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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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an illusion in poetry
Time is an illusion but the entropy that creates the illusion is not. Sadly, understanding time’s falsity does not prevent entropy. The illusory nature of time does not ameliorate its side effec...
I Dream Of Televised Supernatural Wives in poetry
Major Tony Nelson, man I can sort of understand your disinterest in Jeannie’s reality-bending magic ability you are already incredibly cool you’re a motherfucking astronaut but an...
handle with care in poetry
Most of my short-form writing starts off clashing thrashing crashing and smashing cast like a madman’s frothing manifesto but closes like a hopeful if repetitious love letter like a hopef...
Your dreams will eventually be forgotten. Your nightmares will eventually be forgotten. You get to choose, though, which will linger. The gods will not know you by your final draft, rather...
still pictures in poetry
Thin, her face lost its substance, thin, her breasts lost their glory, thin, her form lost its stories. We are not our bodies I am not just my body we are not just our bodies but ou...
Little Falls is a pack of feral dogs, beautiful and free, but something still lost when the worldliness was left behind. Even going back to Eden, something is lost. Utica is a Bosnia...
four definitions in poetry
Sanity, a thousand piece jigsaw assembled at leisure. Madness, pieces dumped on your head for somebody’s pleasure. Sadness, a side effect of using others as measure. Hope, for tomorrow not for...
toothpaste and war in poetry
Faith is grief hoarded and weaponized, laid out for terrible numbing purpose. Love is knowing pain and wanting no one else to ever feel that pain again. Money is fear condensed into mat...
Sometimes you see a pic of an ex with her new dude and you’re genuinely happy because he’s fat so that isn’t why she dumped you. You’re just happy to know that she dumped you because you’re w...
corinthians in poetry
some old damned book once said “when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I thought as a child when I became a man, I put away childish things” but when I was really ...
van nuys area code barrage in idea barrages
1.) Fear, anger & resentment, all sell you the same gas, toothpaste & war. Rational hope, though, is a revolutionary act. Hope is subversive. 2.) He was at the point in the process of fak...
skipped a few barrage in idea barrages
1.) Selling billboard space on your church is the epitome of cross-promotion. 2.) I demand a movie about an undercover DEA agent called “Raiders of the Lost Narc”. 3.) Scandinavian smut is really...
815 in idea barrages
1.) Humiliation via humidity is humidiation. 2.) Your survival guide to the Kentucky Derby will be called “Tiptoe Through The Juleps”. 3.) I wonder if there were any unfortunate discount stores t...
814 in idea barrages
1.) Trucking dispatchers are semi conductors. 2.) Only horror nerds would appreciate an Eminem parody called “My Name Is (Lon Cheney)”. 3.) There’s no hex in the Samhain room. Oh, there’s Samhain...
time spent in los angeles in poetry
I made my way into the mouth of the beast not into the belly, no, not in the least chewed me up spit me out but still I survived most don’t make it back breathing most don’t even give it a ...
no sleep til brooklyn in poetry
the cars on the M-line churning out their rockabye two connecting trains away from the Rockaways via the A but you can’t know it until they take that soothing tune wheels can make til you...
uncle donny in poetry
eyes are always watching you but they’re kind eyes you think you’re being monitored but you’re really just being protected from afar Boo Radley just wanted Scout safe he might not speak he mig...
eaves variation in poetry
and if there’s nothing left for us after this living as agnostics and acrostics might suggest if your puzzle ends up only half-completed all that matters is that you tried and did your best ...
813 in idea barrages
1.) The extinction event for dinosaurs was the Velacorapture. 2.) My president-themed death metal band will be called Brutally Honest Abe. 3.) Let’s stop calling it “the gig economy” and call it ...
812 in idea barrages
1.) Long before the flood is when you have to give a damn. Last-minute damns do nothing. 2.) Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until next year. 3.) Youtube, it is adorable that yo...
811 in idea barrages
1.) The way Donald Trump makes you feel about politics is how The Big Bang Theory makes me feel about sitcoms. 2.) It’s a game about finding Twitter neologisms and trying to squash them before th...
WGY barrage in idea barrages
1.) The word “Saleabration” displays a shocking ignorance of both what a celebration is and what a sale is. 2.) Your porn parody of “The Fifth Element” will be called “The Filth Element”. 3.) Mas...
89 in idea barrages
1.) Two frat boys hooking up often ends in a bro job. 2.) Sometimes you see a pic of an ex with her new dude and you’re genuinely happy because he’s fat so that isn’t why she dumped you. 3.) When...
88 in idea barrages
1.) Your play about Canada will be called The Regina Monologues. 2.) Female Fremen prefer the term “frewomen” you can’t just go around calling them “the spice girls”. 3.) My flagpole toppers stor...
87 in idea barrages
1.) Listen to the shattered people groan about the shadow people, drones down through the sideways peepholes, conspiracy, conspiracy. 2.) Remember what it says on the New York City bridges: If yo...
