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
Entries 5,131
Page 119 of 206
the class of ninety-seven in poetry
One good thing about social networking we all can agree on: it has negated the entire concept of class reunions. We don’t have to pretend that they’re fun just so we can learn what everyone i...
beautiful songs of love in poetry
Being single in your thirties is like losing a game of musical chairs several random times a day and having to deal with it. Every once in a while you can feel the music stop, look all t...
turn turn turn in poetry
Some times call for bards singing songs of love others call for skalds roaring praise for those who beat back monsters. Some times call for doctors to bind wounds other call for doctors...
a17 in idea barrages
1.) It is so hard making jokes right now, with Nazis plowing down people in the streets and the Kremlin-Agent-In-Chief approving of it. 2.) Things you admit when you’re old: other than vaguely un...
the ides of august barrage in idea barrages
1.) Print out the word “caution” 50,000 times. Shred the paper into confetti. Go outside. Throw caution to the wind. 2.) The only thing I got Cs in was penmanship. “Cursive, foiled again!” I was ...
birthday barrage in idea barrages
1.) In this nightmare, there was a formerly aristocratic family living in the ruins of a mansion and I tried to help them see through their madness in the rubble… and it turned out the thought-de...
THIS MACHINE in poetry
Ted Williams killed fascists. Hank Greenberg killed fascists. Jackie Robinson killed fascists. My grandpa killed fascists. Dwight Eisenhower killed fascists. John Kennedy killed fascists...
a13 in idea barrages
1.) What a mess I’d be if I wasn’t afraid, what a mess I am because I am. 2.) Maybe telling someone to go screw himself will lead him to coming into his own. 3.) A movie about Tweety’s endless to...
upon a renamed city park in poetry
folding chair at a summer fair grade school and town library on the green that’s in-between life will pass me right on by fifteen maybe twenty times generations before and hence faces u...
a12 in idea barrages
1.) Most people start seeing grey hairs after a surgery or giving birth or getting hit by lightning. The 2016 election is whitening my chin. 2.) Trying to look for upsides: atomic war during a So...
a11 in idea barrages
1.) One good thing about social networking we all can agree on: it has negated the entire concept of a class reunion. 2.) In reality, by putting “Fair Play” on his costume, Mr. Terrific would jus...
mr. in-between in poetry
why are you all so beautiful why are you all be too taken or too far away too young for me or too deep in responsibility why are you all be beautiful while I’m still just me today
blood moon in poetry
the blood moon lay so close to the horizon I could pluck it from the sky between my two fingers if I had someone to gift it to but I do not so you will keep your tides tonight so you will k...
a10 in idea barrages
1.) The best name for a Shakespeare-inspired porno is, of course, “As You Lick It”. 2.) I was so disappointed when I found out “robotripping” was just “drinking a lot of cough medicine”. I hoped ...
we do not forget in poetry
if it happened then it happened no matter what you say you may force us to forget at the barrel of a well-oiled gun you may legislate ignorance and see the truth-keepers shunned you may salt the ...
a9 in idea barrages
1.) Sarahah’s a great simulation of being famous in that everything you read will either be meaningless empty praise or non-constructive venom. 2.) My bucket list is just things I’d wanna eat a b...
as above as below in poetry
the feeling that you’re at a crossroads is right but hardly psychic you’re always at some crossroads or another, always making a choice you just don’t always have the eyes to see it or the time...
lost and found in poetry
sad Peter Pan, grass green and tan never gonna die, never gonna be a man what kind of a path what kind of plan could there be in making your stand between all of these shifting sa...
staggering risk in poetry
embrace risk life will kill you either way but you get to choose whether to die ignorant and fearful or fulfilled and joyful risk embrace living this life isn’t about not having fear in t...
a8 in idea barrages
1.) I stand by The Kaufman Reaction Paradigm: applause and hate are equally good signs at open mics, only tepid politeness is a sin. 2.) At your small business motivational workshop, take the sta...
the state of human progress in poetry
“Leif Eriksson!” the older Vikings laughed around the fire “Trying to colonize Vinland like an idiot!” “goddamn millennials.” “Tiberius sending Germanicus to fight Parthia.” the Romans s...
a7 in idea barrages
1.) Everytime you use the shortening JFC online, I read it as “Jesus Fried Chicken”. 2.) Realizing that your privileged identity isn’t the centre of the universe isn’t “performative wokeness”, it...
a6 in idea barrages
1.) “Iron Age,” the older Hittites clucked their tongues, “what, bronze isn’t good enough for these brats? Goddamn Millenials.” 2.) Why y’all gotta be beautiful/why y’all gotta be too taken or to...
a5 in idea barrages
1.) “Leif Eriksson,” the old Vikings said, “trying to colonize Vinland like an idiot. Goddamn Millennials.” 2.) If it happened, you may force us to forget, may salt the fields & boil the seas...
to the tune of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY in song parodies
if you’re shopping at Vermont Country Store from cat-a-logue or… just online don’t linger too long on night gowns for… that’s the weirdest boner of mine if you go to buy maple cream or so...
