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: Fair Use The licensing fees for nostalgia tripled in November. It costs fourteen cents to wonder if it will …

: Index This intentionally small and intentionally impossible to read image is the outline of a book that …

: Twenty Possibilities Today I decided to look back at what I was writing two years ago. It was this. Light Bender Pushing …

: Gold Star I told you I loved you and you gave me a gold star. You stuck it beside the others and pressed it …

: The Traffic Wizard Whatever he gives one lane comes out of the other three. The Chevy with the tags two years expired. …

: Non-Locality at the Local Olive Garden You're explaining quantum entanglement with breadsticks. Your hands, though— You take a bite and I …

: You Can Be One of Them I documented in The Click a generative method applied to haiku, which is a favorite source of mine. …

: The Man on the Tower

: Air Traffic Control

: 800 Grit My poem 800 Grit was published in ONE ART today. …

: Retreat I’m spending a week at Saint John’s University. Just hiking and trying to figure out my life.

: The Click One of my favorite techniques for coming up with ideas is pretty simple. It starts with haiku on …

: Jeff's Big Day Off I've been taking a bit of a break for the past few weeks. I started writing bad pickup lines, …

: Fallstreak Hole At night, the clouds descend. They cover our faces softly enough that we do not wake. We breathe …

: Life’s a Beach Life was okay. The ocean was beside us, the resort was behind us, and our manes were always brushed …

: Gesturing and Genuflecting Two Harbors, MN

: The Quarter Paladin He waits near the carts in full armor with a crown of quarters in one gloved hand. When someone …

: Egg salad: when you were halfway to tuna and said this is good enough.

: If You Open the Door, Turn To Page ■■■■ The book I want to write is like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, except all the page numbers you …

: Unused Poem Ideas These are open source ideas free for you to use. A man eating a bowl of soup on a train Why even …

: Mundane Moments in Action Cinema, Episode 1: The Temple of Liability [INT. MINE — NIGHT] The rumble of distant drums. Echoes of shouts. Danger looms. SHORT ROUND and …

: Two Poems by Jeff Cove Here are my recent poems on Defenestration. Two Poems by Jeff Cove As with a lot of my stuff, these …

: My poems “Horse Thoughts” and “At The Eldritch Horror Zoo” are getting published in the December …

: Yesterday my poem “Sleeping On Your Side” was published in Issue 5 of Pictura Journal.

: I drove 10 hours over the last 2 days and had some time to listen to Billy Collins’ Masterclass on …

: Mattering What would life be like if we did not want to matter? This question has been on my mind. Many people …

: Unplanned Retirement The realization that he wasn't living up to his potential hit him mid-performance. He withdrew his …

: Gratitude I was always a strong reader and writer. So much so that my school formed a special group of myself …

: Macho Man Randy Savage Reviews: Entropy Snap Into Thermodynamic Irreversibility! Let me tell you somethin’, brother… You can stack your …

: there’s a time for love but i just ate spaghetti so it’s not right now

: The first rule of hopelessness club is oh what does it even matter.

: Purgatory On our last night we burned the maps to push back the dark.

: His crime was that he would find people having drinks with those little umbrellas in them and he …

: What I Should Have Known Things were going well. She ordered salmon. I had beef wellington. We were in orbit feeding each …

: Donate to my GoFundMe to ban drum sets because hand percussion is far superior

: This Poem Was Written By an LLM Trained on Eurodance* Take Me Energy Higher Pressure Move Your Body Energy Tonight Pump Moving Energy— Forever. * This …

: Rocketry As a kid, for a while I was into model rockets. Kind of. There are different model rocket engine …

: I knocked on heaven’s door, but only before I saw the “No Soliciting” sign. My bad.

: Continuing your travels across the plains, you will come to the city of Juro. The architects of Juro …

: Turbo Simile, Volume 1 “…like the feeling when a friend has tickets to a concert but can’t go so they offer them to you and …

: They said they’d give me a hundred dollars when I reached the horizon and I took them up on it.

: Bad Jokes Deluxe Yesterday I was trying to eat some ice cream, but the kid I stole it from wouldn’t stop crying. I …

: I've got a dad body. That's why you shouldn't go down to the basement.

: Dog Judge: The court hereby finds you the most amazing and best person that ever lived!

: Today I changed my mind. The new one isn’t very good either.

: What do I have more of, concerns or money? Concerns.

: If doing things was as easy as undoing things, I’d be way more productive.

: I watched a lot of bad stand-up comedy and I wanted to offer these Jeff-approved lines for people …

: Seven Visions of Kevin Stevens i saw a squirrel his name was kevin stevens that’s what he told me spring light, waking earth the …

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