Brash Or Lax Didacts Masked As Dictata Or Dictate.

Brash Or Lax Didacts Masked As Dictata Or Dictate.

When is a corpse a corpse, of course? Morse code flashbacks to stacked racks of SOS klaxons. Fresh Tracks In Snow. Forgo Enlightenment These Days,Ways to maze my ways amazed or not.What begot love is fraught with curses of ending. Tyrant,Hungering Evermore. Brash or lax didacts masked as dictata...

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The Usual, Please.

The Usual, Please.

Dreams.Nightmares.Paralysis Demons.&,Everything In Between. Shadowed Intent As Ethereal Tone No stanza could be strong enough,To hold us.Pressure building,Until our blood erupts in geysers,From the bulkheads. Death by drowning -Soaked in hemoglobin. Despair The usual,Please.

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Up Past Noon.

Up Past Noon.

Up past noon.Falling back into old neurodivergent habits,Failing to meet society where it stands.Weeks melting into blurs.Hunting motivations.Yet.Wasting away to nothing.Witch Moon Memories.Dark Dirge Destiny.A future I am unable to paint,Blocked by financial terrorists,& crooked finance.

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All To Paint False Zeitgeists.

All To Paint False Zeitgeists.

Creating entire universes,Worlds,& peoples.Method Acting fictional characters;Only read in books or stories,& never given visual form.All to paint false Zeitgeists,& societies,To play funhouse mirror to ours.Warnings bellowed via fake extremes,Speaking of futures -We hope to prevent.

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Precious Little Slices –

Precious Little Slices –

Precious little slices -Cross sections of existence.Seconds, minutes, hours,Trickling by in homeostasis.Scraping by like this,Isn't living.Floating in purgatories of wage slavery,Isn't living,Either.What worth is talent,Or intelligence,In this world,Riddled -With such broken hierarchy?

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Pop.

Pop.

Pop.Bubble Go Boom.Upside Down Pyramids,Written in derivatives,Doomed to topple.Lives thought invincible,Crimes paid off in bribes.They called it lobbying.Occupy;Simmering rage -An intricate wisdom of the masses,That they were getting fucked!Wall St.?Drank Champagne,Pointed,& laughed.

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You Don’t Have To Help, Just Don’t Get In My Way.

You Don’t Have To Help, Just Don’t Get In My Way.

What right?There's no constitution that exists,Even close to perfection.When speaking of "Humanist Utopia,"I'm chasing my own brands of "perfect."Ball my hands into fists,Mourning."Guess I'll Give It A Go!"My vision,My attempt on Reality.You don't have to help,Just don't get in my way.

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“You amaze me”

“You amaze me”

Hamlet.Always my favourite.Stolen story or not.Exact same existential crises,As I lived.Every day.For a very long time.Pondering:Whether death was better than life,As if inevitable assurances didn't matter.Failed Twice.Kill the world that scorned me?Or save the few that deserve it?Hamlet method...

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Dawn To Dusk.

Dawn To Dusk.

Dawn to Dusk.Existing between principles,& reality.I cannot just touch a person's temples -To download my immense archive,Of eidetic memories, wisdoms, & knowledge.Must sloppily navigate their bias,& ignorance.With spoken word,As my medium & art form.It’s already mostly dead.So, I...

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“Brand Cleanliness.”

“Brand Cleanliness.”

Most artists care about things like;"Brand Cleanliness."I most definitely do not.Never fit in,In first place!Broken Social Contracts,Plus trauma & othering!Why should I give two fucks,About the same societies -Who called me retard, gay, or faggot as slurs?Fuck them.I speak truth.I'm me.

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Paradox Of Intolerance Is On Fire.

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!

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Fiend.

Fiend.

Fiend,Then.Vaudeville in origins,Exile by blood.Equal to twenty percent of a species.An echelon deserving of banishment.Been fighting through mud,Uphill.For a lifetime.Expecting more negativity -Based on experience.Kindness isn't saved,For neurodivergents such as we.

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Necropolis of Literature.

Necropolis of Literature.

Is death better?Sometimes the darkness calls to me,Luring me to my doom.Coward's way out.Failed old attempts.Pondering,What have I wrought?My worth -Determined by capitalism,As worthless.My vast works,Unread.A necropolis of literature.This world despises me.

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Self Within Self Within Self.

Self Within Self Within Self.

Serenity,Held in the palm within thy mind's eye.Choosing to boil in chaos,Thrashing & tearing.Madness -Self within self within self,Hundred mirrored echoes.Nirvana in fleeting seconds.Dopamine drips.The lies we tell ourselves,To justify our ends.Enlightenment hoaxes.

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Fight. Flight. Freeze.

Fight. Flight. Freeze.

Let me rake your amygdala,Clawing across sympathetic.Anxiety to twenty,Nerves ringing,Steel on steel.Chainsaw churn,Every horror,Perched,Edge of vision.Black spot,Coiling menace.Terror of terrors,Infecting from inside out,One scream at a time.Fight.Flight.Freeze.

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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...

Perennials.

Perennials,Weathering the years,Propagating despite hardships.A slip,In time,Space.Forgotten seconds,Yet they bloomed,Amidst rotRuin,Neglect,Lack of care.It is us that can learn,From the vines that claw free!Coil forth from the earth with the spring.Immortal.

The Brewery Episode 40: “Live Brew Special Part 2.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHcH_hlcDLQ&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant vs Hokori, Dust Drinker vs Abaddon the Despoiler vs Isshin, Two Heavens As One | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep40: “Live Brew Special Part 2!” Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join...

Pick Your Poisons.

Spring showers,Spring flowers.Springing into action,Muscle & maw.Blooming in eternities,Cycles of a star.Seasonal rotations -Around the constellations.Make a fist.Show me your knuckles.Growth comes in any one,Of a dozen methods.Pick your poisons.

Smoke, Water, Run.

Lest there be weeping,Amidst the willows.As if I am not mourning the loss of a garden.The inability to foster life itself,The most basic acts of creation.Gifting it away as one does.I am merely an old mentor,Living beyond their expiry.It's the simple things in life.I need to feel the sun on my...

No gods or kings, only man.

I won't be a king.Ruling the world -Is saving the world.Bringing prosperity and well-being.Creating utopia.Using your gifts for good,While masquerading as evil.Pretend tyrants,The slowest ego death,You've ever seen.Nothing but superego.Fraud.Corruption.Hunting them.

Late Night Poetry To No One.

Late night poetry,To no one.Lying in the dark,White noise cacophony.Numbers.Is that all my art has become?Tally towards greatness,As if each individual piece,Were worthless trash.Alone again.Always alone.There are no metaphors,For solitude,That ever seem adequate.Black.Silent.Still.

My Fae Circumstances Are Nebulous At Best.

When did I lose my discipline?Where hath it gone.Dwelling between gluttony,Vice.Sin.Day by day.Pill by pill.Cross-legged in the metaphysical,Lingering twixt reason -Or madness.Believe me,I cannot tell you my wiles.Only this:My fae circumstances,Are nebulous at best.

The Establishment Was Designed To Kill You.

The establishment was designed to kill you. Built by colonial legacies in back room deals,Men speaking to each other in hushed tones,Closed door meeting. I can read fear.Smell it on the wind like an animal.A beast.This machine will grind you to dust. Got two degrees, A dumb disabled logger...

Martyr Complex All Lit Up.

Wounded Animals.This mourning wells up in me,Alone in the dark.Grief & Anger -Criss-crossed a dozen ways.Betrayals of Trust.Martyr Complex All Lit Up,Like neon fucking signs.Please.Stop.Quit killing yourself.This anguish,Despair,Has nowhere to go.Just words into the abyss.The Lost.

I’ll Devour You.

I'll devour you.Peel apart every nerve,Sift every memory.Until I know you.Completely.Entirely.

Food Chain Blues \\ Predator Of Predators.

Coiled.Stinging.Slow burning of venom.Necrosis,Soon after.Via science -A powerful hallucinogen.Diluted to awaken minds.Imbibed to see the universe.Even us cryptids,Lurking at the edges of vision.Hovering between multiple dimensions.This science.Transformative.Alchemical.Transforming World Serpent...

Goodnight Void #1172

May thy demons harden you to survive the horrors of tomorrow, my dearest void. May the abyss cloak you in silence, unto pax aeternum. Goodnight - and, Goodnight - And. Goodnight.

Pro Bono Producer Consulting Notes.

Well,Rocky first start,Kids.But you've got liquid gold.Mic spun wrong way?Easy fix.Streaming PC & camera stuttering?Upgrade the shit out of it!Good art requires 110%,Leeching what we can from our environs,Tasking ourselves with orbitals.Still,The Two Ladies -Should've been louder,Yeah?

Winter.

Cold shoulders,Rapid intake.Smoke feeding from the lungs,Into frigid negative integers.Winter has come & gone,In perpetual cycles.Ecologies fracturing,Polar vortexes dropping.The frozen winds,Atop the mountains -Are second nature by now.Mourn their disappearance.

The Brewery Episode 14: “Shrines.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BXth0e6SFU&t=74s&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Go-Shintai of Lost Wisdom vs Katsumasa, the Animator vs Ravos, Soultender +vs Tymna the Weaver vs Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Vial Smasher the Fierce MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep14: “Shrines.” Welcome...