Down, Up, Left, Right.

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.^^^^^

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Can’t Hold Me Low.

Can’t Hold Me Low.

Laughing My Way Through Apocalypse,Ragnaroks We Saw Coming For Decades. 0 Cackle Like A Fool,Raised On Monty Python Too. 1 Morbid Amusements,Keeping Us Lucid In Attempts. 0 Can't Hold Me Low,You're Chained By Gravity Of Terra,Same Earth Upon My Shoulder Blades.Far too...

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Exponential Feedback Loops, A La Nuclear Fusion.

Exponential Feedback Loops, A La Nuclear Fusion.

Remember?Secular Atheism.Anarchist Ecosocialist.You know exactly where I stand.The Devil;One you've always known.Serpent in the garden of eden -Ouroboros to the Alchemists -Leviathan Jotnar,To others still.Anaconda Virtue.Cult Of The Wyrm.All just Metaphors,To me.Fire with fire.Running tongues...

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The Tenfold Divinities: THIRD DICTATA.

The Tenfold Divinities: THIRD DICTATA.

The Tenfold Divinities;There's sure to be inconsistency:Hallowed Entropy,Yet Solar Futures On The Brain.Clever Girl,Give us a twirl,Then.THIRD DICTATA;Cherish intelligence.Value divergence.Deign.Respect Plus Joy!Demand Our Savant Romances,We Always Dreamed Of.Platonic.Romantic.All.

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Laughing In Witchcraft.

Laughing In Witchcraft.

Horror As Genre?Not A Fan.Plots Thin As Paper Mache.Though,Enjoyed devouring terrors,Centuries ago.Puck!Ribs pulled open,Ate his bleeding heart.In process of eating,Said bleeding heart.Carnal power of tooth -Feasting via old black magic loops -Turning emotion to infinite energy.Laughing in...

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Tattoo Drumbeat.

Tattoo Drumbeat.

Tattoo Drumbeat.Needle in skin,Excess fluids,Ink,Wiped away with paper towel.Invoke "Tar Pits" in entirety:Right here.Now.Forcing allusion -Dimensions beyond scope,Or scale.Summon Black Ichor Venom,Dripping viscous noir.Metaphors as punches -Touching The Impossible,Against The Real.

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Act Like It.

Act Like It.

Feeling Power,In Moments Of Weakness.A True Witch,Learns the strengths in suffering.Long way round.When you're hurting -Be it anguish or agony,However you sacrifice enough,It feeds us back in exponentials,Every single possible vector -Mapped on solar scales.You're strong.Act like it.

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Fleeting Train Of Thought.

Fleeting Train Of Thought.

Brainfarting a half a dozen times,Yesterday.ADHD tendency to be five steps ahead -Pattern recognizing across several things,Until you lose a piece.Common to people like us:A fleeting train of thought,That just vanishes into our…Quite poor short term memory.Short?Goldfish.Long?Forever.

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Any Less.

Any Less.

Love like a thunderclap,Everything all at once.Even a lust,Long buried.Would you know it as a dream?I offer you:My everything.To take & keep,Or smash across the floor.Coexisting as per Schrodinger.Two things can simultaneously be true.Would you want me any less?

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Knowledge & Wisdom Are Different.

Knowledge & Wisdom Are Different.

Knowledge & Wisdom Are Different.Wisdom is lived experience,Well-lived stories.Tips & tricks of Elders,Regardless of Culture,Or Locale.Thousands of tiny secrets,On how to min-max living.Knowledge?Webs.Connecting ideas,Histories,Potentials,Via channeling torrents,Of Infinite Creation.

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Entropy Worship, Via Wyrm Cults.

Entropy Worship, Via Wyrm Cults.

Goodnight My Love;Darling Witching Hour Darknesses!Voids In Beautiful Swaths!You held me before my beginning.You will hold me after my end.Entropy Worship,Via Wyrm Cults,More…Rituals of irony,& hypocrisy.Loving The Void.Praying To Entropy.But Fighting Still;Heat Death,Winding Down.

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Many Paths Unto “Enlightenment.”

Many Paths Unto “Enlightenment.”

Sometime Post Ego Death -Two or three at least.We grow jaded,Whilst more self aware than ever before.Knowing Nirvana,Shangri La,Oneness With Universe,Across a dozen methodologies.Yet Trying To Balance Worlds,Upon Thy Shoulders.Enlightenment comes to me best,In Madness.Others,Meditation.

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Ice.

Ice.

Life Pro Tip:Drink from mugs,Porcelain steins or cups,Containers you can freezer,Half filled -Water or other Liquids,Becoming…Ice cube half on the bottom,For when you pour fresh chilled juice,Or pop atop.Popsicle ice cubing,With more frozen fruit,Or berries,For additional delights.

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Sentimental Totems.

Sentimental Totems.

Antler on the lawn,Gathered as totem.Kept in my care for decades -Long after the buck himself is dead.Allosaurus fossil fragments,Conch shells from Oahu.Unsharpened ornamental seppuku blade,From a night market.Old wooden feather pins,Via speaking at a potlatch,Wind chimes,Dreamcatchers,~

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Our War Is Our Own.

Our War Is Our Own.

Doing anything to stem the tide.Fighting for mere survival.When did we all become rats,In this maze? … Survivor's guilt in spades.Writhing in our own skin.So many dead men we've mourned. … Standing alone is fairly normal.Few can ever truly help us anyways.Our war is our own. …

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String Theory Against The Threads Of Fate.

String Theory Against The Threads Of Fate.

Like ribbons,Kaleidoscopes of energy.String Theory Against The Threads Of Fate.Appreciating colour -For it is fleeting at best,In a predominantly cold dark Universe.Stars in full spectrum of flames -White luminosity,Playing different colors,Through atmospheres.Yellow,Orange,Pink,Blue.Grey.

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Wisdom Is Accumulated. Foolishness Is Inate.

Wisdom Is Accumulated. Foolishness Is Inate.

Enough.Stop.Cease.Emerge into sunlight -To make your wakings real.Weaving curses of protection,A little before brunch.Witch in overcompensations,When the rest are mostly cattle.Slack jawed gapings,Unable to grasp -Even an iota of your knowing.Wisdom is accumulated.Foolishness is innate.

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Fuck Awards. Fuck Titles.

Fuck Awards. Fuck Titles.

Fuck awards.Fuck titles.Just more fucking things,To throw on the pile.Refuse critiques of anybody else,Whilst I've been working years in isolation.Who the fuck are you,To play critic to my work?Claim mastery,Superiority,Over me?Keep your titles.Fuck your awards.Refuse to play that game.

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Taking Time To Enjoy The Journey.

Taking Time To Enjoy The Journey.

Waltzing towards finish line,To take the podium as second.Taking time to enjoy the journey,Not the end point.Remember:Quit writing for a decade,Because I listened to the negative talk,Of fools.In reality,Such impossible goals?They were rather achievable,After all.So I'm enjoying myself,See?

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Nailing Severed Hands To Walls.

Nailing Severed Hands To Walls.

Slavemaster Brouhaha;Taking hands in penance,Nailing them to the wall -Until slimy & grey.Showing…What happens to those who see others,As tools,Or weapons,Not Humans.Genetics be damned.Melanin as a marker?Singularity doesn't care.Transhumanist Dreamings,As we hack our slavers to bits.

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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...

Carcinogens Will Kill Me Soon Enough.

Want me to breathe poison?I already am.Smoke pouring in jets,From my nostrils.Carcinogens will kill me,Soon enough.Just wait.Or maybe the obesity.Desperate to flip the mental switch,Back to better selves.When discipline came in spades,Due to unfortunate,Hair trigger anxieties.Just wait.

Fop & Dandy.

Prance with me,'Tis amusing to fop,And dandy.Eloquence in jest,Of my lumberjack origins.Victoria,Roll in thy grave!Punk will bastardize your era,And spit on thy virtues.Monarchs must be abolished,The people must be free.Let us dance amidst these flames,My darlings!

Vestigial Organs.

We exist.Two corpses in one.A dozen selves,Crammed into a single living space.Feelings can hardly matter -When we aren't even sure who we are.How many of us,Are already dead?Vestigial organs,Ancient identities.Are we antiques?Relics?Or reminders?

How to kill your ego:

How to kill your ego:Remember,You are dust -Echoes.A fragmented memory state,Decaying hard drives.Grasping at clout,Audience,Must be means to ends.Not validation,Or irresponsible pandering.There've been far smarter,Than you.So these goals are inherited.Who are you?

I’ll Stand By Your Side, Until The World Is Naught But Ruins.

This love will last for eternity,You know.I'll stand by your side,Until the world is naught but ruins. This love will reign forever,My darling.Dozen hues of pink.I'd fight for all my lovers. Champion you even as the last breath,Trickles from my lungs -A love like that.

WHO MOURNS FOR ENTROPY?

WHO MOURNS FOR ENTROPY?eater of worldsRavager Via Time.Should we feel sorry for truth?The finite nature of this universe:Long after the last black hole -Withers away to nonexistence.Void?Goodnight.Want to wake up tomorrow.Free from my dreams.Wish you goodnight,Again.& again.Forever.

Cold Iron.

Thy nature is entropic,Bending the wisps of nearby souls.Pulling them as magnetism pulls iron.Cold iron is poison to us.We must dilute it into steel.To kill a Jotnar,Of my size.One would need railgun slugs,Of cold iron.Cold hammered into shape.Heated to settle.Straight through my skull,From a...

Death.

Death, be thou proud.For none stand as mighty nor as dreadful as thee.I stand quaking at the thought of your taking of me.Tremble at your cold dark touch.I’m not ready.Not yet.I don’t want you to take me.I want to soar among the stars.I want to leave a mark that places me into history.I want to...

Until bittersweet one liners – Guillotine.

Tears;Disgusting snorts.Our fragile selves.Dead Selves we sometimes cradle,Regret for deaths ensued.Cannot revive the dead.Only the living.Such is circles of things.I'm not dead yet.Try as life might,To kill me.Want to drag out my inevitable end,Until bittersweet one liners -Guillotine.

I Can Hear Your Prayers.

I can hear your whispered prayers,Out here in the void.Pleas to an absent creator,Who never talks back,Never existed in the first place.Conjured up by the dead.Are thoughts & prayers,Meant to be a secret?Or…Does it scare you,To know us cryptids are listening?What is your devotion worth?When...

Had never happened.

"The World Is Too Much With Us."Wordsworth,You fool.The world is on fire:This rock is run by idiots,& bigots.Dictators,& ignorance."Idiocracy."Misanthropy roiling in my gut.Disgust plastered across my face.Fascists walking proudly in the sun,As if World War Two -Had never happened.

Watching The Weaving Of Patterns.

To see the world,Reflections and refractions.Trillions of lifeforms in set ecologies,The brutal calculus.Food chains.Predation.Physics.A web so vast -Even those like myself,Minds touched with madness.We can hardly keep track.Fleeting pictures of the whole.Sacred duty.

Hail From The Land of Sunsets.

Hail from The Land of Sunsets.Sun ruling our lives.From pouring rain,In torrentials -Begging for Sol's light through grey clouds.Then withering under her embrace,As forests burn in drought Summers.Heat.Smoke.Homes to ash.Dawn.Dusk.Twilight.She disappears each eve,Over the Pacific.

Genetic Lotteries.

Pity.Due to genetic lotteries,I remain aloof,From general populations.Clever,But strange.Odd in unsettling ways.Most folk dislike our aura.Uncomfortable discomfort;Around us neurodivergents.So I'll likely remain,Hermit Guru,Isolated artist,Until I die.Loneliness isn't so bad,Though.

Indestructible.

Waiting is a forte.Patience used as shield,From my many enemies.FORTITUDINESpeak only truth,& stand up against injustice.Not a kind to meditate -Spine straight,Legs crossed.Type of Guru,Trying to walk up a hill most days;In flip flops.Good enough for Buddha?Good enough for me!.()()()