9.8 m/s, 14.7 psi.

9.8 m/s, 14.7 psi.

Lost or found?You're adrift amidst your cosmos,Held by 9.8 m/s squared, of gravity.14.7 pounds PSI, of pressure:Weight of this atmosphere upon you.Hurtling across space,Chained to thy rock.Crust all full of magma.You know nothing.To see the world as I do;As a wash of Atoms,Is both a blessing &...

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Eating My Own Tail.

Eating My Own Tail.

Ouroboros.Ancient symbolism,Chosen for connotations -To Alchemy,Witchcraft,Magic,Mythology.Metaphors powerful enough,To contain my psyche.My thousand allusions.The dozens of riddles,Or intentions,Hidden in every poem.Clues to later endeavours,Or current struggles.Eating my own tail.

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Handing It Things To Hold.

Handing It Things To Hold.

ADHD;Infinite Hunger.Like a bored toddler -Handing it things to hold.Harvest dopamine from.Choosing:Half a battle:Games,Art,Learning,Better action point choices,Than gorging on food,Sex,Substances.Fail lots.Gluttony reigning days.But unlike my idols:I'll persist,& win my ever-war.

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Melatonin Dreams.

Melatonin Dreams.

When I risk taking Melatonin;My dreams go wild.Outdoor classrooms on the mountain,Complete with shitty asshole kids.Going from abuse,Mundane,To Volcanic Eruptions,Up the mountains.Trying to use logging physics,To save shitheads,Via cuts & valleys,As we die,Flee,Down towards the ocean.

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Silent Poetry.

Silent Poetry.

That is the most dangerous,Possible,Thing. One can never speak aloud,My Poems. Warning:Riddled With Hexes,Hoaxes,Hard Truths.Write them in silence.Read them in silence.Yet never recite them aloud.Not me.Not you.I refuse. Won't be held responsible for what happens,When you\we:Do.

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Old Alchemy.

Old Alchemy.

Midnight.Clenched,Held in palm of closed fist,To drink power -Emotion redirected into intent.Old Alchemy.Converting stress into success,'Ere Heartbreak To Horror.My Witchcraft Is Simple.Spoken Word Poems,Written Digital,Lost To Time,Made Manifest In Complete Silence.Metaphors.Curses.

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Story Of A Girl.

Story Of A Girl.

The Spell Is Thus:"She shall be my finest Jester.Stand atop the world,Dancing her finest to her own beat,& drum.Be it rimshot or renegade -Ferocity & ambition is the game.She must be fierce.Hunger at greater goods.Right hand of such a Titan.Independent -Yet collaborative as an...

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Irreverent.

Irreverent.

Callous?Nay!Irreverent.World is cruel.I know.You didn't just tell me a thousand times.Lived it.Huddled under rocks,Following Impact Winters.Ancient Cryptid Histories.My time in the bush taught me:Little changed.A RIDDLE:A Jester has one job.What is that job?Why is irreverence;A must?

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Meter’s Running.

Meter’s Running.

Pause?Why?My clock is ticking.Meter's running.Mortality waits for none.Why the fuck -Is everyone always trying to stop me?Getting in my way?Never want to use my infinite mass -Against anyone.Crushing obstacles is annoying,Especially when they remain people.Alas;The cycle repeats.

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Chirp Away.

Chirp Away.

Not to posture,But rather coldly reckon:Dark malice throbbing.Broken records -Become more than the sum,Of my parts.Survived through hellscapes.Who the fuck are you?What have you accomplished?What achievements to thy name?You've no idea who I am,Nor the weight,I yet carry.Hm.Chirp away.

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Folks Who Wish Me Dead.

Folks Who Wish Me Dead.

Have family that hates me,& yet stalks me.Folks who wish me dead.Half of western society?Despises me just for being me.Who I am.Am I tired of existing?Sure am!Will I give in to everyone who hates me?No chance.Dragging my broken,Bloodied self,By the forearms,Is nothing new,At all.

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“Hark how I’ll bribe you.”

“Hark how I’ll bribe you.”

You couldn't.That's what the idiots don't get.Yes I use my real name.Have a website.Open Secret Vibes:Despise Shills & Shilling.Why else would my work be mostly free?I'll never sell out from my ideals,For cash.Not now.Not ever.Morals & Values?Worth much more to me than gold.Or silver.

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Walk Forwards, Eternal.

Walk Forwards, Eternal.

Let our gentle paths,Guide us unto salvation.Demanding Pacifism;Of ourselves.Of others.In hopes of gentler tomorrows.Ones we've never had.Never even seen.Luck?Probability is mappable.Chaos Theory;A la Three Body Problems.Clench my teeth,Grit fists with gravel,Walk Forwards,Eternal.

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Marcellus.

Marcellus.

Was Marcellus a great poet?Not particularly.Yet we share the root -In that our words come from within,To remain without.Just because he went first,Doesn't mean I won't follow.Justice remains broken.Our words remain hollow.But our voices still echo,Long past our return to Void;& Entropy.

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Sharp & Crooked.

Sharp & Crooked.

These teeth will grind,& crush themselves to dust:Insofar as thy heart is clenched between them.Sharp & crooked,Like other ancient yellowed shards of enamel.Blood pouring from ventricles,Atria.Iron I take.From you.For me.Proteins As Carnivore Truths.Unlike most wild beasts,Prefer muscle...

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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

On scales of insufferability,I do tend middling at best.Moles or growths,Plus some remains -Of keratin or cartilage spikes.Half an eyebrow missing,From a decade-old folly.Skin stretched white & purple,As far as it can;Without tearing.In some places it did,Healed back together.Suffered so...

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Graveyard For Toys. \\ Hollow Empty Black Sockets.

Graveyard For Toys. \\ Hollow Empty Black Sockets.

Forgotten amidst weeds,As ever.Cosmic equivalent,Of a graveyard for toys.Where I once came to rot -Festering,Bloating,As all flesh eventually does.'Til naught but spirit & bone,As the best of us.Hollow Empty Black Sockets.Death's Head:In full display.Madness Lies This Way.Are You Sure?

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Sour-Sweet.

Sour-Sweet.

No sense wasting all this wanting.Dragging our tongues,Along lines of sucrose.Lemon-Miracle Fruit.Sour-Sweet.Lost somewhere between.Need,I merely fill.Want,Offers chances to play.Dance!Frolic.Until the end comes,As all good things must endure.Interlapping beginnings & endings,Forever.

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No More Family To Speak Of.

No More Family To Speak Of.

This it?Deciding moment.Culling the last ties;To be completely alone.No more family to speak of.Independent at last.Autonomous,Even if I have to live in the wilds -Like a feral wildling again.Can I sever that final bond?Finally be free.Yet also so very alone.Good at that.Unfortunately.

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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...

My Greatest Lover.

Death came,Sanguine.Draping.As I've ever loved her,As all depressives have before me.Our most precious lady,Freedom -From a doomed existence.Let us danse macabre,My greatest lover.Celebrate this short existence,Like the Hedonists.No human mortal,Could ever compare.

21st Century Blues.

Over 2000 now.If I count the book,Old portfolios,Likely at 2500.Rough math.Coming up fast on Shakespeare,At 3500.Some goals;Are numbers games.Counted in speed,Persistence,Drive.You can play witness,Perhaps.Watch it happen,In real time.21st Century Blues.The beauty of a digital age.

Suddenly Growing Limbs In The Thousands.

"Futile!"They'll Say.A Cryptid Human Being,Hybrid,Neurodivergence aflame as my beacon.Legless Serpent;Suddenly Growing Limbs In The Thousands.Fighting against Entropy,Wit’ errythin’ I got.Started lower than low,On societal totem poles.Dumb Disabled Logging Family Kid,Now Second Most Prolific Poet...

Fools On Fools. \\ Fools On Fools.

People are often so quick,To dismiss me.Fools,Unknowing of my scope -Or scale.Do you know what my respect,Is worth?Do you have any concept,Of the enormity hanging?Perched above your head,Guillotine sharp?Perhaps I am too much a relic;Archaic cryptid of honor.Expecting kindness?Maybe that's what...

Noblesse Oblige.

What Legacy,Do We Want To Leave Behind?As I write this epitaph for my species,I wonder what lessons,Can be learned from our failures.Shortsighted Greed -Petty Oligarchies Of Narcissists…Does Humanity,Even deserve to be remembered?Noblesse Oblige.Or am I naive to honor such a notion?

Hidden Spells.

They'll cobble together my poems, Hoping to find spells in the margins. Hints of my blackest magicks, Hidden in my words, Abstracted by my letters, 'Ere left in plain sight.

Wielding Intent.

We wield our intent,With the weight of our ancestors.Callous & Cruel.Cackle for a madman -Who holds his,Like a steel pipe.Trickster changelings,From another time.Dead in droves,Ground to pulp -As meat for the machine.Good luck,I profer freely.As a blood cursed fool.

Tired of Fighting.

I am tired of fighting.To exist.To survive.To simply be.Born wrong,Into a world that hates you.Black strings,Dragging on the soul by the dozens.Eventually they slow you down,Your stubborn survivalism fades.You surrender to it.Let yourself drown in the inky pools. Let the black ichor rise,Slowly...

Unstoppable.

Not death,Nor man,Nor fury,Can stand in my way.I am a cryptid,Possessed by spirits.Nothing will stop me.

Shadowbanned From Success.

Shadowbanned from success,Left scorned -As usual,By neurotypicals.Those masters of the world,Would I trade these gifts -For Executive Function.Possibly would.Playing the chameleon,Is exhausting.Masking is straight up bullshit.Tired of begging for scraps.I want it all.

Want To Laugh Forever.

Laughter.Joy.Perhaps all my trauma,Or abuse,Is the reason I value Jesters,& Comedy,So highly.After terrors we've seen…Appreciate smiling -Even once in a while.Short story long.Long story short.Want to laugh forever,Free of the endless darkness,Least for a little while.Moments,Even.

Old Theatre Teacher Like Me –

I don't write plays,Or scripts,Anymore.Fiction is better utilized,In individuality.Books.Poems.I know.Old Theatre Teacher like me -That's heresy,Right?Ain't no auteur wannabe,Would just weave my best work -In eternal formats anyway.My best moves have always been here,Based in Reality.

A Witches’ Guide To Overload; Common Psychosis.

A Witches' Guide To Overload;Common Psychosis.Questions.Even if you've only half the answers ready.Hit a question,With a question.More high brow,More confusion.Keep Paradoxes In Thy Back Pockets -Learning Misdirection,Sleight of Hand,Or Social Engineering,As Politicians or Magicians do.

Atonement.

Those of you that fear gods,Pray for me.For I fear none of them,A heretic through and through.Pagan?By whose definition?I am of the old gods,Old when Christ was born.Jotnar,Demigod.Sinner of a thousand truths.Demon of all demons.Shadow beyond the pale.Your end. Pray for my wicked soul,He who...

Marks Of Healing.

You don't know me.Can't fix me.Because I'm no longer broken.Can you see these scars?These are the marks of healing,So many open wounds -Festering for decades.Holes in our hearts,& souls.You want to fix me?Nay.Let me teach you,The Stoic Monk,The Harbinger of Ragnarok.