luck gets you there but after that you gotta figure out how to stay and every day older is a day less worth...
oct 4 in idea barrages
“So why are we going to start World War 3?” “We gotta defend Saudi Arabia from Iran, bro! 9/11, bro!” “Wait, who were all the funders and most of the suicide bombers in 9/11, again?” “Saudi Ara...
oct 3 in idea barrages
Why call it “loss of virginity” when you could call it “initial pubic offering” instead? The fear they’d see your love as a millstone about their neck, you know, yourself as a heavy load, dra...
oct 2 in idea barrages
A distant future where the estate of Sasha Baron Cohen sells the rights to the Borat character for the purposes of selling Borax. “Clean clothes. Nice!” A future archeologist finds a Keurig m...
oct 1 in idea barrages
If I was a narcotics cop, I would train “undercover” drug sniffing dogs that aren’t, like, henched-out German Shepards but, like, nervous little poodles that no one suspected of being a narc. C...
sept 30 in idea barrages
In my head-canon, the redhead from the B-52s is the daughter of Miss Yvonne from Pee Wee’s Playhouse. I hate when folk dunk on thinking Fahrenheit 451 was about censorship when “Bradbury said...
sept 29 in idea barrages
An elderly GNR cover band called DNR. Mantras are really just trance formers. The Bills being better than the Giants or the Jets is like being the smartest guy at a Trump rally. Technically...
sept 28 in idea barrages
What’s easy is probably fake, momentary at best. For better or for worse, luck probably gets you there but after that, you gotta figure out how to stay. And every day older is a day less luck i...
These are the times that make monsters of men and saints of a handful of sinners. These are the times, again and again we all lose if we try to be “winners”. These are the times of frien...
one of the few choices you get in poetry
Fear makes you stupid. If I could chisel any one phrase into immortal stone as humanity’s final epitaph that’s what I would engrave. Fear makes you stupid. Fear makes you stup...
the future in poetry
Some cast i-Ching, some consult cards, some watch stars. I guess I dabble in frequomancy. I hit scan on the radio dial and listen for songs from from ghosts speaki...
with autumn closing in in poetry
on late summer nights like these still blazing hot in the sunshine cooler but still humid in the evenings where the loneliness of my singledom really kicks in as fucking melancholy th...
the irony of the E-Z Pass program supposedly making all of these highway miles less of a hassle a line of three tractor-trailers in their dedicated convenience lane with automation delay only ...
breakdown lanes in poetry
on a long enough timeline with infinite cars eventually every roadside would be checkered to the brim with new flowers and old crosses with grievances tragedies emotional scars endless memoria...
more than a few in poetry
no… in fact… have regrets go and have tons of them ome without regrets is living like an entirely un-self-examined life possibly glacially boring or even worse yet they a...
sept 27 in idea barrages
Hacks wanna make it look easy. The true masters aren’t afraid to let it look as hard as it actually is. Is there like a theremin vocoder combination? A theracodoer? Take your memories back,...
sept 26 in idea barrages
Have regrets. Have tons of them. A person without regrets is either unselfexamined or boring. Or they’re just pretending to seem tough. I have more regrets than stars I can see in the night sky...
sept 25 in idea barrages
Sometimes I’ll see couples holding hands in a weird intense way before a meal in a restaurant and assume I’ve stumbled onto a proposal but it turns out they’re just praying thanks or grace or w...
