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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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...
keyword: tolerance, title: doomed to repetition in misc. flash fiction
It started innocuously enough but the lead-up to a war always begins a great distance away from where the situation ends in bloodshed. The Great War didn’t start with the assassination of some ro...
sept 24 in idea barrages
No, radio stations, holding onto the terrible wacky morning shows pumped in by satellite but ditching live local DJs is the OPPOSITE of saving your business model, even if it is cheaper in the ...
sept 23 in idea barrages
Your mind is not your brain but it is in there somewhere. You are not your body but you are in there somewhere. Debates like diabetes, I would rather starve myself, I would rather take unplea...
sept 22 in idea barrages
Late summer nights like these, hot by day, cooler but still humid in the evenings, where the loneliness of singledom really kicks in. The crickets or frogs or whatever sing, wish I could share ...
sept 21 in idea barrages
You will write your Goonies fan-fiction under the pseudonym “Chunk Tingle”. There was, in the middle 1940s, an English teacher at Berkeley High School who taught both Philip K Dick and Ursula...
the bear went over the mountain in poetry
it’s difficult enough to be passed over for someone or something when it is actually in some concrete way better than you stronger faster smarter richer younger older bigger smaller whate...
sept 20 in idea barrages
If Elvis had faked his death, he’s surely dead by now either way, the same as Hitler, the same as JFK, if there were aliens in Area 51, they’re surely long gone, dead or alive, Paul’s still wri...
sept 19 in idea barrages
Happy challahdays, happy challahdays, may rich eggy breads keep bringing, happy challahdays to you. “Lego” is Swedish for “caltrop”. I want Neil Young to meet a Vulcan just so he would resp...
sept 18 in idea barrages
A dual purpose rolling pin and bowling pin called “the meta-pin”. A butterfly is just a moth with a P.R. flack on retainer. Only today did I realize that the Blockbuster Video logo looked o...
sept 17 in idea barrages
The Marvel hero Daredevil cannot see, the Marvel hero Echo cannot hear. We are only three more heroes away from a juggernaut of a vigilante team called Senseless Violence. “We’ve heard legend...
sept 16 in idea barrages
Sugar We’re Going Down Swinging by Fall Out Boy is the exact same song as Creed My Sacrifice and… it makes sense. Fear makes you stupid. If I could chisel any phrase into stone as humanity’s ...
sept 15 in idea barrages
The irony of EZ pass, a line of 3 tractors waiting for ease while I in my station wagon claim my ticket from a human and keep moving on. If it is possible that your action will be appreciated...
keyword: loose, title: it's a life in misc. flash fiction
“That’s impossible,” Phil heard a familiar man’s voice saying, despite being nearly asleep, “that can’t be me.” “It is, Philip,” he heard a second voice, unmistakably female, authoritative and ye...
sept 14 in idea barrages
Your band will cover Imagine Dragons songs on renaissance instrumentation and call itself IMAGINE DUNGEONS. No, the best name for a rapper in 2019 would be “Jung Milwaukee”. If WATERWORLD ...
we are all of us just complicated bundles of interiorized narrative both foisted upon us and alternately self-invented we are all of us just stories briefly bound to t...
sept 13 in idea barrages
Don’t call them “The Spice Girls”, that’s disrespectful, they prefer “The Bene Geserit Sisterhood”. I’m sure the car brand “KIA” means something in some other language but I, personally, woul...
theme: blossom, title: worse than a monkey's paw in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
The Magic Castle is real. Even if you think I’m just some crackpot ranting about sasquatches, go on the internet, look it up. The internet is, after all, the footnotes to everything. The footnote...
