littlefallsmets ⋅ 45 ⋅
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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ja23 in idea barrages
1.) Branding their Halloween baked good “Boo Cakies” may not have been the best idea. 2.) You gotta take weight loss the same way Genghis Khan took Asia, steppe by steppe. 3.) Remember: serfdom r...
ja21 in idea barrages
1.) Good is better than perfect. Perfection has no room to change, no room to grow. Without change, in a generation, the old perfect will be evil & cruel because perfect gets stuck in its mom...
ja20 in idea barrages
1.) One of the things that I really loved about the TRAMONTANE CAFE’s tenth anniversary in retrospect was the care Robin and Garrett put into making sure the full spectrum of the Tram’s creative ...
you were cool in poetry
history’s empires rise and fall great queens and kings now forgotten except their names on bathroom walls receipts for wheat stamped into clay all that remains for us...
silicon-based organism in poetry
no, keeping a facial recognition scan of yourself inside the cellphone at your hip is a great idea it’s not like any nineteen year old Russian hacker could get that in about five minutes of...
virtue signalling in poetry
I don’t give a damn if someone is being virtuous to be seen for it or if they’re being virtuous in saintly anonymity as long as you’re being virtuous you can “virtue signal” all you want, I sa...
stage fright in poetry
I like to say that I never get “stage fright” because I’ve always been comfortable on stage I’ve never been worried about being seeing me oh sure, I’m afraid that my material is awful ...
ja18 in idea barrages
1.) Now that Tram 10 is in the books, now I gotta get some new material rolling for Flash Fiction Wednesday and Utica Poets Thursday. Hey, at least now only my legs hurt and not my back AND my le...
keyword "training" title "outshined" in misc. flash fiction
Proxima and Rigil, two of the sisters Centauri, two of the closest stars to our very own sun, they like to watch us from afar sometimes, up there in the night sky. It isn’t night to them, of cour...
ja16 in idea barrages
1.) It’s a good thing I didn’t see the Lord of the Rings movies in theatre because at the end, when they left for Valinor The Undying Lands, I would’ve wanted to announce “THE ELVISH HAVE LEFT TH...
ja14 in idea barrages
1.) I agree that anything worth doing is worth doing well, I will merely add that… upon consideration, there are relatively few things in this life actually worth doing. When something matters, I...
ja13 in idea barrages
1.) YODA. You Only Do, Always. 2.) She didn’t like saying she “had diarrhea” she preferred to say she was “freestyle scatting”. 3.) “Is that a terrible teevee dinner?” “Beef Banquet. Bingo.” 4.) ...
ja11 in idea barrages
1.) Last night’s nightmare, I got in a minor fenderbender and it somehow managed to ruin my entire life, putting weight back on and everything. My nightmares are not subtle. 2.) Have I made my pe...
keyword "Funambulist" title "blinking lights (for you)" in misc. flash fiction
Here we are in the limbo between our flights that we call Layover, neither here nor there but more or less exactly where you’re supposed to be for now. Here we are in San Francisco and yet n...
ja8 in idea barrages
1.) I still don’t know what a Cardi B is. I think this may be one of the good things about being closer to Old. 2.) If your snowman is a rapper and has eyes made out of coal, your snowman is the ...
it’s not about how hard you worked not about the money that you made not about how many people saw it it’s about putting your truth out there put your truth out there, goddamn it the res...
it must be terrible to love the wings at Hooters but hate the sexual objectification baked on in doomed to love that one particular hot sauce and there you are in Boobieroom eating ch...
ja7 in idea barrages
1.) Your company making boutique bras for the modestly-chested will have the slogan “Support Small Business”. 2.) Wishy-washy Kylo Ren, taking so long to Sith or get off the pot. 3.) Remember in ...
how many times have you had to lie to your lover “NO, DON’T LOOK AT MY COMPUTER!” closing it quickly “I’M NOT LOOKING AT PORN, I’M… BUYING YOU A PRESENT!” “DON’T LOOK,” you stammer, “...
better than we've done in poetry
maybe if we just all got frequent full-body massages like our pets maybe we wouldn’t start wars and invent scam ride-sharing services maybe we’d just stretch out and bat at rays of sunshi...
safety warnings in poetry
millennials, I make this old man pledge to you: I will never make fun of you for having a tattoo but I reserve the right to make fun of bad tattoos so you might as well either get none or ...
there’s a CBGB’s branded restaurant at the Newark airport someone bought the name after they tore down the real thing used it to sell vinyl records and overpriced chicken salads to the rubes jus...
we gather ‘round the airport charger station much as our predecessors did around the fire electricity’s an artificially scarce thing, sure but it makes our flicker-boxes shine the same s...
better right than real in poetry
every conspiracy theory started with some desperate person deciding their view of the world must matter more than the facts of the given situation when acknowledging shared real...
ja6 in idea barrages
1.) I choose to believe Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein was named after Blucher Ave in the Valley. I have no proof but this is my official head-canon. 2.) If these dark days don’t make you lon...
