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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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the statue of theseus in poetry
how many times must we bust ourselves into pieces refilling the scars with gold like that japanese pottery until we are instead a perfect golden image of who we used to be and a...
dec 4 in idea barrages
Eminem rapping about the Spider-Man trailer: “And Doctor Strange says / NOTHING, YOU IDIOT / he’s with the villains he locked in the basement!” NEW RULE: You can only tell origin stories in t...
dec 2 in idea barrages
So DC Comics had a character with power to control rocks & dirt who was European royalty & they called him “Geo-Force” not “Landlord”? Do I have to think for everyone? Did they have a w...
D&D Character Concept - The All 18s Eldritch Knight in life stuff and misc.
Imagine you roll six 18s, honest, in character generation. STR 18 CON 18 INT 18 DEX 18 WIS 18 CHA 18 Now, you could just enjoy playing a Multi Attribute Dependent class as if they were a better...
listlessness in poetry
(ambiguity your) bread and butter (always bringing home the) bacon milk (it for as long as you can) (it’s your money and your) life (don’t let them know your) secret (that yo...
nov 30 in idea barrages
Calling the minor X-Men character Jamie Madrox “Multiple Man” missed a trick. They could’a done “The Divisible Man”. A book about the insane economics of social media and viral video called M...
nov 28 in idea barrages
Middle November. Out the window, in the streetlight, the first flurries of wet snow in the sky. Every single mind born in the Lake Effect Belt looks out, clenches their jaw, balls up their fist...
prompt: nothing, title: a word for ginger brown in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“You play any instruments?” Frank asked, deflecting back to me. “My brother,” I said, “brilliant guitarist, though he’s rusty. My dad is, was,” Frank and I both stumble on the line between what i...
nov 26 in idea barrages
Maybe conservative parents would be more comfortable with sex ed. classes if we called them something different like “Pubic Relations”. Do people take a short break in No-Nut November for Cra...
eating money in poetry
when the bastards found out that they couldn’t eat money that their yachts couldn’t love them fine suits couldn’t fend off the plague they doubled-down on their stupidity...
nov 24 in idea barrages
“Don’t go eat the Applebees with anyone else but me, anyone else but me” would be the weirdest song parody ever. Asshole bottom JEANS, boots on the FEET If Disney really wanted to get their...
the man behind the mask in poetry
in diminished amazement the everbrooding Batman witnessed Clark Kent resurrect yet again as happens so often for the two of them as well as all of the goddamn Superfriends de...
letters about numbered days in poetry
driving over the underpass a manual for the automatic sitting up atop underpants it’s the moving stationery still making memory dance Betty Boop will reminisce for old Beatrice Bopo...
nov 22 in idea barrages
Do you think anyone ever broke up with Geordi LaForge, was like “I think we should see other people” then, like, was so embarrassed by the faux pas that she rescinded the break-up? He’s the o...
nov 20 in idea barrages
A three-way mash-up of Sublime’s “Badfish” (remember that brief period where alt-rock songs all started with party muttering? good times!) 4 Non-Blondes’ “What’s Up” and Bee Gees’ “I’ve Gotta G...
meaning is a puzzle box a children’s game a part we all play meaning is a cheap parlor trick a sumptuous tasting menu a lie that we always betray meaning is constructed over t...
nov 18 in idea barrages
You would figure “the place where the bugs lay all their eggs” wouldn’t be a name for a food delivery service and yet “grub hub” exists. A weird thing about being a person: nothing teaches le...
prompt: return, title: quantum entanglement in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“So, why did you study us in two separate disciplines?” I asked Frank, trying to change the subject from my own flaws, foibles, folly. “How do you mean?” “I mean, you taught human music and human...
good plan sometimes in poetry
STARTING POINT: HOME Calculating… calculating… GO FORWARD THROUGH SCHOOL (you are so gifted, you are so talented) (you can have whatever you want) (you can be whoever you want) ...
You are taught, we are taught, in America, from a very young age that we are the heroes in our own stories. That’s why we’re so good at making villains here, in America, everyone raised to believ...
word word word in poetry
(again, the formatting of this one doesn’t work in prosebox. imagine all the changes) They say that fortune favours the bracketed-B but I live in bracketed-I and so what of me? I am hopelessly le...
nov 16 in idea barrages
If you start calling ducks “honkies” eventually you are going to get around to some fun conversations. No, the WEIRDEST celebrity mash-up would be Crispin Bale. So apparently facebook doesn...
Dave Brubeck took five so why not I? he laid down the beat transcribed the vibe he heard in the street some place some time I liked his conceit I took my try Dave Brubeck took five so why not...
mad liberties with shelley in poetry
I met a (Noun) from an (Adjective) land, who said “Two (Adjective) and (Adjective) legs of stone stand in the (Type-Of-Location). Near them on the sand, Half (Past-Tense-Verb), a shattered (Noun)...
nov 14 in idea barrages
A reverse “It’s A Wonderful Life” where Chris Pratt is forced to realize he was a better human being as a “failure” stoner beach bum than as a rich and famous actor in deep with a cult. You j...
