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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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years later in poetry
did finally listening to the voices finally make the voices stop? did they make you hook up with a lawyer did they make you marry to a cop? does your mother’s voice still tell you you’re too...
still we barrage, I guess in idea barrages
1.) Dr. Strange would never use his powers to re-unify shredded cheese, that would just be degrating. 2.) You can only shop at the Enterprise’s Duty-Free shop when they’re not at warp speeds, you...
american tune in poetry
Who am I if I am a member of this racist homophobic misogynist nation? Who are we if enough of our fellow Americans enough to voter suppress their way to victory believe in this much raw ...
"that" day's barrage in idea barrages
1.) Why would you call yourself “Ghost Detectives” when you could call yourself “Spectre Inspectors”? I should get to name everything. 2.) Maybe like the Andre The Giant OBEY posters but with Ale...
t-minus-one barrage in idea barrages
1.) If Spiderman is doing another Clone Saga thing, I demand at least one “Insane Clone Posse” joke therein. 2.) Step 1: Pretend to be struggling to spark an invisible Bic lighter. Step 2: Upon “...
changing the narrative in poetry
the stories you tell are something like spells they’re the closest that we have to magic each word misspelled in a sentence you tell can be mistaken in ...
1106 in idea barrages
1.) So they wouldn’t be too hungry for the cheese-tasting party, they did a little brie-gaming. 2.) Metaphor well-placed is the closest thing we have to spellcraft. Story is the only thing we hav...
1105 in idea barrages
1.) Driving home, I see an America heavily damaged but not irretrievably broken. There’s people there who’d suffer if we just tore it down. I don’t want a revolution. Revolutions forget chunks of...
1104 in idea barrages
1.) In the old sci-fi novels, we thought the only jobs technology wouldn’t destroy were in the arts, in some ways it’s almost the opposite. 2.) Last time the Cubs won the Series, the political ma...
1103 in idea barrages
1.) 70 yrs ago our grandfathers died in the mud to beat back fascism. Now all we gotta do is vote for a woman to do it & people say “BUT EMAIL”. 2.) They are burning black churches now. They ...
barrage in the face of darkness in idea barrages
1.) I remember being told I was crazy in ‘01 for saying this would lead to failed states and endless war because that’s what history said. As a kid, it sounded cool to be in times that flirted w/...
barrage of the dead in idea barrages
1.) Your Walking Dead parody of “Put On A Happy Face” will be “Put On A Half Eaten Face”. 2.) I still can’t process that someone thought it a good idea to create a Lethal Weapon teevee show essen...
spoOoOoOoky barrage in idea barrages
1.) We will establish a utopia on Earth as long as we always vote the opposite of who Ted Nugent or Kid Rock would vote for. 2.) Anthony Weiner is Team Rocket from Pokemon. No matter how far we s...
1030 in idea barrages
1.) An espionage thriller about conjoined twins, one of whom is a spy, the other of which is unaware, called DOUBLE LIFE. 2.) At least call your subliminal weight-loss tapes “Hungry Hungry Hypnos...
1029 in idea barrages
1.) Just before the culmination of the ritual, Satanic practices break to stretch and sing “Take Me Out To The Baal Game”. 2.) Your mission is to create a video game where Mario Batali is Super M...
1028 in idea barrages
1.) We are at a point where a candidate is saying “the polls are wrong because the people getting polled are just ashamed to say they like me”. 2.) I don’t know enough about The Walking Dead to m...
1027 in idea barrages
1.) I’m not sure where the line is between thinking it over and over thinking is I just know I’m on that latter side. 2.) Filmmakers don’t call before-the-bar drinking “pre-gaming”, we call it “e...
1026 in idea barrages
1.) Comedy is in some ways is an autopsy of culture. Picking through the owl pellets society leaves, reconstructing skeletons of meaning. 2.) Actually, they were all wrong. It wasn’t Superman at ...
1025 in idea barrages
1.) Legal/medical/cop procedurals are weird, their strict structure often keeps them from being unwatchable but also from being actually good. Television drama is hard for me these days because I...
isle be there in poetry
Everyone says oh God if the Professor was so smart why couldn’t he fix a boat if he was so smart why couldn’t he built a raft? He was on an island paradise with an elderly couple a gay ...
a brave new upgrade in poetry
all these years we figured the surveillance state would be wall-mounted and forced on us through fear in the end they’re in our pockets and we paid for it in the end big brother broke ...
what we are in poetry
We are a nation founded on the notion of standing up to born-rich bullies then watching them pop like balloons in the face of a real fight. We are a nation founded on the notion of ...
1024 in idea barrages
1.) Your rap-version of Rapunzel will prove once and for all that using a pun that only adults will get isn’t good for a kids’ movie. 2.) If your horror porno comedy isn’t called HAM STROKER’S DR...
1023 in idea barrages
1.) We spoke to each other before we knew how to write. If what you’re writing doesn’t scan as spoken words, revise. 2.) Of course gender’s fluid. Cis, trans, 2-spirit, whatever you are, we’re al...
1022 in idea barrages
1.) If you get Sean Connery drunk enough, he speaks in a clear steady Middle-Atlantic accent. You’d swear he was from Maryland or Delaware. 2.) There’s so much said for successes who fear themsel...
