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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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words failing in poetry
the words we use and how we use them manipulate the very world around us but no amount of words no matter how precise could ever define you a conscious mind is a special case a micro realit...
precious now in poetry
Who you were is not who you are is not who you will be. You are a process in motion, you have been in flux from the first quickening of your heart to your very last breath. It’s okay, you coul...
casting calls in poetry
As much as I want to rail against superstition and magical thinking, in the end, I realize I’m privileged to be able to think of it this way. For so many marginalized people, myth an...
i am what i am in poetry
I don’t want to colonize your pain. I don’t want to gentrify your rage. I don’t want to pretend I can sublimate your subjugation into my own experience. I don’t want to lead, don’t want to su...
no gods no guillotines in poetry
Any freedom won by violence or its threat will be lost, by and by, in a generation or three’s time, no matter how noble the intent. Its history won’t teach your progeny the value of freedom, o...
two short poems in character by my D&D bard in poetry
what glitters, my friend is means to many of an end but there’s no earthly way to spend all of that hard fought and harder won gold if we find ourselves swung from the bottom of the city gall...
something is lost in poetry
algorithmically curated media denies us processing any idea we do not immediately accept scrolling on your timeline picking up a record needle they are at least trivial barriers to...
mar 25 in idea barrages
The words we use and how we use them manipulate the very world around us but no amount of words, no matter how precise, could ever define you. A conscious mind is a special case, a micro realit...
prayers to jotunheim in poetry
come to me my ancient winter sky if you love me still then you will fall thick around them blanketing until spring fevers pass snug inside your breast snow them in a...
mar 24 in idea barrages
I wouldn’t call myself a first prize but I’m a lot more than a participation trophy. I’m a hell of an honourable mention. The perfect name for a twee soft alt rock band from northern New York...
mar 23 in idea barrages
If you tell someone something, they probably won’t believe it if it doesn’t match their preconceptions or, at best, they’ll only understand it on a surface level. If you hide it in a riddle the...
mar 22 in idea barrages
No, I can’t say that I have faith in the American electorate at large. Faith, to paraphrase DUNE, is for Sunday meditations and loveplay. Looking at similar cycles in the past and seeing how th...
mar 21 in idea barrages
I look forward to the day Taylor Swift finally takes to combat with her mortal enemy Taylor Leisurely. Having finally shaken the girl off his trail, the wolf snarked to himself “more like Lit...
mar 20 in idea barrages
Part man, part indigestion relief, all cop. BROMOCOP. Part man, part radio ad liner, all cop. PROMOCOP. But that I could convert some of the retail space in Herkimer abandoned due to the Wa...
prompt: flip, title: pushing paper in misc. flash fiction
I could get you anything, anything you wanted, within reason, with a certain value for the word “reason”. It was so easy, of course, when the requests were mostly just street-drugs, prescription ...
mar 19 in idea barrages
A compilation of the Toronto punk scene called “Oi Canada!”? A parody of Bittersweet Symphony about Transformers built around the phrase “I can change, I can change, I can change, I can chang...
the queen of retail hell in poetry
the woman cuts through all the veils between all of her worlds slides, sways between them between the expectations life has thrust upon her she shimmies and sh...
mar 18 in idea barrages
If you’re accused of being the Loch Ness monster, are you allegendary? If Robin Hood was the Prince of Thieves, was his dad the Burglarking? A hip-hop version of RENT called BOHEMIAN RAP CI...
mar 17 in idea barrages
Of course Hubbard’s western has characters named Mart Kincaid and Gar Malone in it. Those are exactly the names a disordered mind would think belongs in an oater. People seem to have forgotte...
mar 16 in idea barrages
Hopefully whenever we get to the point that McDonalds puts little dents in the Chicken McGriddles and call ‘em McChicken McWaffles, we’ll finally be rid of this stunt food fad for a while. A ...
mar 15 in idea barrages
UNPOPULAR EMOTIONAL REACTION: Often, the cringe of THE OFFICE was not cathartic insofar as similar feelings in life, rather doubled them down and made me feel worse. The god of wine and thund...
mar 14 in idea barrages
Trump is torn on whether to pardon Weinstein, of course. He’ll do nearly anything to protect a fellow wealthy sex-criminal but doesn’t want to accidentally alienate his core base of frothing an...
mar 13 in idea barrages
I’ve had too much privilege, too many advantages to have a right to be angry. I’ll leave being angry about the world to the people who have the right to be, I’m going to stick with alternating ...
mar 12 in idea barrages
UNPOPULAR OPINION: In most cases, gravy just covers over the core deliciousness of a food with greasy unctuousness. There are exceptions but most of the time, if something is well-prepared, gra...
prompt: cantankerous, title: after the gold rush in misc. flash fiction
The idea of taking on the rap personae of a grizzled gold prospector sounded ridiculous to me as well when my agent first pitched it, but as he was quick to remind, this business isn’t just about...
