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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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i am bicpentameter in poetry
Am I the only one bothered that anagram isn’t an anagram? Am I the only one bothered that palindrome isn’t a palindrome? Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? Tha...
the abyss, as in a mirror dimly in poetry
liberation from oppression is of vital import but the moment we go past that and oppress others we are even worse than those who hurt us until our hurt stared back this can never be abou...
jan 23 in idea barrages
The new slang for pot will be “Portland oregano”. I hate this idea that evolving on a position is a sign of weakness or deceit, as if you’re supposed to rise from the sea, Venus on the half s...
prompt: desultory, title: don't get carried away in misc. flash fiction
We’d expected the Rapture to be fun, of course. We figured it would leave humanity without the sanctimonious stick-in-the-mud hypocrites and full-stop psychotics that’d ranted about it for the la...
prompt: beauty, title: beauty and the beast and werewolves in misc. flash fiction
In the large print of happy endings, certainly when wild and powerful magic’s involved, there’s almost always some unintended horror deep down in the small print. Belle and the Prince indeed got ...
prompt: the apple story, title: goodbye my pretty in misc. flash fiction
She’d heard the story of the wishing apples in the ruins before she understood the words used to tell it. She was always drawn to that tale but when still just a child, the adults tried to protec...
jan 22 in idea barrages
Though raised on rock and roll, I can listen to a lot of modern pop and think “this isn’t for me but I can see why someone else would like it”. Modern country, I cant. It’s the same 3 or 4 song...
j21 in idea barrages
“There is nothing to fear” means a different thing with every differing syllable emphasis. If CDs were still a mainstream thing and the band Urge Overkill was still a thing, I’d get a bunch o...
jan 20 in idea barrages
It feels like the warm spell on a March Ash Wednesday right before an Easter blizzard. The finest way to support the military is to never use them. You gotta not look back as the past reced...
jan 19 in idea barrages
Your “Addicted To Love” parody will involve the line “Midas well face it, you make gold out of stuff”. Now that Tarantino isn’t doing a Star Trek, maybe he can do a Sherlock Holmes called “Th...
known unknowns in poetry
everywhere everyone everyone everywhere has a name had a name was called something particular by very many someones if not anymore at least once just because those names did not surv...
you can, of course squeeze at a stone until there’s blood the blood won’t be from the stone, the blood will be your own that’s all but squeeze and blood and stone they’ll all be presently ...
jan 18 in idea barrages
Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? If you’re on tumblr claiming to spiritually identify as a trickster imp, are you Rumplestiltskinkin? You can waste your time and...
jan 17 in idea barrages
The boa killed the first two fluteplayers and yet nevertheless, she was undeterred. She just smiled. “Third time’s the charmer.” I recently saw a self help book called The Courage To Be Rich ...
jan 16 in idea barrages
Once every four years, end of February, we should all just stop what we’re doing and binge watch Quantum Leap for a day. If you’re born rich, you shouldn’t get credit for making yourself more...
keyword: drag, title: the woods of steel and glass in "the next big thing" flash fiction
It took Margaret Nussbaum years to become The Amazing Mitzi, according to Frank Yetti, to reach the modest success she’d attained as a stage mage. She hadn’t started as a slight-of-hand artist al...
jan 15 in idea barrages
Collecting Garfield crap would be a good hobby because you could never stop. There was so much variety of Garfield crap churned out in the 80s that no one will never know how it all. Devoting y...
jan 14 in idea barrages
If only “Starf” was a word in English, I could make some really great Nintendo “Starf Ox” jokes. Maaaaaybe an Icelandic retro-gamer would enjoy a joke about the hard-working (starf means work i...
jan 13 in idea barrages
“Religion is the opiate of the masses” meant… it is a powerful short-term balm to pain, which it is. But you get dependent on it if you don’t repair the underlying damage, it consumes you while...
jan 12 in idea barrages
The macro opposition to free college has nothing to do with its cost and everything to do with how it would delay entry to the workforce, thinning out unemployment and taking away big business’...
jan 11 in idea barrages
Truck dealerships are full of pick-up lines. Reduced Fat means More Sugar. No Sugar means Carcinogenic Sugar Substitutes. There are no quick fix solutions, only precariously balanced trade of...
phantom limb syndrome in poetry
that tingling feeling as if your soul has fallen fast asleep that prickle at the back of your everything you leaned on your consciousness for too long something has been pinched it has slu...
j10 in idea barrages
If I ever met John Leguizamo, I am almost certain I would slip up and call him Log Jenuizamo. We must be kind to each other, much as we can, in the moments we’re in, and we can undo all this ...
the turning away in poetry
dream it build it knock it down don’t look now here it comes again mandala mandala mandal manda mand man ma m dream it build it ...
jan 9 in idea barrages
The holiday season is so extended these days, it feels like they’re putting up Happy Hondadays decorations the day after Hondaween. Observation alters outcome. Subatomic particles in experime...
