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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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oct 13 in idea barrages
Finding a piece of hay in a needle stack is even harder, even if you wear thick gloves. The radio station said it was “welcoming” Incubus to a local performance venue and I was like, really? ...
oct 12 in idea barrages
Doctor Frankenstein clearly mistook the meaning of the team-building exercise. When a comic book series seismically alters the status quo, I’m less interested in what’s new. more interested i...
healing doesn’t invalidate your trauma your healing validates the fact that you somehow survived don’t feel guilty that you made it to now you made it to now that’s goddamned amazing invalidat...
oct 11 in idea barrages
They are maximizing the monetization of your fandom by weaponizing it against you, flipping your head canon around, pulling the cord and watching you explode into a chunky salsa of word of mout...
keyword: loathe, title: the last temptations in misc. flash fiction
Three A.M. I’m awake again. The prescriptions in my blood need the toilet more than my brain needs the sleep, I guess. Stumbling back through kitchenette, the cat jumps upon the counter and says ...
oct 10 in idea barrages
I was into polyphasic sleep back when they called it “waking up from nightmares every three hours”. If you discuss old arcade games long enough, you can eventually get to the pop cultural ref...
oct 9 in idea barrages
If you are engaged to marry someone for their money, is she or he your financee? Is Batman’s costume Waynescoating? Regrets, once seered roughshod in my flesh like scars, now thrown into th...
oct 8 in idea barrages
When the natural gas explosion killed twenty, Hank Hill was found guilty on charges of “accessory to propane”. “I’m not into dry-humping or anything like it,” she said, “frottage is mostly ju...
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...
