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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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aug 21 in idea barrages
Freedom Patriots (TM) where are you with your make-you-feel-like-a-big-man murder sticks you’re so proud of, when police are attacking protestors in the streets? I thought you were all Don’t Tr...
aug 20 in idea barrages
Rome burns while Nero golfs. An Uptown Funk/Rammstein mash-up involving the line “Du hast? Hast damn.” I could not care less about some rich jerk piggybacking his billionaire space vanity p...
prompt: holler, title: places in-between in misc. flash fiction
Sophie would wander out, sometimes, to the holler in the countryside at the edge of town. It was the kind of place the old folks spoke of fondly, where she and her friends had run wild when they ...
aug 19 in idea barrages
How Hanna-Barbera hasn’t sold the idea of “Captain Craveman” to some fast food joint, I will never know. The tabletop RPG for roleplaying as a member of my family will be called Hoarders &...
aug 18 in idea barrages
How are we going to break it to the Spice Girls that what we want, what we really really want is for ALF to come back, in POG form? Your chiptune DJ name will be “Christopher Walkman”. The ...
double meanings in poetry
because you’re threading the needle of dreading the real but you’re threatened by weedles and those playing long-cons while you’re left there just waiting to up to...
aug 17 in idea barrages
Create an imaginary form of Italian line-dancing and declare yourself “Lord of the Danza”. Sometimes I want to write a story about the Norfolk City Hall trying to put up the Ten Commandments ...
aug 16 in idea barrages
If we could take the irrational hatred of Andy Cuomo by rednecks and fringe-lefties alike in New York State and just somehow transfer it to Rivers Cuomo, we may still yet find an end to the sco...
Took an honourable mention in a poetry contest! in life stuff and misc.
Okay, a humour poetry contest, very much my wheelhouse! Won 100 bucks, even! Check it out. People can win or place in these kinds of things, it happens. There are so many great writers here, you ...
aug 15 in idea barrages
I feel like we could really make some cynical money selling “Placename Strong” tee-shirts. All the petty little prepper power fantasies dissolve like candyfloss in rainstorm when faced with a...
aug 14 in idea barrages
They’re exactly like Lunchables except Mitch McConnell’s face is printed on every cracker and they’re just called Punchables. Two aging disgraced bumbling cops take over security at a trendy ...
no no, it's just my allergies in poetry
when this passes if this passes I will feel naked without a mask on when this passes if this passes I will hesitate before I embrace in public and I apologize in advance when...
a modern proposal in poetry
we cannot say with any certainty Rachel Ray has eaten human flesh of course that would be absurd unprovable libelous defamation we have no proof TV’s Rachel Ray has feasted upon the lo...
when it stops in poetry
I dreamed of a record found up in the attic when played it looked just like teevee static which hasn’t existed since they killed analog but something was calming in that random fog grooves sp...
aug 13 in idea barrages
I hope Elton John and Billy Joel have a falling out and Elton writes a diss track called POCKET MAN about how Billy is so tiny he can keep him in his pants with his wallet and cellphone. If y...
aug 12 in idea barrages
To humanize Tom Brady only brings the human race down further, it does the rich little privilege machine manlet no favours. In an all-fat-guy KISS cover band, I claim the nom-de-stage “Peter ...
prompt: star, title: the daily stumble in misc. flash fiction
It could be better, it could be worse for Jemma Taylor, M.F.A. While most of her old grad-school comrades slave away as untenured adjunct professors, she fell into writing a gimmicky series of pa...
aug 11 in idea barrages
Don’t call them “dog breeders” they prefer the term “red rocket scientists”. I sure hope that Larry the Cable Guy’s tailor is called Cary the Label Guy. Wanting the world to be a better pla...
aug 10 in idea barrages
You gotta play reverse psychology games with the universe sometimes, I think. Call your experimental aircraft “the Hubris”. Dare the gods to look too on-the-nose. This Grimes/Musk thing will ...
aug 9 in idea barrages
You don’t get many chances to say “we took this haunted house and made it a haunted home” but when you do, you have to take it. The current Song For Ollie is to a Rolling Stones tune and is s...
aug 8 in idea barrages
Wishing each other Happy Hondadays is just a small part of the larger War on Chryslermas. A “president” refusing to mask because feigning strength in a time of crisis is more important than l...
prompt: star, title: arts & silences in misc. flash fiction
The word is not the thing, of course, Korzybski, but the hope is that the word can at least gesture toward it. We use our words like B.B. pellets at a carnival shooting range, where one could nev...
aug 7 in idea barrages
Ideas had sitting with the dog in the Price Chopper parking lot: if you were performing “Teenage Wasteland” live with a fiddler, why not segue straight into “Istabul Not Constantinople” after? ...
aug 6 in idea barrages
Unable to tell whether the bite marks were from a werewolf or vampire, the coroner simply wrote “Died of Supernatural Causes”. Getting his head smashed by Satan like a watermelon, every hour ...
There’s a line on Figure Eight by Elliott Smith, his spirit mentioned previous, that goes “Got a foot in the door, God knows what for”. When first I listened, I thought it just clever songwriting...
