Genderless.

Genderless.

This existence,Is amorphous -Genderless.Titans with ever-changing form.Trapped in this meat cage,Doomed to die inside.Unchanging.Frail.If only humanity believed in science.'Ere new forms,Could come with technology.Relying as we do,On ancient magics,Blood curse power.

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Fuck Astrologies.

Fuck Astrologies.

There's only you,& me.Two planets,Circling each other in orbits.Fuck astrologies -Give me true witchcraft.Will made manifest upon reality,Power etched in desire,Want,Release.Siphoning the power of black holes,Drinking protons.Fueling spells with blood,Or sacrifice.

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Haunting A Universe.

Haunting A Universe.

I'll be there -Soul reaching out,Untold trillions upon trillions.Even entropy is finite.When the last black hole is dying,This spirit will live on.Haunting a universe,Defects & all.I'll remember you,When all is said & done.This story deserves to be told.Eh,Humanity?

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Poor Kids.

Poor Kids.

A real challenge of maturity,We never tell children:Other people are cruel,Nasty, brutish, and shortsighted.They will remain hostile in the face,Of the "other."Be it truth,Or other people.We rarely tell them;To avoid such ugly souls -For sake of their own happiness,Or sanity.Poor Kids.

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Tiny Lights, To Guide Them In The Dark.

Tiny Lights, To Guide Them In The Dark.

As ever,I can't be stopped.Only my death will do it.Words unto words unto words -Regardless of who treats me unkindly,Or stands in my path.This Urban Myth,My Legend,Isn't even halfway done.All this:Was never for you.It was for those yet unborn.Tiny lights,To guide them in the dark.

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Blacklist.

Blacklist.

Have a blacklist,On my phone's shitty little notes app,Far under where I put my To Do List,Other little planning.People or organizations,Who have been crooked,Mean,Or cruel.Those who've straw-manned me,To no end.No ill intent;Just a promise to avoid them,For the rest of my life,No matter what.

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“we see The water swell before a boist’rous storm.”

“we see The water swell before a boist’rous storm.”

Tempest,Turned Bastion.Coasts of our youth,Reflected in another artist's eyes.Not even my own,Sans reading it.Knowing which or whom,Each thread existed for.Me?Ugly.Born like this.Here,Would be spoken of as a wild woman,Snatching up children -In basket upon my back -To feast upon later.

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Goodnight, Void #1101

Goodnight, Void #1101

Goodnight, Void.These cycles have to end.Cannot exist as this fractal echo,Shattered,Rebuilt,Smashed,Welded Back Into Shape.Bones Crushed,Powdered & Burned.Charcoal Carbon Added To Iron:Steel,Galvanized Against Rust.Better Parts Out,Than In.Bone & Iron,Have Been Cheap For A Long Time.

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Infamy.

Infamy.

Nah,I get it.Infamy.Opposite of Fame.Infamous.Foil To Famous.Drop Cut.Record Scratch.Fourth Wall Hanging By One Nail.Pluck It.Wall Remains Motionless,Until driving nail into palm.Real talk?People talk shit about me all goddamn day.Gossip.Rumor Monger.So I leaned into Villain bits.

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Cull Me.

Cull Me.

Cull me.For using website as name,To prove I'm real.Whilst preaching free art.Not another faceless,Vapid fuck.Gritting,Bearing teeth.Frustration at stupidity,To no proper end.From orbital satellite view,Railgun round lands off trajectory,My dissociation missing my anger,By degrees. Ha

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Lines In Dust.

Lines In Dust.

Art is my last bastion.A tiny empire,Walls made up of lines,Drawn with my finger in the dust.Evidence of time.My own,Mostly.Drawing Away.Hourglasses never bothered me.Brain always fired faster - than such falling grains of sand.So here I am.Standing before infinite void,Everything after.Pitch...

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Lysosomes.

Lysosomes.

Measuring days in dying,Us prone to cancers,Praying Lysosomes fire -When they're supposed to.Prone to mutation.Therefore prone to death.Grandfather at 67,Prostate.Lungs to -Gallbladder,A Few Among The Rest.You,Can't guarantee me anything.Might already be dead.My Mortality?My One Assurance.

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“Forever & A Day.”

“Forever & A Day.”

Enough to,Make you,Want to,Cry.As if such a thing; t’were my dead selves.Fragile things - old selves reeking of ego,Smashed to smithereens upon floors,Only to reconstruct myself again,Using the same broken pieces."Forever & A Day:"That'll be Title.Where one finally breaks,In quiet...

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Mkatakes make me human

Mkatakes make me human

Mkatakes make me human.Human.Don't wanna be Human,Anymore.Homo Sapiens Sapiens.Stupid.Cruel.Manipulative.Mean.Just so tired.Of pettiness.Smallness.Singularity.Please.As if a throne EVER FUCKING MATTERED.To people like me,Just a fancy chair.Waste,Of resources.Fuck Thrones.

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BUT FOR THOSE TINY PINPRICKS OF LIGHT!

BUT FOR THOSE TINY PINPRICKS OF LIGHT!

BUT FOR THOSE TINY PINPRICKS OF LIGHT!Lovely souls,Kind numbers.Few but far between.Across entire worlds,Most often.Must trudge onward,No matter how many scornful minds,There are.Let these projection lights be pinpricks:Holes through screens.Be my stars,Upon these forever-dark walls.Waltzing As...

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Choke Chain.

Choke Chain.

Misanthropy pulls at the leash,Tightening this choke chain,Ever tighter around my neck.For every kind heart?Dozen wretches.Cruel by nature,Or from damage gained elsewhere.Not just one.Never just one.Entire communities blacklisted,In eidetic rolodexes.Quantitative Analysis Of Behaviour In Data...

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Sondering Entire Worlds.

Sondering Entire Worlds.

Almost!Building new civilization;From scratch.With a little dreaming twist -As ever.Gifts of psychics -Folding every mind together,Unto hive mind awareness.Sondering entire worlds:Fighting for progress,Survival,Change for good.Culminations in Singularity.Just another Friday Night Dream.

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Handwaving.

Handwaving.

Fuck Genocide!I choose life.Religious Zealots of all denominations;Across Abrahamic lines - mostly.Murdering each other,In droves.Ugly massacres,Of innocent civilians,All because Independence,Or Extermination,Dance across global Geopolitics.Old white men:Handwaving,Protecting Monsters.

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The Pickup Truck Diaries: “The Second Most Prolific Poet In History” & Goal Setting.

Let’s start this edition of The Pickup Truck Diaries with a rhetorical question: “How does one go about achieving the goals they’ve set for themselves?” I’ll give you a few minutes to pause and think about that. Most folks have already started churning their brains into realistic “brass tacks”...

Central Universe Science Fiction Shorts: An Update!

Campfire. Come gather 'round the campfire. Let me tell you a story. Several small ones, in fact! It started a month or two ago, when I had a bunch of hits on "Our Better Angels" via the 'ol analytics. Now, I've been running this little business for half a decade - so out of neurotic perfectionism,...

McRae’s MTG Corner: The Rainbow Bible. (AKA The Rukarumel “Gay Pirates!” Tribal Tribal CEDH Primer.)

WARNING: This piece clocks in at 62,000+ words. It currently holds the record for longest "CEDH Primer" ever written. (Although it's more like a textbook or resource guide to Tribal Archetypes, and Rainbow/5c Magic, really.) It is over half the size of my sci fi books. Please remember to drink...

McRae’s MTG Corner: Tempo For Dummies (Especially For Commander.)

Aight, we back yet again. Somehow in my long years of being an L1 Judge and Modern and EDH player, I had never realized that learning tempo in Magic The Gathering is a rather visceral experience, in that you learn experientially. For the layman, that means that you have to learn that deep sense of...

McRae’s MTG Corner: Siloing CEDH & EDH

Ew, I got CEDH in my EDH… Today we’re here to talk about power levels in the casual commander format, as well as how to encourage better CEDH & EDH play by more carefully separating the two formats despite their strange interwoven nature. As a “retired” L1 Judge for Magic: The Gathering, I’m...

Rise, Behemoth.

Rise, Behemoth.Gargantuan Leviathans,Like Us?Cannot Sleep The Universe Away.I see you -Fractals of possibility,Held in suspended animations.Truesight,To some.Pattern Recognition,To others.Wake.Rise.Rouse.You may be trapped by that monk,For now.But to slumber so thus,Is sacrilege.

Supervillainy Complexes.

Infamous,As rote.Don't know if I've ever had…Any good reputation.Ever.After enough years of gossip,Shit talking,And other abuse -I gave up trying to protect or cultivate,Some fucking public image.The very few people that know me well,Then the rest who revile me.Supervillain,Indeed.

Welded Steel.

Show me your heart -AGAIN!Raw & bloody.Weigh it upon the scales,Against feathers.Can never pass on,Even after death.Heart's too heavy,Weighed down by trial,Trauma.Wounds.Welded steel.Show me your everything.Soul as you inhabit,The fundamental core,Of your being.

Shameless Flirt.

Come at me hot and heavy,Bring the big guns.Elephant gauge.Mortars and flakk guns.Nuclear bombs.Only vulnerable to cutting words,Broken dreams,Long,Slow,Goodbyes.I want your fire,PASSIONS.Your brutal truths,Your deepest strengths.Come at me with everything you are.

Like Fucking Invalids.

Talked down to constantly,Zero Clue.Neurotypicals -As usual.Treating neurodivergent people,Like fucking invalids.Frequent daily ableism.Accused of ego!What maroons;Oblivious to ego deaths,Or vast depositories of wisdom,& knowledge.Humility Versus Confidence.Know the fucking difference!

The Company You Keep.

The Company You Keep: The folk that linger at the periphery,Failing to engage or share a kind thought unless it is to -Contradict,Berate,Talk down,Belittle,Virtue signal,Sneer,Flagellate,Corrupt,Rant,Rave,Exclude,Break empathy,Lack compassion,Or to break down your spirit.Regardless of whether...

The Grin Tells All.

Color of certainty.Quiet reflections,In lieu of any meditation.Nothingness was the state I came in.Pygmalion,True.The act of dissection:The Infinite Deconstruction of The Self.Then;The Tenfold Divinity.The Infinite Hunger.The Long Road Home.A shitty monk.I do not clear my mind,In quiet...

Feeding Is Ritualized.

Feeding,Is ritualized.Anxiety Disorder fuelling a world serpent's eyes.Yellow.Slitted.Gaze,Size of small moons.Proximity,Gifts me divine insight into a soul.Observing virtues,Qualities,Strengths,Weaknesses.A studying logic.Hearts matter most -Drinking kindness,Blessing them in turn.

Such Massive Creation Comes With A Cost.

Painting universes to life,Skill acquired in decades of solitude,Years of rampancy,Madness.Belief made real.Real made imaginary.Magic of sorts,Transforming.As some myths or legends do.Not that kind of cryptid.Dealing rather in black magic,Blood curses.Blessings.Nay,Deal in boons,Banes.Drinking...

To That Great Void.

We spin these fictions,For many reasons.Mostly just to create similar circumstances,As cold fusion.Nuclear or metaphorical;It remains the same.Infinite loops,Creating exponentials.More out,Than put in.Energy,Or dopamine.My custom-built engines,Versus theirs."Multiple Discovery."The concepts of...

Ouroboros Symbolism.

Those who know, What this ouroboros means. Rejoice. Alchemy dictates - Equivalent exchange. Witchcraft speaks of spirit. Science is holy. Learned darkest magics. Paying in sacrifice of the self. Blood. Agony. Hurt. Yet a kamikaze knows, One can still do good, With one's...

Savant Streak Ferocity.

My love?It's a dangerous thing,In the wrong hands.The force of a thousand nuclear detonations,Spread out across a single lifetime.Devotion until death,As an unstoppable force.Savant streak ferocity.A love that dedicates itself,As surely as ecosystems form.And collapse.

Masters of Fiction; In Distortions of Truth.

There was no Paradise Lost.In that Milton & his ilk -Are my bedfellows.Masters of fiction;In distortions of truth.Written in times when meaning had to be misconstrued,For the public eye.Old power struggles of religion;All of its' harms.That paradise never existed,To begin with.I know now.

I’ll Keep Punching Nazis, Until I Do, Though.

Punk Can Never Die.I'll keep punching Nazis,Until I do,Though.Fighting for freedom,Never felt so cathartic -Than it does in this Century.Bear bare teeth!Borne of birthing borrowed bastards!Bitch.We were always fucking unwanted.Tell me something I don't know,You fucking hack of a tool.

Roving Dream Hermit.

The dreams that aren't nightmares -Have one shared feature.I'm packing up my life,Moving like a hermit yet again.Or out in the wilds,Journeying.Bags packed,Going somewhere.Devoid of any true home.What is my subconscious telling me?With all my belongings ready to go.