Goodnight, Void #-99

Goodnight, Void #-99

Goodnight,Void.I love you.You never talk back,Merely doing what voids do best.Vacuum expanses devoid of matter.No gasses to ripple with screams.Therefore,Silence.Perhaps outside expanses of nebulae,Where writhing death throes of ebullism -Play out in the cold regardless.Void?Goodnight.

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Consumed Death Bed Clergymen, In Droves.

Consumed Death Bed Clergymen, In Droves.

Consumed Death Bed Clergymen,In Droves.Promising better beyonds,Painting Fantasy Fictions,Backlit By Entropy.Wasn't too bad either:Hungry Maw?Same as mine.Blood Curse wriggling,With anticipation.Godeater?WORSE!playing puppetsWritten myself.Don't need some backwards story,Full of evil.

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Beast Seeking The Freedom Of My Wilds.

Beast Seeking The Freedom Of My Wilds.

Tell me your secrets;Of War.Suffering Divine,Like Buddhists.Not Buddhist,But aligned across certain axis points.Yet I refuse to suffer any longer.Beast Seeking The Freedom Of My Wilds.Two.Four Darts.Until gruesome Samsara,Comes knocking yet again!Void Start.End Void.Fuck Enlightenment.

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Famous World Serpent Venom.

Famous World Serpent Venom.

Perhaps all this waiting,Is etching very slowly into my heart.Black Magic,My Famous World Serpent Venom.Thick & coloured like viscous black tar.For Witches;Finer brew.Hallucinogenic,With touches of my raw dark power,That make lesser hags stand straight,Heels,Tiptoes.Highly Addictive:Most...

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LANGUISH.

LANGUISH.

LANGUISH.Settled with rot,Consumed by cycles of Ecology.Roman Stoics,Demanded logic -Each loss as learning opportunity.Know well,Of expensive mistakes.Know worse,Simply being myself.Black mould creep.Pink drain fungus.Bacterial proliferations.One day -Adorn myself with bleach-ed bone.

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“Liquidity.”

“Liquidity.”

"Liquidity."Lies,Wall St. pushes.As if artificial liquidity,Doesn't massacre true supply & demand.Injecting fake trades,Allowing for rampant price fixing,& market manipulation.Free markets;Should be real supply & demand.Not crooked criminal hedge funds -Price fixing.For…"Liquidity."

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Goodnight, Void #998

Goodnight, Void #998

Goodnight,Void.Hold my time,In fractal position,Absent space or wormhole.No bending of vision,Beyond Event Horizons of Black Holes.When too much,Falls inwards.What coulda been stars.Void?Not scared of Death,My gracious waiting lover.Not scared of much at all.Maybe that's the problem.

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Thriving? What’s That?

Thriving? What’s That?

Thriving?What's that?Our kind is dirt,Smothered in sawdust.Stained with black moly grease.Mud & rain,When the roads washed away,Trapping us.No.We do not know what thriving is.But we do know survival.Resilience.Fortitude -While all the world's our foe.Norm.Smiling,At mushroom clouds.

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Gnawing Like Rats.

Gnawing Like Rats.

Been lax,Amongst laymen.Lost,Living little,Lured by dopamine.Hunger never quelled before.Chewing wood & metal to pieces -Making tiny little rounded balls,To swallow.Old traumas,Ignorant of my neurodiversities.Share these dark black circles,Sunken sockets,With kin.Never enough sleep.

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Dodge? Why?

Dodge? Why?

Dodge?Why?I'll simply parry,Riposte.Laughing like a madman,With carvings of my hands,Clenched fists -Each led by muscled forearm.Run. Jump. Kick.Turn three hundred pounds of weight,Into force,Into exponentials of Newtons.Mass.Density.Volume.Plus Gravity.That math is rarely hard.

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Singing When I’m Happy.

Singing When I’m Happy.

Know when to dawdle,& when to sprint.Body moving faster than mind,Even if in autopiloted directions.When running,In shape,Let my jogging rhythm,Follow my music.Then once sorted,My mind was free to plot,Or plan.Write,Or process.Signs:Singing when I'm happy.Mental health,At a glance.

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Scars As Stories.

Scars As Stories.

Little Witches,Little Witches,Never forget:Scars are in actuality -Stories.Memories.Carved across our skin,Or flesh.Follow my fingers,As they trace my ugly body:From black bags,To white streaks.Purple-white stretch marks,I can never remove.Half an eyebrow.Missing tip,Of one ear.

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They Eat, When I Eat.

They Eat, When I Eat.

Dancing Will O'Wisps,Bright Blue.Holding a thousand memories -On which I plan to feast.Adding to my corpse piles,One by one.My flock is the true benefactor,My own leashed ghosts.Drinking power themselves,To grow in affect upon a living world.They come,When I call.They eat,When I eat.

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Worst Of The Worst.

Worst Of The Worst.

Becoming Beast;In the dark.Feral creature of base desires.Dripping of saliva,Twisting of the tongue.Before dragging it across lips.Lines of moisture,Intermingled substances.Terrified sounds in the dark.Tension in moans,Escaping from throats.Brutish.Confident.Hungry.Worst Of The Worst.

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MY MORTALITY WAS ALWAYS ASSURED –

MY MORTALITY WAS ALWAYS ASSURED –

Blessed be our hallowed hours.When darkness settles,Imagining a light,Each unto themselves,In this infinite abyss.Entropy!I call you.Bear baiting,Trainspotting,Call it whatever'a fuck you want.MY MORTALITY WAS ALWAYS ASSURED -from the startSo was yours.My odds are slim.Defiance.Eh?

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Non Binary Identity?

Non Binary Identity?

Non Binary Identity?Born Male,Indoctrinated in all the toxic masculinity;Bigoted parent could inject.Disowning them?A step in my journey,Of identity.Don't owe you androgyny,Nor do I owe you anything,Really.The kind of Enby,Who despises gender as a construct.Rather be a Cryptid,Or Titan.

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Off The Corpse Of Theia. // But We Were Born To Lose.

Off The Corpse Of Theia. // But We Were Born To Lose.

Past Midnight.Witching Hours.When our masks come off,Skin & muscle pulled,Then torn away.Becoming our true Cryptid selves,Basking in moonlight;So hungry for the Sun,That we drink mere reflections -Off the Corpse of Theia.Tears,Memories,Ghosts,All.Not a single one of my spells -Can defeat...

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Goodnight Void #450 \\ Singing My Prayers To Entropy.

Goodnight Void #450 \\ Singing My Prayers To Entropy.

Goodnight Void.Even if it's been a while -Can always count on you,To be waiting.Singing My Prayers To Entropy.From Nothing I Came,To Nothing I Must One Day Go.Transitioning.From craving early ends -To hungering for life itself.Glutton Slavering At Immortality,When only words will remain.

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Story Bleeds Out.

Story Bleeds Out.

Cryptid,Reeking Of Stories.Aura,Size of orbitals,Suppressed to preserve spacetime normality.Power Overwhelming.Cheat Code & All.Pressure,Mass,Density,Volume,Crammed into slivers of space,Between realities.Black Hole Son;Immense Weight Indeed.Peel back my layers,Story bleeds out.

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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...

Got Hard To Kill.

Let me down.Gently.If I'd fight & die for you,Show me the respect of truth.A cryptid of my honor,Genderless,Formless,Seeking freedom from a husk,A shell of flesh & bone.Nobody has ever fought for me.So I got hard to kill.Good at fighting solo.Monster in lieu of man.

Tough Love.

Tough Love. I want your truth.The entire sordid affair.Ribbons of trauma laid across your flesh in epitaph of who you used to be a lifetime ago.A portion will do.And you will refuse the healing.Cry to your demons and rage at your histories.Your pain will be your solace.Your cold rage shall become...

Always Go Down Swinging.

This realm,Is sacred.Held together as might a mind palace;Yet fractured,Broken.Non-Euclidean spaces,Interspersed with endless tunnels -Or corridors.Places built by my subconscious,Remembering the most vivid of dreams.Monsters stalking me in the dark.But,I still always go down swinging.

Helpless.

Take me,I am helpless.Sworn to pacifism,But I will not surrender.My heart is strong and free.Whirling dervish,Tornado of force.Steel-clad will of iron.Twenty-five tonne bodies,Become extensions of yourself.With all the power in the world,What does it mean?To gift yourself away,As the suitor -The...

Catch 22.

Fighting for a voice,Amongst a sea of others -Wielding sex,Or politics,As a hook. I'm just an independent artist,Scrabbling in the dirt.Look at me!Look at me!As if capitalism doesn't demand market share. Caught in a catch 22,Wanting to make art.Forced to sell it,To survive.Disgusting.

Instant Ecstasy.

The kind of villain,Who devours your gods.Cackling grins,For every feast.Drinking power,From cosmic blood.Metaphor or not.I've been stealing seconds,For decades.Giving too long.Taking too little.MINE.An aura of emotion -Swelling fit to burst.Laughter.Sudden.Vibrant.Laughter.Instant...

Free Verse, Duh.

Never let it be said,You nasty bastards,Sassing my ass faster than…Answer:Do I not experiment?Free Verse ensures I fly -Sans shackles!Or training wheels.World Serpents,Love Hoarding Knowledge,Just as much as they love playing,With their food.Both in exponential scales.Black Hole time...

Ego Death Count: “More Than One.”

Gussied Up.Skookum & Proud.Some Deadliest Of Sins,Are Absent.Lust I'll Indulge.But I'm Gluttony Incarnate.One Of Many.Wrath?Nah.Envy?Nope.Sloth?Hah!Pride!Ego Death Count:"More Than One."Dissociated For Decades.Dead Selves Aplenty.Throw Them On My Pile Of Skeletons.I'll Keep The Ghosts.Give The...

Breeders.

Breeding wretches,Bringing life into a dark world,Still in need of saving.Hundred thousand wails,Millions more born.Fighting biological imperative,Becoming something more.I'm tired of fighting for scraps.Get out of the way.We have utopias to build.

The Power Of Place.

Forgetting vocabularies,Of words we used to know.Selves we no longer maintain.Languages learned and forgotten,A dozen times each. People drift away,As they always do.Lone wanderer,It was always your type.Chained to place,Blood curses.Shackled magically to the coast.Free thyself.Pull at these...

That Beautiful Sadness, Forever.

Well,Gotta admire the gall -Of glared daggers,Or shotgun weddings.Hell,Mastered Fist Knuckle Tactics,Whilst you floundered in the deep.Crossed finger barrier plays,Liar Liar,Loins awash in flames.Fishing for compliments,Bass across airwaves.Come at me,Girl.Had enough,Of beating around...

Dead Women.

How many dead women,Have I known?Poor lady who died.Heart attack,Day after her wedding.Or fourteen,Same as me.Forever.Hung herself downstreet,From the basements I frequented.ODs.How many men?Substance abuse.Self-medication,Eventually leading to lonely suicide.Half a dozen,More,Perhaps.

Well Past Dreaming.

Hell,Goal was always granting freedom -To enable people to live,As their truest selves.Devoid of hardship,True peace.100% autonomy,Over their bodies -And inner selves.Maybe those are the dreams,Of a hopeful punk-rock 90's -We're well past dreaming.All action,Now.

Infinite Aura.

Cascade across these realities of mine -Little thing.Kaleidoscope across my surface,Cybernetic epiphanies -Laid out in tombstone rows.Doomed existences,Flailing and gnawing.Come here -Let me see you.Touch.Feel.Know if you're worthy.Eyes wide shut,Divine audience.Can you see my aura,Looming...

Words & Nothing.

Get in shape;Oh monster of mine.Bring the animal,& beast,With you.Let me wrap cold steel chains,Around my forearms,Fists.Carbon forged perfections,Keeping my demons in check.Watched a millennium,Pass me by.Buried the bodies,But kept the ghosts of ancestors.Old magic.Black magic.Tethers to the...