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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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apr 11 in idea barrages
Yes, I am singing a song about a particularly brutal vampire called “Vlad, Vlad Leroy Brown”. This is what we do during civilization’s collapse. No zombies to kill, just chillin’ inside, singin...
apr 10 in idea barrages
House be burning down, the far right and far left be arguing over the definition of fire while the rest run for water. A man blinded to reality by hateful greed and a man blinded to reality b...
apr 9 in idea barrages
“These Fig Newtons taste awful, like gun powder and K-Mart…” looks down, realizes they accidentally purchased Fig Nugents. Ain’t nobody wants to share your misery but they may wanna share you...
apr 8 in idea barrages
Nearly any curse can be improved by introducing the adjective “lemon-scented” before it. They no longer want to be called “drill sergeants” they now prefer “personnel trainers”. In the mi...
apr 7 in idea barrages
Don’t say “I haven’t had sex in years”. Say “I’m dry-aging my meat”. It sounds all classy cooking show host. Your sexy French Super Mario Brothers cosplay will be called Brigitte Birdo. May...
apr 6 in idea barrages
Would a marijuana edibles baking competition be called a Cookie Chilloff? By mishandling the response to the Corona virus, leading to the cancellation of the March Madness tournament, Trump’s...
prompt: undulate, title: the moral arc of the universe in misc. flash fiction
For a stretch of time in the early 20th century, the most effective treatment for advanced syphilis was to intentionally infect with malaria on top of the syphilis. It induced a high-fever that k...
apr 5 in idea barrages
Less misery cults, more mystery cults! I can see the forest, or any given tree, it’s all those imagined distinctions in-between, that are utterly lost on me. Political arguments aren’t Supe...
apr 4 in idea barrages
Build a drum kit entirely out of Gatorade containers and perform as The Electrolyte Orchestra. Your musical about the behind-the-scenes drama behind a cooking show will be called PUREE FOR HO...
apr 3 in idea barrages
So this year, I can say that I’m not going to the Saint Patricks Parade in Utica “because I’m afraid of the Corona virus” instead of stating the truth that I don’t care to freeze and then wade ...
myth-ing, you in poetry
like Snow White if instead her dire step-mother lived with her inside her head hair like half-past-midnight eyes like autumn rain skin like baby powder encapsulates the pain voices r...
gone and forgotten in poetry
how quickly it’ll all roll back the skies will clear drilling wounds fill in beachside villas wash away the mars selfishly carved into her will be pink shiny newness then in no time at all vanish...
apr 2 in idea barrages
The optimal name for a pet armadillo is “Pinecone”. Yeah but what if rock n roll doesn’t love you back? Endeavour at all times to remind the world how goddamned weird everything is. The mor...
equivalent exchange in poetry
Erik Weisz double-named after Houdin burnt like a dervish, watch Harry spin jacket unfurled, brass clasps flick you wonder how he turned the trick but you don’t really wanna know no tri...
apr 1 in idea barrages
If I just called every country act out there “Cody Codyngton” I’d probably be right like 83% of the time. If you legally change your name to “Serious Inquiries” you’re going to get a leg up o...
prompt: "ruin" title: "A.C. Moore or Less" in misc. flash fiction
Some call it “ruins photography” or “ruin tourism” but the most vulgar term is also the most apt: “ruin porn”. Documenting crumbling infrastructures, in best case showcasing our abandoned but mos...
mar 31 in idea barrages
An adventuring party of five bards that operate under the cover of being a boy band called “Fifth Edition”. Passion is wonderful as a starting point but it’s no end to itself. Passion is inco...
life during wartime in poetry
lines, imaginary lines, ancient and meaningless lines, revered and deadly-arbitrary the kind of lines that do divide humanity from itself to make some con-man a few bucks to convince us that ther...
mar 30 in idea barrages
Even if you actually thought Woody Allen wasn’t a weapons-grade sex criminal, what a weird hill to die on. He hasn’t had a good idea in years and years, he hasn’t had a new idea in like four de...
mar 29 in idea barrages
March 5th? Only 80 days till spring! The rallying cry for waking up before 5 in the am “lets do thos before we talk ourselves out of it!” Order, chaos, law, anarchy, these are all just abst...
mar 28 in idea barrages
“How it should be” is a trap laid to stop you from doing anything. The tools you have before you, as they are, what good can you reasonably do with them now? What little improvements can you ma...
mar 27 in idea barrages
Some people, if they like formal study, they’re academic. Some people like disease outbreaks, they’re epidemic. But if you like both, you’re pandemic. Your album of Alpine folk covers of Beck...
mar 26 in idea barrages
Sadly, the Doctor was never able to fit the Monster with the soft-rock-singing module he’d been constructing for him, the Michael Bolt-On. Are you your body or the blood within? Are you good ...
prompt "latitude", title "the infestation" in misc. flash fiction
The buggies in my furs, they sometimes hurt but they’ve been on there so long I can’t help but feel like they’re a part of me. They make me itch sometimes but when Momma goes off to work, I know ...
there’s a fever now inside our heads and a fever burns things away we get a choice if we can burn up unrealistic expectations dreams no longer working attachments helping no one we may have a cha...
