Eating Hydrogen, Then Helium.

Eating Hydrogen, Then Helium.

Sunshine Morbidities -Roadkill rotting in the sun,All full of maggots,In cycles of life.Sustenance pulled from other lifeforms,Plant Or Meat.Maximize my materials, Use every last piece for good. UV Radiation,From a ball of Nuclear Fusion -Eating Hydrogen,Then Helium.Death.Life.In One.

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Ideal Prey.

Ideal Prey.

Bodies dangling by necks,From weathered nooses.Necks tilted,In breaks or asphyxiations.Stunted visages of life -Brought low,Left to rot in wind & rain & sun,As grim warning.Such is the work of tyrants.Ideal prey,For a monster that eats monsters,Like me.Guillotines For Billionaires.

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My Skeleton Tea Party.

My Skeleton Tea Party.

The Hunt Is On.Stenches of blood in water,& air.Artist.Poet.Chasing skeletons.Only rivals I've got.Empty hollow sockets -Brains, selves, long decayed.Pursuing the ghosts that flee,From the drumming of my Infinite Creation.Digging up their bones;To gloat over coffee.My Skeleton Tea Party.

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Proximity: Approximate. Hypocrisy: Locked In.

Proximity: Approximate. Hypocrisy: Locked In.

Light piano notes,Like a cat doddering across keys.Proximity:Approximate.Hypocrisy:Locked in.Slow hours,Slow days,Slow months,Slow years,Slow decades,Slow centuries,Slow millennia.Maybe,Stay with me.These piano notes aren't real.Just another half remembered song or tune,Rattling around in our heads.

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Fray Or Riot.

Fray Or Riot.

Perhaps,Slaps across my face,Lace up my sutures.Pain for healing -Like correcting broken bones,Without surgery,Twisting & slotting fractured pieces.Putting me back together,Like contortionists.Say "stay."I'll stay.Fray or Riot.Fie,It tends to lose shape.That's rich.Just stitch me up.

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This Is My Fire; With Which To Fight Fires.

This Is My Fire; With Which To Fight Fires.

Sunsong,Moonsong,Doesn't really matter.Praying to beauty of nature,A la Astrophysics.Mass,Density,Volume.Worship of gravity,Rituals of spacetime.Bridging ancient black magic,With modern Empirical Method.This is my fire;With which to fight fires.My Religion;To fight other Religions.

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Goodnight, Void #89

Goodnight, Void #89

Goodnight, Void.Let's drift together -Beyond Boote's Void.Towards some distant Event Horizon,One of the last black holes to ever die.But alas,I'm mortal.You're Heat Death.Finite matter,Finite energy.I know you'll be so damn alone,At the end of all things.In that cold black eternal abyss.

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Greek Sculptors Be Damned.

Greek Sculptors Be Damned.

There's holes in my bucket,Dear Liza.Pygmalion Complex ablaze -Turn me from parody,To Victorian Noble.Lumberjack becomes most prolific poet.Or is it packs of lies,Divorced from literal reality?Spilling through rusted cracks,Or holes.Fate of many an old wheelbarrow;Like us.Moved entire...

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Granite & Conifers.

Granite & Conifers.

PYGMALION COMPLEXES:knowledge & truthStopped being many things,Possibly leaning into some possibilities.What use has the world,For a broken savant?Hybrid of an ancient age.Lumberjack writing phone poetry,Atop mountains,Gazing across entire valleys.Granite & Conifers.Who Have I Become?who

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A Sordid Dialect.

A Sordid Dialect.

When we speak real fast,Slang Tongues -In contractions or slurrings,Vowel changes or diphthongs.Enough root Latin in the mix,To know most romance bases at least.Logger talk,Full of disgusting slurs -From misogyny,To racism.A sordid dialect.Yet simple slang,Colloquialism slurry,Lives on.

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Putting Yaga To Shame.

Putting Yaga To Shame.

Tonight,I'm grateful.For inversions of fate;We made for ourselves.Fighting Fate -Warping & Twisting Destiny Itself,Through any black magic,We can manage.Putting Yaga to shame,As Matriarch.Stealing slang names,Used for great grandmothers.You know what this is like.Fortitudine.All this.

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Genetic Lotteries.

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.

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180 Degrees.

180 Degrees.

Failing to kill myself once or twice,Left long white scars.Cresting around my heart,Until forced to reckon with my mortality.Teenage Poet -When dying was better than living.Now,I'll fight tooth & nail,To live.Hard Knuckle Tactics -Towards every extra second I can scrape.180 Degrees. )()(

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Beyond Absolute Zero Of Space.

Beyond Absolute Zero Of Space.

Call.Perhaps I'll answer.Emerging from the endless inky depths,In gouts of displaced water.Tsunami Warnings.Fake Earthquakes.Rising above the water pressure,Of entire seas,Oceans,Weighted blankets -Beyond Absolute Zero of Space.An excess of something,To drown out my infinite nothing.

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Ripping Grandfather Clocks Apart, With Bare Hands.

Ripping Grandfather Clocks Apart, With Bare Hands.

Ticking.Tocking.Ripping grandfather clocks apart,With bare hands.Chiming every hour -Until sanity's all gone.Chinese water torture,Versus waterboarding.As if our own penance,We scribed,Wasn't worse."The Infinite Deconstruction Of The Self."Clocks?Ego Death;In the form of constant ritual.

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Neurodivergent Totalities.

Neurodivergent Totalities.

Listen.High pitched whines,Of electricity.Flowing in our walls & appliances.Smelling the air,Catching whiffs of smoke or skunk.Wringing hands,As we use incisors to bite off our dead flesh,Chewing nails to bloody quick.Human Body,Creaking & cracking,Popping & snapping.Braincage Prisons....

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Drowning Ourselves, With Golden Liquid Honey.

Drowning Ourselves, With Golden Liquid Honey.

Trapped,Within solemn caskets of flesh.Drowning ourselves,With golden,Liquid honey.Viscosity filling our lungs.Pumping it through our arteries,Preserving ourselves in partiality.Bone mongers,Death peddlers,Endbringers.Clawing at our skin,To let us out.Tearing at our eyes,Unto Eternity.

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Cruelty Is Passe.

Cruelty Is Passe.

Cruelty Is Passe.Ugly work of tyrants,Kings,Monarchs.Those whom use fear:Both tool -Plus weapon.Used to call me cruelest,Of all.My pretty words,Cutting deep into muscle fibers,Of thy hearts.Do you think I enjoy despair?Disgusting.Crave laughter.Smiles.After such a dark, sordid past.

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Ugly Truths.

Ugly Truths.

Ugly Truths.Why else do you think,They usually come from me?Ugly Person,Ugly Truths.That's usually been the case.Then they hire much more palatable actors,To play you in some biopic -Because Hunchback Of Notre Dame,Or Ugly Ducklings,Only sell one or twice.They want novelty,Not fact.

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Punk Witchcraft.

Punk Witchcraft.

Power belongs to nobody.Hear me Little Witches;That's always been the point.Punk Witchcraft -Using Blood Curses,Hexes,Fueled by agony & suffering -We bottled decades ago.Finally!A chance to use it!Evil for good.Good for evil.Ten thousand shades of grey,Between parallel lines.NOBODY.

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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...

Misanthrope.

One day,I will simply stop.Might be death,Could be ostracization -But likely?Misanthropy.

Ghost.

Ghost.Walking the empty halls,Long since abandoned.Ethereal self,Living one single breath to the next.Stranger in a strange land,Always walking alone.Phantom,Wreathed in spirits.Trailed by tethered dead,Spectres of those we have known.Carrying the dead with us.Onward.

One Single Epic.

Some idiot academic -Hundred years from now,Will've lost plot,Several hundred poems back.String 'em all together,They make up one single Epic.Order as one may choose.Do you know why I worship Entropy?Only religion,Where you fight an inevitable.Everything you're worth.Know how fun that is?

Manic Depressive Youth.

Look back:Manic depressive youth -Scarred by self destruction.Ending life,Or raking sharp steel across flesh.Anything to feel,In that real numb world.Grey hazes across Reality.Matching my dull grey irises;Glazed gazings.Any other dimension but this one.Better now.Been a long,Hard Road.

Goodnight, Void #1103

Planning in years,Decades,Centuries.Nothing new.Timelines of entire Universes,Knowing how this one ends.So I prefer to invent my own,Full of infinite possibility.Playgrounds for my grey matter.Sandboxes for Pattern Recognition.Cognition Itself In Paramount Acceleration.Goodnight,Void.

Spilling Secrets.

Many idols,Boiled down to simple values.Archaic beliefs,About honor,Truth,Or justice.Whose opinions do we value most?Strung along on wires of glistening hope.Speak,Friends.Enter into;Pacts with Fae,Or Fiend -Are rarely simple.Developing complexes,Very quickly.Spilling secrets.

Brainwashing Them Towards Utopia Via Force Feeding.

Broad strokes,Baby.You have to paint it small for them,First.Build upon the scaffolding.I've been min-maxing people for years,You must meet them where they're at!Paint a world,Show them what you can offer them.Many have spoken of fabled utopias,I'll fight for mine.I can play the warlord,As well as...

Capricious Little Godling!

Capricious little godling!Thy fate is death.That of all things.Drinking from black ichor -Venom of the world serpent.It will make you strong.Little fae.Infinite knowledge,Comes at great cost.Entangling one's soul -With eaters of worlds.Entropy dictates.Void declares.

But hey – Least my email still works, Right?

Legacies Of Lived Time:The web hosting,Of the 2nd most prolific poet in history,Is done by her old roomie.Watching them struggle now -Just to change hosting.My site gone to whitescreen oblivions.Millions of words wiped out in days.But hey -Least my email still works,Right?Silver linings!

Faux: Cheese Grater.

Faux:Cheese Grater. Asexual Elicitations -Long Before We Ever Knew.Or Is Queerness Always Knowing?Finding out sometime later. No sex -Sake of lust.Demi.Only gift myself to those,Find myself growing to love;Cherish. Faux:Rose Petal Waves.Cherry Blossom Waves. Sowing Calendula,Orange.

First Day of Winter Vacation,

First day of Winter Vacation,Decadence:Fruit & nut bread,Dipped in Lamb Cashew Curry.Australian import mangoes,4 for $55.Sitting at the table,Before bed.Juice running down my fingers,These are brand new worlds,And experiences.Once a pauper,Wearing hand me downs.T Shirts with holes in...

Skookum, Still.

These are my symbolisms,Scrawled across hashtags -In this damn-ed modern age.Nothing but Shakespearean deliveries,In mockery of my coming for him.Death threats upon dead poets,As if their ghosts were still here & haunting,As one day I hope to be.No cost too great,For my species.Bone dice, /1...

Cry.

Cry.Not havoc.Only acid rain tears,Echoes of old lovers.Melt into obscurity,As a novelty of an age.Nobody knows,Everyone whispers.Fatigue as common as breathing.Exhaustion as sure as pumping blood.Broken metaphors,Similes for eras.I am as ever,Writing my own epitaph.

Mental Empire Building.

I keep lists,Of people.Mental rolodexes of talent,For when I have needs to be met.Itemized knowledge,On tap.Saved in my lockjaw memory,For later.Roles,Positions,Salaries,Goalposts.A delicious machine,Designed by purest savant willpower,Slathered upon reality.