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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.
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sept20 in idea barrages
You know though, if the Trojans HAD looked a gift horse in the mouth… It’s a shame how many people would appreciate overlaying the lyrics to Thela Hun Ginjeet over the tune of Eleanor Rigby, ...
jefferson hill and back in poetry
I walk a little blind dog for about a block and a half the one way then the same back and he pisses just about every five yards or so he marks his territory he doesn’t know that the...
sept18 in idea barrages
Morgan Freeman’s character in ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES was named Azeem. #TheMoorYouKnow Often, super hero films are forced into dark gritty mode, not because that’s what works for the s...
sep 16 in idea barrages
Developing your writing is like building furniture on a deserted island. Before you can even have the tools to construct a bed, you have to make the simple tools you’ll use to create the more c...
way way up there in poetry
I just don’t understand why those two random guys were so goddamn excited about seeing a bird or a plane Superman, sure, I get that dude flying around in tights but “Look! Up ...
The cliché, of course, would be that a farm-girl from the outskirts of Cobleskill would adore the outdoors experience while her wife, the city kitty from deepest Westchester, would abhor it. But ...
sept14 in idea barrages
A D&D campaign about the aftermath of The Great Modron March would be totally post-modron. The collective term for fifty-two Mondays is “a Case of the Mondays”. If you really think abou...
a new idea for a job in poetry
maybe I should invent a job called “impersonal trainer” where you just yell into crowds or into a camera: HEY, YOU SHOULD EXERCISE I DON’T KNOW WHICH MUSCLES OR WH...
sept12 in idea barrages
You will cover Lou Reed’s METAL MACHINE MUSIC on actual industrial machinery and you will call your band “Computer Numerical Control Music Factory”. Harvey Dangerfield got no respect for bein...
the long waltz in poetry
when we arrived at this masquerade we couldn’t just leave someone already paid over time, we learned to dance our lives away to someone else’s beat by the ti...
sept10 in idea barrages
You know, my generation is so jangled up in nostalgia, we probably have more kids named “Gosalyn” from Darkwing Duck than the actual name “Rosalyn” her name was a comic corruption upon. I’m not...
sept 8 in idea barrages
A nun-fetish themed Only Fans account called “Thots & Prayers”. I want Southwest Salads and McWraps back. YOU MADE ME DIABETIC, MCDONALDS, YOU OWE ME LOWER CARB OPTIONS. YOU OWE ME. A b...
prompt: role, title: wrestling with shadows in misc. flash fiction
I wasn’t trying to acquire my one-and-only no-doubt concussion, but if something seems once-in-a-lifetime, I lurch into its wake and see what happens. My existence is mostly long stretches of dul...
I'm Sorry, Mister Williams Junior in poetry
I’m sorry, Mister Williams Junior I am indeed not ready for some football I am in no shape for any sort of Monday night party It has been a really long day of work and Tomorro...
sep 6 in idea barrages
There was never a porno parody of Jim Varney’s oeuvre titled ERNEST GOES TO TOWN and we’re all slightly lessened for this fact. Would a tasting of New Zealand’s beers be a flight of the Conco...
sept 4 in idea barrages
All I’m saying is that The Butthole Surfers’ song “Pepper” ripped so hard that no one else should be able to use that title any more. I’m looking at you, Death Cab for Cutie. See also Elliott S...
sept 2 in idea barrages
The procedure had been botched by an unanticipated complication, the patient had nearly bled out on the table. The oral surgeon had a panic attack, balled up on the floor of his office, until a...
everything I could never be in poetry
I’m not a provider she was right her stepford montauk mcmansion mother was right I am not a provider I was never a provider I will never be a provider and not j...
“It’s actually thrill,” she said. “What?” her wife responded incredulously, “what’s thrill?” “That song you were mocking on the radio. The lyric goes… Long After the Thrill of Living Is Gone.” “...
august 31 in idea barrages
I want to watch the characters in a Fast and Furious movie battle a vampire named Carjackula. And I want Carjackula to win. When you use terms of violence, even in metaphor, eventually someon...
august 29 in idea barrages
“You can’t masturbate when your hands are in prayer” said the religious pamphlet. “I take that as a challenge of my prowess!” he thought. Writing while feeling maudlin is a lot like grocery s...
august 27 in idea barrages
I think about a generation who practiced duck & cover in school in fear of being nuked by another country, now not giving a damn about kids getting shot in those same schools because owning...
aug 25 in idea barrages
McNugget dip, straight from the sweet and sour source. (to the tune of GNR’s Double Talkin’ Jive) Bubble poppin’ game, get the money Bubble Popper, cuz I got no more Tetris If you only beli...
prompt: object / title: delivery in fifty years or less in misc. flash fiction
I had always kind of thought the Herkimer Pizza-Hut would manage to survive the heat-death of the universe. Cock-a-roaches and tardigrades collecting Personal Pan Pizzas from the Parents As Readi...
aug 23 in idea barrages
A horror movie set against the backdrop of the Trojan War that somehow involves the line “the call is coming from INSIDE the horse!” I have never watched “Ted Lasso” and I do not know if “Jas...