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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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damned near everyone in poetry
when damned near everyone has a camera in their pocket attached to their phone is everyone a filmmaker? is no one a filmmaker? what is a filmmaker? what are you? what am I? when damned near...
1021 in idea barrages
1.) Isn’t a buy one get one free deal at a seafood restaurant really just squid pro quo? 2.) New York State needs more colleges named after role-playing character classes, considering we already ...
1019 in idea barrages
1.) You will put one of those beer helmets on over a cheap Frankenstein costume and refer to yourself as “Drinkinstein”. 2.) Stallone’s line of herbal supplements will be called “Ginkgo Balboa”. ...
1018 in idea barrages
1.) You might wonder where the magazine interview with Mark Mothersbaugh is but, as we all know, the Devo’s in the Details. 2.) You can claim you’re a good golfer all you want but the proof is i...
1017 in idea barrages
1.) I want you to remake key scenes from TERMINATOR except replacing Arnold with a Teddy Ruxpin. 2.) This terrible election makes me mourn the fact that Hunter Thompson isn’t around to comment on...
self-awareness in poetry
There’s nothing more narcissistic than self-deprecation, of course. It by definition involves talking about yourself, talking about myself ‘til I’m hoarse. Whether telling the world...
moth and firefly in poetry
moth fell in love with firefly firefly don’t even know moth followed always from just behind hypnotized by the glow dazed by the light of some far-off thing that’s how dreams tend to go moth...
1016 in idea barrages
1.) “Putinesque” and “Puttanesca”, the stew served in Italian brothels, are nearly the same words because Language Is Wise. 2.) One advantage we have is that the cruelest also tend to be out of t...
two for the diabetes one cuz I eat like shit one for the high blood pressure one for so I don’t have fits two for my aching back four for my aching head through the mirac...
1015 in idea barrages
1.) Robots are a lot like bad movies, loads of fun unless they’re self-aware. 2.) I hope some kid out there has an imaginary friend named The Struggle so she or he can argue that The Struggle is ...
a diamond is just dirty coal transformed by pressure and by time a pearl is just a bit of grit transformed by an oyster’s brine perfume is only whale vomit mixed in with a couple of...
1014 in idea barrages
1.) There have been nights I am so anxiously terrified Trump might win that I can’t sleep at all. This is one of them. 2.) So many social networks become He-Man characters with the addition of a ...
fix me to a star in poetry
fix me to a star and I will sail forever dogged juggernaut fix me to a star and I won’t stop until I pass out or hit land tell me a direction to drive and I will go that way until the t...
1013 in idea barrages
1.) No, it is not classy to refer to your ejaculate as “exclusive member content”, I don’t care if it’s on Patreon or not. 2.) Michael Stipe’s linguistics class will be called “Semiotics For The ...
1012 in idea barrages
1.) The only upside to a zombie apocalypse would be watching undead Bill Hicks fangoriously devour Dennis goddamn Leary. 2.) Have we crowdfunded the five mil to cover some former Apprentice assis...
1011 in idea barrages
1.) The only locker room talk I remember was “how can I get out of running?” 2.) Is there anything funnier than a bully who only knows how to work w/ a lead wither away into nothing when he’s lic...
1010 in idea barrages
1.) I mind the all-Christmas radio stations much less now that they mean pumpkin spice is going away for nine months. 2.) No, you can’t be neutral on a moving train but you also can’t pull an eme...
109 in idea barrages
1.) Of course those nuns fell in love, they were both conventionally attractive. 2.) It’d be easier to say Trump was just “joking crudely” if it wasn’t exactly the kind of sexual assault he’s bee...
108 in idea barrages
1.) Cage goes in the Twitter, you go in the Twitter. Snark’s in the Twitter. Our snark. 2.) Assbro would be a great name for a sex toys company. 3.) The upside to TV dying as a medium is that I’m...
107 in idea barrages
1.) Rural Southerners into ironic 80s nostalgia are known as “radnecks”. 2.) Your new-age goth band will be called “Flock of Sea-Ghouls”. 3.) And on the pedestal these words appear: Never gonna g...
the halloween pledge in poetry
The Halloween Pledge: I will not slut-shame or size-shame anybody’s costumes but I will absolutely stupid-shame where and whenever appropriate. I will not tell you that your Harley Quinn g...
“Consider the lilies in the field,” they will say leading up to election day “they do not toil, the freeloading bastards they are pirating water and soil that is far better used by corporat...
106 in idea barrages
1.) The ignorant and the hateful, they’re just at Kamp Krusty with Trump as their distant myth to bring them food & water & smite their enemies. Their lives are crap but they wanna blame ...
105 in idea barrages
1.) Whenever I read “self-heating meal” I first think it says “self-hating meal” and I imagine a world where that happens. 2.) The thing about fishing is there’s a sucker born every minute. 3.) T...
104 in idea barrages
1.) My superpower is my left shoulder hurts whenever Donald Trump is saying or typing something stupid. That or my superpower is a torn rotator cuff. 2.) All the love of a “good” woman does is ha...
