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I'm chronically early as well and for the same reasons. Title generating is a great exercise. I'm going to try it!

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1. Remember That Time I Puked in the Ficus Tree at Denny’s?

2. The Snuff Cruise

3. And That is Why She Hired a New Carpenter

Yup. Weird.

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Thanks for the fun exercise, Jason. I plan on coming back to it!

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Jun 11, 2022Liked by Jason McBride

This is a fun exercise, thanks!

1. Things I Forgot To Do While Planning What I Was Going To Do Next

2. The Ink In My Pen Has Long Since Run Dry

3. Contained Within Silver-sided Cups, Thought Runs Free

4. 400 100-yen Coins

5. Ere Overmorrow, Less So Yesterday

I'll admit that at least four of these came to me while seated here at my desk.

Two additional thoughts:

1. One of my formative poetry books was Bukowski's "Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Start to Bleed a Bit," which is why this exercise felt a little familiar to me, I think.

2. The first time I saw Pearl Jam play live, they played Elderly Woman... Eddie made the whole crowd stay silent until he could say the whole name aloud. At the time I thought it was kind of a powermad thing to do, but you've helped me reinterpret that moment.

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