Wel-

Wel-

Lust?Foreign To Me.Sounds Annoying,To Be Always Wanting,Never Having.Can Empathize Though -With you rabid allosexuals.My dopamine drips,Are always a drop too empty.Yet regardless of how good I am,At something -Some things just become a chore.Alien?Sure.Queer?Definitely.Strange?Wel-

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But it’s ’bout how you’d choose to use ’em.

But it’s ’bout how you’d choose to use ’em.

Tell me no secrets,'Cause then I have to keep them -To my graves.Metaphor Or Literal.Truth Is Sacrosanct,But Silence Is Golden.Learning Golden Moments,By Holding Quiet Space For Contemplation.Could teach you a million lessons,Simply in proximity.But it's 'bout how you'd choose to use 'em.

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So Remain Harsher.

So Remain Harsher.

collecting titles like tombstonesForget-Me-Not."Remember Me."Reverberating in a chorus of echoing,Overlapping voices,Across time.Reality Is Harsh.So Remain Harsher.What's a fucking title worth?Cannot eat paper.These self reflections?History'll remember.What's bearing a soul even worth?

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Drifting up to taut,

Drifting up to taut,

Which Ends;To Which Means,Again?Anonymity,Fame,Both just means to me,Never ends.Prefer former,Because you can't undo latter.Something about cats & bags.Let Us Out!No.These Thousand Selves.Chained to marble floors,Drifting up to taut,Drowned,When crystal clear water floods our room.

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No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.

No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.

No,Don't celebrate christmas anymore.Too much capital-t Trauma.Holidays were always expectations.You did what they wanted.So they did what they wanted.Love is somewhat foreign to me still -Hermit Guru Evermore,No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.Poe.Bastard only wrote 50 Poems.Just another day.

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THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.

THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.

Thunderous Applause.To hear it is to know mob mentality.Chanting names of gods or men.All just food,At end of the day.THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.Microbes To Plankton,Viruses Or Water Bears.Nigh Immortal,Unlike You & I.gods,Become kinetic energy -stored as fat,as any carnivore

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Thriving Better Because Of It.

Thriving Better Because Of It.

Christmas Day To Me,Is Just Another Day.Excommunicated Immediate Family;Thriving Better Because Of It.No Killers,Addicts,Fools,Ignorant Fuckheads,To speak down to me anymore.FAMILY?THOSE ARE PEOPLE,THAT TEAR YOU APART,RIGHT?GASLIGHT YOU INTO MISERY?!?No,Sans Abuse -Alone is better.

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“God rest you merry”

“God rest you merry”

Gentlemen,I've a tisket,Tasket,Whole pic-i-nic basket,Yogi or BooBoo,Taking Literary Legends,Smashing them like atoms,Into 1900s Zeitgeists.My Poems Are More -Than 168 In Number.Free Verse,Unshackled,Unlike A Sonnet,Or Limerick.No Letters Per Line,To Rhyme By,Like Fucking Children.

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Bastion. \\ The Tempest.

Bastion. \\ The Tempest.

Roiling Dervish,Wind,Stone,Rain.Everything but fire,Which we used metal & oil to create.To devour wood.To make metal.An endless cycle I might never,Have escaped.Cryptid of the woods -Fled the forests.Glamours thrown up with care;Too queer for most.Bastion.Tempest.New/Old Stories.Who can say...

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Or ’cause I ate ’em all.

Or ’cause I ate ’em all.

Your Gods Don't Exist.Either 'cause they never did to begin with,Or 'cause I ate 'em all.Synthesized faith into freedom,Escaped Dogma & Indoctrination. But you love chains.Enjoy a taste of mud,Upon boots you lick. Can only save ourselves;From that Hive Mind of ignorance. Hear:It's...

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To Bradbury’s Credit,

To Bradbury’s Credit,

Fahrenheit 451:To Bradbury's Credit,Ends hopeful.I?Raised;Coastal Salish Cultural Worldviews…Oral History makes sense.Memory.Storytelling,More potent than paper.The End?Guy Montag Learns To Storytell:Memorizing great stories.Memories.Histories.Kept safe against flames,In our minds.

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Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.

Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.

Forgotten:Many lines or thoughts.Not written down:Thus lost forever.Thinking:In excess.Forever:The Infinite Hunger.Greater:Than I could ever be.Gargantuan:Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.Frail Body:Meat. Bone. Gristle. Fat.Our Legacy:Shortsighted stupidities.Fate:Extinctions.

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Reptilian Origins,

Reptilian Origins,

Reptilian Origins,Or perhaps back to LUCA,In eras of Rust formation en masse.Banded Iron Formations As Textbooks =Handy Cross-Sections Of Prehistory.Who,Me?Indie Underground;Nobody wants to hear,What I have to say!I just want knowledge.Education.A more intelligent,Self-aware species.

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Am I shopping at pyres?

Am I shopping at pyres?

Stayed my own executions:But am I merely laying down…A different sentence?Instead of dying in the dark alone -Imbibing whole bottles of pills,Failing.Have I merely decided:Burn out bright?Entropic Truths.Am I shopping at pyres?Fires to self-immolate;To use myself as fuel for progress.

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We Were Fearless.

We Were Fearless.

Beaten down so oft:We were fearless.Dissociational existences.No "Me" anymore.Killed my old dead selves,Myself.But a lack of Fear,Is hardly a benefit.Standing up to anyone;Against injustice,Isn't how this broken capitalist oligarchy,"Works."Bigger men.Bigger wealth.I'll fight them all.

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“Get Famous?”

“Get Famous?”

Entropy Always Wins.Humans Can't Stop It,Fight As I Might -In Love & Hate.Self Reflection,Self Awareness,Constant Practices Over Decades.Finding Peace.Learning To Romance Enemies.Supervillains Playing At Lovers.Enlightenment In Madness;Hermit Guru Upon The Mountaintops."Get Famous?"Nah.

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Cold Iron Ball & Chain –

Cold Iron Ball & Chain –

Maybe I'll publish the month remaining,On Christmas Day.Stupid gifts -To a species that reviles me.Hate their traditions,Insofar as they represent much more.Religious indoctrinations,For two millennia.Cold Iron Ball & Chain -Around the ankles of Humanity.Wish to see,Our truest potentials.

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SleepWakeSleepWake.

SleepWakeSleepWake.

Sleep.Wake.Sleep.Wake.Our Failing As Human,Shared with most blooded vertebrates.Myself,Cursed more than most.Frequently needing twelve hours,Just to feel functional.Is it a side effect?Of my strange neuro-chemistry?Freak.Retard.Fag.All the slurs I've been called.Sleep.Wake.

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Old Witch: Asleep.

Old Witch: Asleep.

No More Culling Rituals.Force Of Will,Playing True.Always Forgetting The One.For Decades.Supercomputer,Or that shitty Jack Black Panda Turtle.Hell,Dumb Disabled Logging Family Kid.I cannot lie,Unless joking.I'm guilty.Guilty.I chose this Pygmalion Complex.Laid Flowers,Upon Graves.Wept for...

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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...

The Cascades,

The Cascades,As good a place to die -As any.Trillions of trees,Millions of fish.I can smell Gaia,Across the conifers.Raised a cryptid well,Despite the times they tried to kill me.All's in good fun,Right?The food chain,Is an ultimate example -Of The Brutal Calculus.

Poisoned Kool-Aid.

"Write A Religion,Then!Prove It Manipulates Us!"Poisoned Kool-Aid,Wasn't enough of a red flag for you?Unlike Hubbard,Make sure to label my Fictions,Plus My Reality.Faith is indeed a powerful tool,Plus a formidable weapon.The demand?Just give me enough time.Education.Critical Thinking…Then I Won't...

Read Foucault, If You Don’t Believe Me.

Fuck your MLA format.Fuck the colleague who scolded my capitalization choices,Too!Sometimes that'll be a title.Sometimes it's the name of a concept,Or idea.Proper Nouns are everywhere,Doofuses.Names continue to hold power,In this modern era of ours.Read Foucault,If you don't believe me.

Curb Stomped.

Justice is broken.Neocolonial systems of control -Favor some,Damn others.Usually racist,As prison demographics don't lie!There's no real justice anymore.Governments don't give two fucks,About any Social Contract,Shattered across the pavement,Like a skull full of brain.Just want control.

Weird Eccentric Self.

Fuck you.All the people that hate me.Everyone who glares at my painted nails,When I walk down the street.Queer,Neurodiverse,Traumatized.You've no idea what horrors,I've witnessed firsthand.This?I only offer my kindness,& opportunity.I'll be my weird eccentric self,Regardless of you.

Paradox Of Intolerance Is On Fire.

Sex Positivity;In an age of brutal regression.Conservative Traditionalist Bigots -Brainwashed by Organized Religions,To be as backwards & anti progressive,As possible.Paradox of Tolerance is on fire.Queer folks,Disabled folks,Everyday people.Told what to do or say & who to fuck.Bullshit!

Championing The Damned.

LET ENDINGS COME!I have borne a thousand endings.Championed a hundred sunsets.Defeated innumerable demons.Master of a million destinies,Savior of one,At least,Hopefully.Another stepping stone.Another path towards enlightenment.Let the Buddhists self-immolate.Let monsters breed.Stand...

Punk Mosh Faux Pas.

Justice,I've learned over the decades,Is a word often repeated,But mostly in hollow tones.One sided interpretations,Subject to follies of a system.Or:Bias of those who interpret such disciplines.Underdog Riots.Anarchist Block Parties.Punk Mosh Faux Pas.Fuck thy "Justice."I've my own.

Gluttony, Incarnate.

Failure,Again.Only hurting myself,With each mistake.Every poor decision I make.This damn disability!Brain gone wrong.No executive function;Only now.& not now.Time Blind.Addicted to dopamine,Filling our lack of it.Many with such a deficit -Fall victim to vice.Me?Gluttony,Incarnate.

Goodnight, Void #8555

This midnight spell as ever -Brings us together,As Infinity stretches forever.Closer we get to touching,More exponentials there are between us.Event Horizons;Black Hole Son.Bending Space & Time both!Evidence that it can happen.Proof it can be done.Reaching for you,Still.Goodnight,Void.

This Is How I Will Take You, Second.

This is how I will take you.Second,Reaching into your hearts,Wrenching forth the cancers.Crush them in my fists.Black tar,Dripping from between my fingers.Inoculate you against greed,A hunger for power.Teach you the ways of peace,Show you a brighter future.Please.

Goodnight, Void. Void, Goodnight.

No good reason.Seldom any good answers.Populated Sandboxes,Shouldn't Be Hard To Build.But some things are easy,Just time consuming.Others are instantaneous,& nigh impossible.Goodnight,Void.Void,Goodnight.Symmetry In Mirrored Fashions,Like Racing Game Alterations,For Different Seasons.

Millions Of Years Of Death.

Needing to become stronger,Yet.Once upon a time?For myself.For vanity.For pride.For war.Many times,For many firsts.Now;I must become stronger for them:Every living soul -Echoing millions of years of death.Ancient evolutionary branches,Long extinct.Their ghosts;Driving me forward.

Alas, Our Time Is Ending – Darling.

Alas,Our time is ending - darling.I loved you as you came.Fraught with the most beautiful scars,Dried flower -Frozen in gorgeous decay.Each petal a fragment of time.I am smoke,Breathe me in.Whilst the world burns down.Your lovely bones,Ground to dust.What else are we?

Protecting The Weak.

The strong,Must protect the weak.Therein lies the burden of the strong. Muscle & steel,Willpower & charisma.Borne from the wilds,Black magic in my veins -I'll bite apart their chains. World Serpent wiles,Not jealous,Only precocious. This fortress,I'll lend to you.