“Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?”

“Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?”

So am I.My heart fracturing,Fragmenting into ten thousand pieces.As if I hadn't just finally,Reassembled the shards.Will this laughter,Eventually die?No longer cackle;Grim macabre,Morbid Humor,Black sarcasm.From dark,Back to dark.I want to laugh.I do.Perhaps I'm forgetting how.

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Alone Like Nikola.

Alone Like Nikola.

But that's my fate,Perhaps.To be alone like Nikola,Until I die.Nobody wants me.Nobody needs me.So I remain the Hermit.Avoiding other Humans,Out of disgust with their ignorance,Or bigotry.Never shit talk others in private,But fucking hell do I get shit talked about,Like it's going out of style.

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“Equality.”

“Equality.”

What a piece of shit.Holding my opinions & values -Equal to those,Of my shitty, chronic liar kin.My six years of university?Equal to some right wing conspiracy,Spewed by an idiot.My two degrees,Decade of teaching experience?Ignored.Somehow -Hypocrisy.Ignorance.Thrives.

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Goodnight, Void #308

Goodnight, Void #308

Goodnight,Void.Never been as angry,As this past few years.Seeing people finally for who they are.Ugly bigots.Wretched kin,Who spread lies with nary a fact check.Who hate people like me.Perhaps that.Deepest betrayal.Family.Stabbing me through the holes in my ribcage,Until I've no blood left to bleed.

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Afraid To Love.

Afraid To Love.

I'm afraid to love.Sure of the hurt that will come,Certain of the loneliness that persists.Trying to heal what is broken,After it has been shattered across the floor,However many times before.Such love is deep,Echoing the infinite depths like whalesong.Yet fragile,Still.

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For Whom Truth & Fact Are Divinities.

For Whom Truth & Fact Are Divinities.

For someone like me?For whom truth & fact are divinities?Lies are worse than poison.Those who spew false propaganda -Are dishonourable curs.Ignorant cowards,Too stupid to bother looking for truth.The exact disease,Plaguing our species.Leading us to extinction.Fuck these right wing idiots.

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I’ll Disown Them Fucking All.

I’ll Disown Them Fucking All.

Speaking to The Void,Just to cement resolve.As of now:Refuse to talk politics with family,Ever again.My knowledge treated as dogshit,As they do the same shitty garbage forever more.Believing in,Voting for conservatives,No matter what.Lying.Shifting goal posts.Me,Forced to "prove it."Never them.

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Right Wing Political Supporters:

Right Wing Political Supporters:

Right Wing Political Supporters:Step one;Be naturally stupid & easily led,Usually tricked via one's ignorance,Bigotry,Or arrogance.Abuse either their inability to think critically,Or their apathy & sloth,To never verify what they're told.Step Two;Fall for populist politics,Repeat...

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“He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.”

“He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.”

Such slander was a norm.Fighting:Morals,Mine Vs. Theirs.Playing Imperative:My myths & legends,Always skewed evil.Leaned into the bit.Neurodivergent Life.Heard it all to my face:Retard.Gay.Fag.Gossip & rumors follow my wake,In this Universe.So I only speak truth;Detesting their lies.

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Modern Slavery By Another Name. // Oligarch Cabals.

Modern Slavery By Another Name. // Oligarch Cabals.

Whelp.What else can we do?Individuals,Fighting for our futures.Any other than this one!Billions of people -All struggling against the yoke,Of wage slavery capitalism.Modern slavery by another name,Of course.As oligarch cabals;Dictate everything about our lives.Money "talking," still.

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Where Falsehood & Lying Is Normalized.

Where Falsehood & Lying Is Normalized.

Those Who Believe Everything,At Face Value,Are already lost.Somehow lacking a critical thinking lens,To observe things from all angles.Close.Distant.Near.Far.If only those of us,Who refuse to speak lies,Weren't doomed!Wading through a society -Where falsehood & lying is normalized.Ew.

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Don’t Want Your Money.

Don’t Want Your Money.

Nah.Fuck Capitalism.Starving Artist as I am,Or not.I'll never sell you something,With enthusiasm.Despise shills & shilling with a passion.Myself or others.All kinds.I make my art for my own dopamine.People can take it or leave it as they want.Autonomy.No coercion.Don't want your money.

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Teaching Those Who Refuse To Learn.

Teaching Those Who Refuse To Learn.

Fools.Cursed in ignorance or dogma,More than not.Is that part of my own curse,In return?To spend eternity amongst them:Correcting misinformation & lies,Teaching those who refuse to learn.Even the clever,Can succumb to ignorance.Wallowing in it like mud,Refusing to grow:Stagnant.Stupid.

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For Gods Who Never Existed.

For Gods Who Never Existed.

Derelict rusted ships along deserted shores.Groaning metal skeletons in the wind.Hundreds of wrecks denoting sacrifices.Fighting blindly to their deaths;For gods who never existed.

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A Different Hunger.

A Different Hunger.

Let me play grotesquerie,Rolls upon rolls of fat.Endlessly consuming -Often just for dopamine.I've existed at all points,Across spectrums.Athlete,Thin & lean.Obese,Round & slow.Don't need help -I've been collecting wisdoms,For decades.But;Need to find an old resolve.A Different Hunger.

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Divine Decay.

Divine Decay.

Thriving Rot.Divine Decay.Thinking back in millions,To times when trees fell,Yet remained.No fungal dissolvers,To reclaim such biomass.We.Us.Dragging out such old corpses -Flora Plus Fauna,As Coal.Crude.Gas.Prefer decomposition,To becoming a future source of fuel.Rotting,Even now.

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My Husk. My Home. My Prison.

My Husk. My Home. My Prison.

Wretched hive of flesh & bone.Cellular makeups -Trapping us in these frail mortal shells.Carapaces to wear as carcinisations.No armor made of Metaphor,Can deny genetics,Or flailing alleles.My husk.My home.My prison.Trapped behind these grey eyes,In this slowly aging body,Until my death.

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A Lack Of Fear.

A Lack Of Fear.

Valor?No.Not courage or bravery,In excess.Rather;A Lack Of Fear.Grim confidence,Underlit with dark conviction.Malice crushed in my fists,To ensure cold calculation,Clean.Lacking any self-preservation instincts:Ready for my own slaughter -If it means I take my enemies down with me.

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Dreams Of Kepler.

Dreams Of Kepler.

To placate my ghosts,Lovely flock,I do haunt my homeworld.Familiar orbits.Dreams of Kepler.Perfect ranges for carbon based life.Foolish Necromancers,Play corpses & spirits.Me?Dark Arts powered -By every single death on Earth,That has ever happened.Wielding extinction events as diesel.

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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...

Down, Up, Left, Right.

Ticking Down?Tocking Up?Left-Right Decisions,Every minute of our day:>>>>>Laugh.Cackle.Chortle.Guffaw.Chuckle.Giggle.Wheeze.Rancor.Scowls.Titter.Smirks.Grins.Smiles.Smarm.<<<<<Enough doddering about,Faffing,Colloquialisms be damned.Thank fuck Limmericks,Are mostly dead.^^^^^

Goodnight: Void. NumberAshenStrawMouth

Goodnight:Void.No one else.None deserve it.One day,Hope hate will stop.Can escape such pettiness,Ugly,For.Good.No more being strawman,Set aflame,Burning again & again.So,Like a Telltale game:"McRAE WILL REMEMBER THIS."Blacklist.Avoid.Move on.No names.Mere ash in my straw mouth.

Legend Has It.

The fate of World Serpents,Is to herald the end of the world.To summon apocalypse,To kill every last living soul.Legend has it,They molt beneath the oceans,Twixt whale-fall and reef.Lured only by ox-heads,And the challenge of combat.Teeth lockjawed upon their tails.

Batterglass.

Give up the ghost, pressed hard against the window panes.Slow soothing movements in a crush, glaciers riveting stones to stones.Remember your place, remember your place. Rising dawn and frosty morning dew, scatter-drop spiderwebs of ice.It's only a dream, reaching out into a void of white clouds...

Divine Suffering.

The Buddhists,Call it divine suffering,As if suffering isn't constant,Barometer of reality itself.Nirvana,Enlightenment.Rediscover it -Every trip into madness.Relearning serenity,Appreciation,Acceptance.I am many things,Infinite selves.A monk -Merely one guise.

Dreamland.

A dozen roses, with daggers posed as stems,A half-hundred thousand eyeballs, sleeping REM,A silver-tongued promise, a tale as old as time,Tear your soul a new one, a reflection in a dime, Hunger like a graveyard, silence like a sin,Ghosting ever-after, don’t do things on whim,Coupled once with...

Burn.

Burn.Never go gentle into any good night.Let the flames consume your spirit,Lift you to greater heights.Affix your wings with titanium,So there is no wax to melt -As you approach the sun.Daedalus shall not weep.Bangs, not whispers!Howl.The legacy of a poet.Nothing less

Queer.

Demisexual,Leaning towards polyamory.Yet willing to bear the chains of monogamy -For one woman.Would die for her.These selves,Could be a tool for more,More than just these lofty goals.It could be a lover,Parent,Perhaps more.Which of these thousand selves,Would emerge?

Fuck Shilling, Shills, & Shillery.

Getting close to goalposts.Only ever did it for art,Really.Getting here seemed impossible,Despite doing math on it all.Thought I'd be dead before I got this far.Just Five Years!Know I should do something with it.Monetize,Some bullshit.But I despise shilling myself.Hate Capitalism,In Art.

Good Morning, Void #3.

Good Morning,Void.Let Us Wake Tomorrow,I'll Siphon Your Power To Change My World.Playing Along An Axis,Human Beings,Homo Sapiens Sapiens,Were Never Meant To Touch.Complex Reasoning;Beautifully Varying Degrees.Blessing Us In Apex Predations.History,Even Prehistory,All Human Inventions.

Money Scars.

Sing us home.From the farthest reaches of the void.The hanging noose.Poised guillotine. Violence will not salvage lives.Only besmirch honor.Would I dollars,For every cut and skinned knuckle. Dahlias in bloom,Sun-bleached escapes.Zeitgeists to devour,At our own comfort.

Greater Goods, Lesser Evils.

Let us play miraculous,Yet again.Doing the seemingly insane,Towards obscure means,Or ends.See -My pattern recognition,Combines a thousand variables -Into pathways for me to follow.Greater goods,Lesser evils.My work is based on whim,Passion,That long road,Ahead.Just watch;Eh?

Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

This fatigue is familiar.Why does my executive dysfunction,Plague me thus?Need to sleep.Need to sleep.Don't sleep.Fucked in the morning.A familiar old tale.Old as time for neurodivergents -Long before ADHD was ever a "thing."Existing,Sans definition.Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

Angels.

Angels.Infinite eyes & wings -As if such forms were madness,To us Humans.Perhaps in Biblical times,Such lies or fairy tales were common.Most deities are rather fallible -Epistemology dissecting them fully.The Universe demands reason.Empirical Method plus Science.No time for silly fables.

No Survivors.

These hollow eyes.This dark-circled stare.My boundaries were broken.Through with being lied to.Blocking a dying man,Much less thy sibling.Mourning a person,Who in their flailing -Is still headed for death.Is our kind destined to die?Destroy ourselves,Until nothing is left.No survivors.