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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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recipe for disaster in poetry
First, to start, for the sake of art, get yourself one (1) broken heart. Now, put both (2) bare hands in and shred that whole mess finely apart. But this recipe is not merely grief and bluster. I...
warning label in poetry
Life (ergosum evanscentium) is not for everyone. Side effects made include: heartbreak of the psoriasis, heartbreak, mood swings, sleepless nights, brief fits of euphoria, anxiety, depression, yo...
nov 12 in idea barrages
The good news is that the music played in heaven’s waiting room is the theme to TAXI. The bad news is that the music played in hell’s waiting room is “Take It Easy” by the Eagles. So, like, cho...
prompt: matter, title: time spent in los angeles in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“And then what happened?” I asked the sasquatch, as he stopped to listen to the distant sounds of people insulting each other in different dialects of Spanish, in the diner’s back-of-house. “That...
nov 10 in idea barrages
Only in COVID did we finally fulfill the prediction of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. One nation, stupid and contagious. A remake of MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE, directed by Guillermo del Torgo and s...
today's crosswords (edit) in poetry
( I was trying to post a poem that riffed on lists. PB keeps trying to put it into a properly numeric list. Imagine the word numbers as numerals to complete the vibe.) ACROSS One. Rubicon Crossed...
nov 8 in idea barrages
Plot’s uninteresting to me. Character, theme, tone, plot’s just the necessary skeleton they hang off. Do you look at a handsome man or a beautiful woman & think “what a tibia!”? No, you app...
nov 6 in idea barrages
In “Rocket Robin Hood” was the female lead “Maid Martian”? It should’ve been, anyway. A Toto “Africa” parody built around the line “Throw bless-ed rain on DRAC-U-LA”. Some people get pretty...
prompt: lie, title: compare and contrast in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Frank Yetti prefers to say that he is “seven feet tall” in American English, in local measurement vernacular, even though that’s not exactly true. If you put him in the cliché of a general practi...
intercut (a poem that doesn't work in prosebox's formatting) in poetry
(imagine it in screenplay format) INTERCUT: EXT. ACTIONS DAY TO – DAY Rarely indicate our true motivation, the actual story of a life. Even though that’s all anyone else can know about us. Even t...
nov 4 in idea barrages
Not finding weird exercise VHS or souvenirs from defunct theme-parks I settled on Ferlinghetti for a change of mental pace. The store’s staff asked me to take group pictures of their Halloween ...
nov 2 in idea barrages
Celebrity athletes LeBron James and Blake Bortles could make a wine cooler line called Bortles And James. If you’re allergic to book fairs, do they make you go into anascholastic shock? Why...
grays and greys in poetry
getting old has not taught me much which shouldn’t be that surprising human beings in general aren’t good at learning things despite claims to the opposite, no, we are better at feeling thi...
our national times past in poetry
they love their football so much because it is the last plantation they have left for the cheering Sunday afternoon after bowing to their lily-white Jesus Christs the S...
prompt: beyond, title: establishing boundaries in "the next big thing" flash fiction
You’d figure a sasquatch wouldn’t have much to be afraid of in our world, even a small yeti like Frank. Six-foot-eleven would seem to ensure that, if nothing else, he would be the last busker in ...
oct 31 in idea barrages
Volunteering for a rap battle is doing the audience a huge diss service. I can’t be the only one who likes to pretend the H.P. in “H.P. Lovecraft” is Hewlett Packard. Hewlett Packard Lovecraf...
oct 29 in idea barrages
They totally could’ve called retail therapy “shelf care”. They didn’t but they should’ve. Ape cannot be in possession of ape is nine-tenths of ape law. I think when I finally get a band tog...
oct 27 in idea barrages
I hope somewhere, some how, there is a rapper thinking of calling himself “Young Frankenstein” not knowing the movie exists at all, looking up the phrase and having his mind blown by the film i...
oct 25 in idea barrages
The price of a hit song is you have to play it 200 times a year every year the rest of your life. Hopefully your hit will at least be something tossed-off & stupid. If it’s your life’s work...
oct 24 in idea barrages
Another thing I’d do with unlimited funds: a Muppet restaging of THE BIG CHILL. Another song idea with no audience: a parody of the Velvet Underground’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties” about Billy B...
victory and balboa in poetry
stay down, rocky the fame isn’t worth it stay down, rocky the money isn’t worth it stay down, rocky your pride isn’t worth it it isn’t worth your death nor a life of pain and regret stay down, ro...
oct 23 in idea barrages
Happy Hondadays suggests the existence of Happy Hondaween and I don’t think even Honda wants that. I hope that slang for a British-made truck is a “Hugh Lorrie”. I sure hope that downstate ...
prompt: chill, title: in a vacuum in misc. flash fiction
We want to go to the stars. The movies make it look easy, the television makes it look easy, little blinking lights, press a few then liftoff, there you are. The fantasy is understandable but I w...
We kept coming back around to that lyric “it never rains in Southern California, it pours” which is true enough, both literally and metaphorically. In the places where there isn’t often rain, eve...
oct 21 in idea barrages
A great name for a band would, of course, be “Hoodie Warrelson”. Sometimes I think about how in my own lifetime McDonalds had a salad with the wildly racist name “Chicken Salad Oriental” but ...
