Of Stars & Black Holes.

Of Stars & Black Holes.

Dye it black,As Stones demanded.Major Depression;Hanging Upon Our Shoulders,Like Atlas Or Sisyphus.Some know my true facsimile -In Talos.Unlike others,Always been at peace with oblivion itself.Ready for annihilation,Every second of every day.Carrying mass;Of stars & black holes.

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Darwin Awards.

Darwin Awards.

Supervillain Plans To Save The World.Dry retching at this sudden cost,Of defeating almost every hero.Suddenly it's responsibility!"Noblesse Oblige."What horrid fate for the Evil!Who wanted to conquer my universe -Yet forced to squat on one floating rock.Helping others dodge Darwin Awards…

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Larger Truer Selves.

Larger Truer Selves.

Bear?Femboy?Keep your silly titles.My painted black nails,& shaved body,Aren't sex objects to gawk at.My Non Binary Identity -Is the realm of cryptids from beyond time.Infinite Void.Thousand terrifying things;Skittering in the dark.My identity is not your fantasy.Nor should it be.

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Goodnight Void #348

Goodnight Void #348

Goodnight Void.Tonight,In these minutes past midnight -Take me slowly.Quell failed attempts,At triggering lucid dreaming,With blessed black dreamlessness.Blink & Then Morning.Or give me a beautiful femme -Aesthetic Beauty,To kiss,To hold,Aware it's my own subconscious;Me, Myself, & I.

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Until Worms Take The Rest.

Until Worms Take The Rest.

My hands are at times,As much dead skin,As living.Calluses & the white double growths,Of necrosis.It all makes sense,You see:We're ourselves ecosystems -Multicelled existences,Biotic cultures of tract, sinus, or jaw.Split.Divide.Mitosis.Meiosis.Back & forth,Until worms take the rest.

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Monster Playing Dress Up.

Monster Playing Dress Up.

Evil Base Instincts.Same ones that got us,Brought us,Here.Malignant Covert Narcissists.Abusive Gaslighting Parents.Neglected Children.Neglected Youth.How couldn't we turn out wrong?What,Baba?You thought being the first to get degrees,Of bloodlines,Would matter?Monster Playing Dress Up.

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Punk Mosh Faux Pas.

Punk Mosh Faux Pas.

Justice,I've learned over the decades,Is a word often repeated,But mostly in hollow tones.One sided interpretations,Subject to follies of a system.Or:Bias of those who interpret such disciplines.Underdog Riots.Anarchist Block Parties.Punk Mosh Faux Pas.Fuck thy "Justice."I've my own.

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When The Monk Need Have Control.

When The Monk Need Have Control.

Today -Need take it slow.Bake Bread With Rosemary,Salt,Walk for hours in the sun.Acid reflux,Reminding me of my frail Humanity.Fatigue & twelve hour sleeps,Another lesson.Remaining Weak,Swollen,When The Monk Need Have Control.Self Care.My Own Brands Of Meditation,Opposite Of Normal.

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Goodnight, Void #213

Goodnight, Void #213

Goodnight,Void.In changing genders;True androgyny.After singularity frees me from biology.Manufactured selves,Swapping around at will.Puppet two at once!Dissociative pasts,Where we piloted our own puppets of meat -Through trauma & abuse.Void?Promise me.If I can defeat mortality…Can -

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Protege.

Protege.

Thing repeated to old pupils,As Mantra:"It's Never Too Late."Lax due dates,Preferring best work -Even day report card marks were due.Offer opportunity.Redemption.Experiences For Growth.Gifting nothing but good faith,& benefit of doubt.Traits shared.My old man;Their origin.Protege,Eh?

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Mourning Potentials.

Mourning Potentials.

Chaingun Fisticuffs,Old Taekwondo Movesets.Wrestling learned by father -Two on one.Odd scrap taught more.Death,Other things.Somebody died each year.Watching caskets of former students,Running by funeral gatherings -Headphones going,Sunglasses on.Guilty.Hurt.Worse.Mourning Potentials.

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Grinder’s Ready. \\ Fresh Meat!

Grinder’s Ready. \\ Fresh Meat!

Fresh Meat!Grinder's Ready.Reducing cryptids to pieces.For all our sacred anomalous natures,We couldn't warp Reality enough,Through those anchors.Becoming food as much as minor deities.Be it Jotnar,Or Skinchangers,Long Pigs demand a feast!Our magic,Slurped up for power!Infinite Energy.Prey.

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Metaphor Must Become Magic.

Metaphor Must Become Magic.

These Witching Hours,Where Witches Craft -Which Witches Are Prone To Do!Weaving spells in pitch black caverns,Bogs,Ancient forests.Chicken-legged huts,& mansions.Roaring & Singing At Moon,Like Wildling Bush Youth.Secular,Evoking Zeitgeist.If I'm to be best,Metaphor Must Become Magic.

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Prompt Me: Provide Me.

Prompt Me: Provide Me.

Prompt Me:Provide Me.Does thy curiosity,Demand investigation?Do my dark halls of historical horrors,Entice you?Or do you just want my brain?Savant or quant;To use & abuse?Been there,Suffered that.Exhausted with being one of the smartest,In any given room.Where are my peers?Rivals?

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Bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy.Fickle controls of the nation state.Careful Social Engineering,Meticulous policy & procedures.Dislike Nation States,Almost as much as geopolitics.But still coerced under a flag."Not American."Somehow worth more in present -Than past.Fearful of corruption,Contagion,Worse.

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Touch Screen Literature.

Touch Screen Literature.

Paper Cranes.Paper Pinwheels.Origami,Reminding me of my brief pasts in forestry.Fiber.Wood.Pulped down into components,Changing form as needed.Yet my Poems,Rarely touch paper.As an artist,I live in an entirely digital world.Blinking cursors.Mechanical Keyboards.Touch Screen Literature.

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Playing Ancient Mariner.

Playing Ancient Mariner.

Waiting Room Purgatory.Testing Even Legendary Patience.Typing Poems Feverishly,Thrown upon piles.Ensuring Mythos,With This Infinite Creation,Dribbling from my cracked lips.Playing Ancient Mariner,Sinking canines deep into my own flesh.Slake Thirst.Cry Warning.Never fear.I'm still here.

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Slavic Folk Tales, Of Baba Yaga.

Slavic Folk Tales, Of Baba Yaga.

Weave Spells Of Boons?Are you high?Do I look like a White Witch?Italian cauldrons,Full of pasta?Wiccan Healing?No.Secular Black Magic.Atheist Witch.Fuck Gardner & His Wicca -Bigoted Homophobic Bastard.I come from Slavic Folk Tales,Of Baba Yaga.Sans eating children -Of course. 》《

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Poem. \\/ Elevator Pitches.

Poem. \\/ Elevator Pitches.

Central:Fictional Sci Fi Mockery Of Real Life.Three Factions:Fascist Dictatorship.Oligarchical Faux Democracy.True Democracy Freedom Fighters.Parodies of Politics,Governments,More.My pen is cruel.My words are crueler.Always played role of mirror:To reflect others,Back upon themselves.

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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...

“One More Day.”

This it?Week before storm?It's always been:Tomorrow.Or Tomorrow.Ever Tomorrow.What'll we do -When tomorrow is finally today?Zen,Waiting.Silent resolve for over three years.Tomorrow.Always Tomorrow.Until there're no more tomorrows left."One More Day."Is all out of days.Then?WE FEAST

Is That Madness Yours?

Better the monk,Than the man.Cryptid shapeshifting,Into better selves. Are you not screaming?Is that madness yours? Embrace entropy.Learn to rebuild yourself,From nothing. Deconstruct thy self,As many times as it takes.Until you are finally happy,With who you are.

The “Great Writer” Path.

Funny,That.I exist in this void,Bereft of having my work shared,Spread,Or proliferated.Some part of me is happy:Get to live the normal "great writer" path.Famous,Recognized as elite,But long after I'm already dead.Why did Shakespeare become rote?Why can't I?Even After beating him…

Raw Eidetics.

Remember these boonies friday summer nights.Trapped in our middle of nowhere.Highway drive - hour north & south,To true civilization.Used to drive the highway late on school nights, blasting dumb aughts euro edm.The second CD of "In Your Honour,"For makeouts & sex in the back seat.The...

Fat ‘ol buddha on a bench,

Fat 'ol buddha on a bench,Wench Block Patrol,World Conquest Daydream Team -Goals. Holes in one?Fuck finesse -I digress;Take my word son -Wouldn't like my ghosts.Teenage girls & convicts.Loved them wrong all the same shame,Absence there in waiting. Hating is easier,Suppose.Rose.Taming.

Weaving New Curses Into My Bones.

This grief,Hangs heavy.Swelling my aura so quickly,My Blood Curse cannot drink it all.Being powerless,Most enraging thing in existence.Conversion via witchcraft -To cold fury,Enough to power a billion lightbulbs.Weaving new curses into my bones -Until I am whole.

A Hunger To Steal Titles, From Dead Poets.

He told his father to rage -Against the dying of the light,In his final moments. Teach mine -How our universe ends,In his last decades.Stories of Black Holes. Another,Waffled on carnality!Revered as master. Me?A hunger to steal titles,From dead poets. No Dead Poet Society Required!

Taking It For Ourselves.

This was always who we were,Chained and muzzled.Hidden behind a mask. Grow bored of neurotypicals,Dictating like I am some child.We were savants. Born one in a billion,Hungry and dissatisfied.Now? We'll take the playground for ourselves.

Haters ||

Haters will always seethe and twist.Shut them out of your sanctums,Before they infest your goals,Hopes,Dreams.

This Feeling Of Control.

Remembering it,Finally.This feeling of control.Settling into discipline,Again.Monk or not.Small nuance towards success:Avoiding attempts at filling my void.Dopamine starvation,Kept carefully aligned.Insofar as it rides an edge.Food?My old vice.Gluttony.But there're worse -Of course.

Hyko & Caylee.

“Liar.” He snorted with laughter, even as she folded her arms at him with a faux glare. The cool and refreshing summer breeze wafted in through the open windows, carrying the smells of cooking meat and the bustling city. Serenity the capital city stretched across all of Sanctuary’s largest...

Slam is Formulaic.

Let me crush your fantasy,The skill gap doesn't matter.Slam is formulaic.Scattered whispers here -bothersome metaphors there -Find the cadence,Hold the room.It's hardly perfection -Stratified as it is,Woke AF.Asking a thousand questions with zero answers.Retired once.

Burn of a Blood Curse.

The Infinite Hunger.Burden of a Blood Curse.Genetic cacophonies:Enough broken systems -Somehow they sing,In darkest harmony.Symphonies of Neurodivergency.Do you know what it is like,To hunger?Craving Dopamine you lack.Starved by Endocrine deficits.Anything to fill,Our infinite void.

You Have Exhausted My Patience.

You have exhausted my patience,Trampled upon my solace.Making demands,Of those you fail to comprehend.Creatures beyond you.Monsters,Even.I grow weary,Of needy fools -Mawing at my wisdom.I will answer your questions,On my terms.Show respect,Honor.Or get lost.

Nothing But Fancy Words \\ Perverse Charisma.

No,Rough, jaded man.Your stern derision flagellating the cowardly.Some call it vibes.Others,Perverse charisma.I refer to it,As bending reality to your whims,Or wants.Everything boils down to systems.Even the seemingly chaotic.Pattern Recognition Symphonies.I'm an atheist witch,Rare,Amongst a world...