Drinking Black Ink.

Drinking Black Ink.

Watch,As I eclipse.Shadowed against my thousand selves,That endless chorus.This pitch black dreaming,Not unlike death.Where ego goes to die,Tortured into nothingness.This black ichor,Thick as tar.Pouring from my gouged veins,Dripping from eye sockets.The spell's wound up -Held in contempt.Thousand...

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Fractured Hearts.

Fractured Hearts.

I'll love you forever,Damn it.Such is my curse.Watching you move on,Gracious as I am -It's painful.Want to give in so badly,To change fate.To have you.My heart is fractured,But such is time -It endures,Relentless.Maybe we make mistakes.Such is life.Regrets & all.

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Machine Gun Lexicons.

Machine Gun Lexicons.

Skid,They called me.Burnout fuck,From a hick logger family.Fuck Pygmalion,Language is freedom.Expression as living,Clawing space for art -With ragged grease-stained fingernails.Chainsaw in hand,Mask lowered in readiness.Machine gun lexicons,I'm never going to stop.

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Humble Beginnings.

Humble Beginnings.

Slaying dragons,Is but a sign of humble beginnings.At cosmic scales,One must wield planets.Spinning fragments of civilizations as knives.Maybe there are other realities,Where I was never human.Only ever the creature.Would I still choose to play the villain,After all?

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Fight Me, Dearest.

Fight Me, Dearest.

Fight me,Dearest.This ebbing,Or flowing.King tide conundrums.Beasts of the woods -Settle their bets in false charges,Borne fangs.Where is your fang,Little one?Long in the tooth,Or forgotten in the forest.I'll be there -Haunting evermore.A cloak to keep you safe.

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Monochromatic Haze.

Monochromatic Haze.

The Infinite Hunger,Feeds the eternal demon.Roaring in the dark,Consumed with naught but anguish.There can never be enough,To fill this infinite void.Pulling at my edges,In monochromatic haze.How often must I become fractals,To escape you?The enemy is entropy itself.

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Poems For An Old Lover #3

Poems For An Old Lover #3

Your hair is as nebulous and undecided on its colour, as the changing leaves in the fall - gorgeous waves of red and brown trying to pick a time to take that leap - to gift themselves to the earth, a living biomass for the forest floor. Much are you, a shifting wave of benevolence, hardly a frown...

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Poems For An Old Lover #2

Poems For An Old Lover #2

A tisket but no tasket,An everflowing basket,Of life as rosy - dark,As a song in the park,In a hurricane!Or more?What could possibly be in store?An uncertainty of sorts,A chaotic half a quart,In a world that doesn't care!It's all - buyer beware!And yet something has to give,So we can barely...

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Poems For An Old Lover #1

Poems For An Old Lover #1

"Ghosts and whispers, in my ear,Something borrowed, something dear,A patchwork heart, to you I give,You make it lovely to simply live,A pocket full of hopes and love,A lovestruck kiss from up above."

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So My Mask Will Remain.

So My Mask Will Remain.

No.You still don't see me.This web-way of mazes -Changing constantly in my mind.Old tricks,Following left or right wall,Don't work here.Even now;Cannot control my nightmares,Most nights.We remain trapped in my subconscious:Funhouse mirror reflections,False places.So my mask will remain.

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This Melancholy Grief, Remains.

This Melancholy Grief, Remains.

Rarely write Poetry,In Sorrow.Despair pinned to my skin,Like entomology displays.Fighting myself.Every.Single.Day.3 pills each morning -Just to know of Joy.[Numb.Wanting for escape.Worshipping Death.]Never wanted any of this.Blood Cursed.Strange.&:This melancholy grief,Remains. **

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These Tears Don’t Feel Like Mine.

These Tears Don’t Feel Like Mine.

These tears don't feel like mine.Survival always came with grit.Not crying.Tens of thousands of teardrops,Spread over several decades.But in trying to become something,Other than myself…I indeed lost myself,As predicted.So many masks,Don't know who I am,Even now.Weeping quietly.Lost.

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Button Eyes.

Button Eyes.

What did you lose?"Everything."Or perhaps never had "anything,"To begin with.Weeping adult -Over stuffed animals.Sobbing for lost fabric?Or desecrated youths?Most handmade,Gifted by grandparents.Button eyes.Soft fluff.Comfort.Love I threw away.Wanted back so badly;Even two decades on.

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Skeezy Teases, Sleazy Eases.

Skeezy Teases, Sleazy Eases.

Skeezy teases,Sleazy eases.Convictions predicted to insipid depictions.Thrice fights rightly righted.Mock balks at thot bots via TikTok lots.This place is hell.Swell fellas tell or yell truths,Soothsaying purviews.You who knew,No longer know.Calligraphy neat,A freak.

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Hardly Beyond Apes.

Hardly Beyond Apes.

Perhaps Not.Maybe my faith was always misguided,Relying on people stupider than I,To seek knowledge & wisdom.But paths of least resistance -Hardly work that way.Wanted to see my species shine;Breaking free of evolutionary shackles,Such as Tribalism.Yet they're hardly beyond apes.Sad.

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Tenuous Reality. \\ Midnight As Fuel.

Tenuous Reality. \\ Midnight As Fuel.

Midnight As Fuel,Drinking superstition,Or chugging myth & legend.Didn't come to fracture Reality,Of course.That's just a big red button,In the form of Dimensional Breaks.Globally Inevitable,Mutually Assured Destruction.Same logic as nukes.Don't hurt me!Or I'll burn this whole world to ashes.

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If Only I Could Trust.

If Only I Could Trust.

Love Beguiles,Eludes Me.Always forgetting when it starts,Stops,Begins,Or ends.Most of my love has been fleeting -With lingering feelings of being used.Traumatic Abusive Childhoods,Likely perpetrated such emotions.Are we guilty for past ignorance?Want love,Truly.If only I could trust.

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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...

Ones we wept over, As we broke their necks.

Remain with me a moment,Old Lady.No.Gotta go.No time for dead selves -When I became nameless.Old scars remain,From old bodies.Old Selves.Ones we wept over,As we broke their necks.Metaphor remains a deadly weapon,But a rather feeble shield.But meat & bone needs no shield.It cannot last.

Consent For Perfection.

Force nothing,Yet everything.Consent,To engage,To elevate,To help achieve their desired,Perfections.But done in good faith.Expectations or boundaries up front.Souls are less malleable than form.Prefer function first,Anyways.I will do what I think can help you grow,Expand,Evolve.

“No More Or Less Than One.”

Freezing ourselves near to solid,Between a strange concoction of Truth,Diluted by simple vice.Usually "No More Or Less Than One,"As some stupid bastards have told me.Some jackasses,Will speak whatever they think,Then believe it as gospel!Honestly?Fuck those people.I'm wrong all the time!

Share A Weakness.

Remember,I share a weakness,With what I hate.Drinking faith,As fuel.Harvesting it with metaphors,Siphons disguised as allusions.Science,My religion.Empirical Method,My god.Only such true power,Can reveal me,Or my many ciphers.Anything can be hallowed,Remember.Religion is just a tool.

This Hunger Is Infinite |||

This hunger is infinite.'Ere the roiling seas of want,Overcome thy executive dysfunction.Dopamine driplines.Guzzling at dreams.Feeding on wishes.Eat.Devour.Consume.This hunger is infinite.That never changes.

‘Til Yer Hands’re Numb.

We Still Stand.Always.If Barely.Beat To Shit.Missing Half-Ears.Eyebrows.Fingertips.Tendons.Go Down Swinging.'Ery Time.'Specialy Times You Do Go Down.'Til Ya Stop Going Down.Bloody Knuckles.Split Lips.Cracked Bones.Fuck Morphemes.Syntax.Hard Knuckle Tactics,'Til Yer Hands're Numb.

Just Like Old Times.

Madness comes & goes,Like a tide.These cackling echoes,Of laughter -Refracted,Reverberated,Everlasting.The softly fading repeats,Dying in each new slew,Of cacophony.Gyrating teeth,Twitching fingers.You can never sate,The Infinite Hunger.Only quell it,For a time.

Starving As We Are.

This Capitalist hellscape -Is finally crumbling.All as more & more folks,Realize their lot,As wage slaves.Enriching fat cat oligarchs,With zero morality.Eat the rich,Isn't just hyperbolic metaphor,These days.Grocery inflation?Making wrinkly old monsters,Look tasty.Starving as we are.

Fisticuffs.

I will stand for you,If you stand for me.Promise me thy truest self.Open & bloodied,Spirit & soul on display.I'll trade you.For this vacuum,Where my heart used to be.Entropy incarnate,Void in name & function.Thus,Void it shall be.Infinite hunger,Can fight anything.

The Scars On The Faces Of Gods.

The Scars On The Faces of Gods: The tyranny does not seem to lessen.Each day that passes, the voices grow louder,A hungry mob crying out for equality.A class consciousness blooming from the rot,A thousand years of subjugation gifting life to anger.This is our reckoning.A hundred thousand angry...

Truer Forms As Desired.

We become new selves,A thousand times.Organic transition to states of being.self in self in self in self in selfWould this shell be shed,Freed from the real.Countered into abstract consciousness.Free to inhabit shells,Only by choice.Life Aquatic.Vonnegut's truth. Peel me apart,Would these hands...

People Talk Shit.

People talk shit.Straight lies,Or sometimes distortions of truth.Lying by omission is popular of course!As autonomous individuals -We have to learn to bear such things.As infamous as we might become;Based on the tall tales of others.Soon enough,A mythos is born -From conflicting accounts.

Let Us Become Counterculture Itself.

Nay!Let us become counterculture itself,Alternate lives.Underground selves.Punk or metal,Doesn't really matter -Sofar as intentions match.Autonomy.Freedom.Truth.We don't do this,For ourselves.Do it for tomorrow.& tomorrow.& the thousands of tomorrows,After that.

Held In Abyss.

Each whispered scream.Held in abyss.Only psychic vibrations,Left to guide us.Lost as we were in the voids of space.Boote's Void,Twisting in the dark.Wyrmling legacies.Garbing ourselves as beasts,To stalk alien forests.Playing at fauna,With the changing of shape.Cryptids,Strange.Wrong.

Kill your fucking ego.

Kill your fucking ego.Operating from orbit,Is way more efficient than being trapped -And subsequently drowning to death,In self.