Sturgeon's Law

My idea notebook has lots of random crap written in it that will never be used in a poem or anything else, but I always feel bad about getting rid of it, just in case. Therefore, I'm going to post some of the interesting but unusable stuff here symbolically, so I can say I used it and not have it clutter up my notebook anymore.

• "Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads": This was the headline of a "weird news" sort of story that I found really funny out of context. But c'mon, if the situation is ever right to use it in a poem, I bet I can remember it without the notebook.
• "See Eucharist": This phrase concludes the entry on cannibalism in Diderot's Encyclopedia. I picked this up from a New Yorker article whose topic I forget (quick research tells me it was Wikipedia), and it amuses me, but it really doesn't fit my poetic style on a lot of fronts and isn't me-genuine.
• "Buffalonian": I told AJPL I'd write a poem with that word in it, and I actually wrote it (the word, not the poem) down, but I gots nothing.
• "Mind Eraser": This is actually the name of a roller coaster at Elitch Gardens in Denver, but for some reason I wrote this down. Actually, I think I had it connected to a prose idea, so maybe it can switch notebooks once I get back into prose after New Year.
• "Truly I go away, but tarry thou until I come again": I think this is a line from Jesus to the Wandering Jew. See note on the Diderot quotation.
• "The Water Goblin": From a Slavic story Dvorak made into an interesting if overlong tone poem. I actually tried to write this as a story once, and there's nothing I want to do with it as a poem.
  

"If that's what they take out, what they leave in must be pure gold!" - Troy McClure, The Simpsons (that's not in my notebook--it's just a commentary on this stuff)