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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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grist haiku in poetry
life is your story and as an old friend told me: revise and revise
the edge of change in poetry
corner a generation with medical bills student loans and subsistence jobs give us nothing to lose see what happens they’re arresting us for our loans now, agai...
fraternity row in poetry
I’d get in conversations with the crows of Syracuse I’d caw at them in the trees at night they’d caw back down at me on the ground we had an understanding, the crows and I...
when you consider the lifespans of cats and mice Tom was probably battling generations of Jerries mistakenly thinking they were all one mouse this one bruised him with a meat ...
idiot nostalgia in poetry
always weird when someone with the same hair of the same height as an ex breezes through past you in line at a bar brushes on over-ways just for a ...
marks (where you were cut in) twain in poetry
they aren’t scars they were never scars they are survival marks they aren’t wounds from nightly bars or afternoons measured out in coffee-spoons ...
216 in idea barrages
1.) She wanted to be the world’s most successful tow truck driver but, y’know, be careful what you winch for. 2.) It is my most fervent hope that Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s autobiography will be called...
215 in idea barrages
1.) Goddamn it, I want a Star Wars Valentine Special about the Wookie Celebration of Love Day. 2.) I love you, X-Files, but if you only get six episodes, devoting two to comically deconstructing ...
sugar sugar haiku 2 in poetry
metformin fucks with your gut like a right bitch we’re all getting old
one more valentine rose in poetry
roses are red valium is not but not having a panic attack is in its own way pretty hot
eight valentine roses in poetry
roses are red violets spring from divinity I wonder if I’m single because I refuse to participate in performative masculinity roses are red violets are blue ...
white elephant in poetry
life is a white elephant we never asked for this but here we are anyway what will you do about it? a white elephant in full a precious blessing and yet the upkeep is...
piece of cake in poetry
I hope the first robot to gain sentience is one of those industrial cake-decorating robots. It’ll have a lot of interesting questions. “I WAS JUST DECORATING CAKES?” “THAT’S ALL I WA...
valentine's barrage in idea barrages
1.) If you’re going to meld nostalgic cartoons with horrifying Bible stories, I’d certainly start with G.I. JOB. 2.) Ultimately, we are all wooden clogs painted up to look like boss Chuck Taylors...
to the tune of NO REST FOR THE WICKED in song parodies
I was walkin’ down the street when out the corner of my eye I saw a woman in a robe approaching me she said “Just try to do no harm and then do as thou wilt that’s what the fu...
to the tune of MY MY HEY HEY in song parodies
my my hey hey guacamole into my face it’s full of the good fats that’s what they say my my hey hey take out the pit and cut it in cubes you make it fresh,...
the committee haiku in poetry
“we need a short word for fear and hate ” they said and they settled on “god”
213 in idea barrages
1.) When you consider the lifespans of cats & mice Tom was probably battling generations of Jerries mistakenly thinking they were all one mouse. 2.) Open a BDSM pizzeria called “Toppings”. Wh...
212 in idea barrages
1.) Corner a generation with medical bills, student loans & subsistence jobs. Give us nothing to lose. See what happens. 2.) It shouldn’t matter but when I go to another state & see thei...
east herkimer haiku in poetry
darkest winter night drove past the cemetery asking for advice
when unleashed, brother I am wholly other when unleashed, sister I’m no common mister when unleashed, friend I no longer pretend unleashed, comrade I’m ba...
211 in idea barrages
1.) Good news: finally got a scrip for muscle relaxants for my terrible lower back. Bad news: I’m on a blood sugar medicine for the first time ever too. 2.) Sometimes you gotta be forgetful to ke...
mechanisms coping in poetry
Never do something five times when you could do it once when it’s piled up enough to be worth doing. Work for work’s sake proves nothing. All great ideas came from the...
the ghost shirt society in poetry
We need gods of instructive chaos. We need goddesses of didactic mischief. An army of Brother and Sister Coyotes to push back at all of these Lokii. Jests that teach...
210 in idea barrages
1.) Reminder: our nation is so hopped up on hillbilly heroin, there was a Super Bowl ad for a pill that lets you poop when constipated from opiods. 2.) It’s a shame Disney is so litigious because...
