The Old Arts.

The Old Arts.

Love Them.Even If I Never Say It Directly.The Old Arts.Irony.Hyperbole.Quadruple Entendres,At minimum.Hypocrisy -To Play Jester;Directly At Power.Only last bastion of truth,Hidden in laughter.Gunbarrels.Foreheads.First hearty.Then forced.Stale.Finally monotone,Deranged,Repetitive.

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Your Gods’re Dead.

Your Gods’re Dead.

Your Gods're Dead.Ate 'Em Myself -With Reason,Plus Rationality.Thank Fuck -Post Empirical Method.Striving for Truth,Far more manageable.Least with right tools.More than one way,To kill gods.Old fashioned rituals,Or erase their memory,Thus extinguishing worship.Old Sun Gods.New.Easy.

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Wooden Spoons.

Wooden Spoons.

Fifteen Minutes Past!Naughty Naughty.Spankings All 'Round.You Giggle -Giddy.Nothing fun;Afraid.Remember hiding in locked bathrooms,For hours.Knowing when I came out,Was getting hit with wooden spoons.One point even had a frowny face.Drawn on.Black sharpie.Guess it fucks us up,Eh?

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To Quell My Furnaces.

To Quell My Furnaces.

People you think're chill,Rarely are.Hiding neuroses,Or more often?What seems to be undiagnosed mental illness.Speaking,Both former -Latter.Don't aspire to be like me.Don't want this hell.Seeking Entropy -Heat Death Itself,To Quell My Furnaces,Of Infinite Creation.Stars dying out.

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Fingertips Always Numb.

Fingertips Always Numb.

Thrumming Of Heavy Bass Strings,Fingertips Always Numb.Lacerations Aplenty.Sounds Of Steel Splintering Wood -Crushing Sans Proper Delicate Touch."Go Back To Being An Operator."Fuck Buddy,Might Have To.Nobody gives a shit I'm most prolific,At anything.Still gotta pay my fucking rent.

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Take Us Home.

Take Us Home.

Speed Of Darkness,Take Us Home.Everything Other Than Photons,What About Covers…Anything Light Don't Touch.Shadowman,See my endless mouths of teeth?Tar Pits Oozing Black Ichor Venom.Cryptids One & All.Entropy?My Mistress.My Master.My Mortality.Inanimate Guarantees.Beautiful Sadnesses.

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White Flakes Of Toxic Snow.

White Flakes Of Toxic Snow.

Slowly,Piece by piece.Fighting for what pieces we can save,From the coming flames.When our pattern recognition -Is screaming at us:"Something is wrong.Look again. Check again."Wildfire Ash,White flakes of toxic snow,Settling on arms.Drifts upon the winds -Hazes in front of headlights.

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Attention Deficits.

Attention Deficits.

MOREshushIce Cream & Syruped Slush -Unto Brain Freeze.Yet Beast Always Goes Back for More.Some Stimulation.Any Stimulation,Better than hells of bored,Depressed,Monotony.Gram always gaslit us that bored -Wasn't a thing.Jokes about 2 x 4s.Attention Deficits,Infinite Creation.Can't stop.

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Fool Of A McRae! \\ Goodnight Void #401

Fool Of A McRae! \\ Goodnight Void #401

Goodnight,Void.Logger Guru.Old Man.Before you die -As all do -Need to understand.Foucault Dictates:Language Is Power.Speaking Something,Gives It Power.Tell Me To Eschew Such Titles.Fool of a McRae!Morbid hilarity;Of a Lumberjack Poet -More prolific than any other.Absurdity In That.

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Driving The Duffy In Thunderstorms:

Driving The Duffy In Thunderstorms:

Driving The Duffy In Thunderstorms:Thirty most of the way,Active rockfall -Slowly changing to empty oncoming lanes,For rocks,Small boulders -Common to sketchy mountain passes.Sleet.Howling storm winds,Trees,Branches,Adding to hazards.Coming down,The usual.Avoiding brake drums catching fire;Engine...

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Sound Of Rain.

Sound Of Rain.

Sound Of Rain.An Old Comfort.Back When I Used To Peel Windows,Wide Open.To Listen To The Downpour -Constant From Fall To Spring,In Temperate Rainforest Climates.Sleep To Artificial Sounds,Recorded Somewhere Else -Long Ago.Two Breakups;Ended With Thunder.Lightning.Torrential Rain.Hah.

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That Slavic Folk Magic.

That Slavic Folk Magic.

Perhaps my preconditions,Are alarming?That Slavic Folk Magic,Comes from blacker moonless nights?Baba Yaga?Child's Play.I have zero desire;To feast on children,Or suck power straight from bone marrow.Domovoy under my command -Have softer duties,Or tasks.My eyes & ears,In a broken world.

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Matriarchy Of Darkness;

Matriarchy Of Darkness;

Matriarchy Of Darkness;A Coven -A Corporation -A Calling -A Culling -Free of certain combinations of letters,Words,That might shackle me to existence.No more True Name;To ever chain me in this reality again.Witch,Witchcraft,Eschewing Pagan Wicca,For my own darker cults,Of Humanism.

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A Useless Necessity.

A Useless Necessity.

Money;Actually doesn't contribute -To Terra spinning on an axis.Nor does it offer nutrients,Sustenance,Directly.Currency is fabricated!Assigned value.Economics?Merely a Social Science,No real quantitative data to speak of,Outside the mathematics of Statistics.Money?A Useless Necessity.

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Domination Over Reality.

Domination Over Reality.

Is this all there is?Or is there more,Somehow?Realms I cannot touch,Or unlock,Despite all my intellect,Or mastered skillsets.Domination Over Reality.Something denied to me,For decades.Wish to be the shadow,That writhes between cracks.Distorting this dimension,Until I'm finally free.

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Goodnight Void #17

Goodnight Void #17

Goodnight Void.Remain my own worst enemy.Failing in ways I need to succeed.Death is lurking,Her skeletal teeth pressed against our neck.Death's Head.Beauty & Grace.Discipline,Monk!Please.Just a semblance of self control.Helpless in stupid ways,Executive Dysfunction Roaring.Sweet Dreams.

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Valhalla Awaits.

Valhalla Awaits.

Logger Guru;I've sung my war songs,Written my war poems,To go alongside Burns -& Flanders Fields.Might never see those celtic homelands,Whilst another motherland remains at war.Fighting for independence.Striving to just exist.Know struggle,Old Man.You wanted to go fight,Even now.My vows of...

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Slavic Jokes.

Slavic Jokes.

Old Man,Don't you get it?Cartoon or not.Remain a Villain.Skewed antagonist -Typecast ad nauseam.I've a new name.Free from cages of words.Slavic Jokes.What we called my Great Grandmother,"Old Lady" where my blood runs.In other countries -Father.Others still -Priest or Cleric.Witch?Yes.

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Baba, Old Hag.

Baba, Old Hag.

The Infinite Hunger,Gluttony For Dopamine.A Blood Curse I can never sate.Not entirely.Down to a dull roar at least.Laughter on the wind.Wind upon our faces.Chuckles beneath it all.Stoic,Zen,Just call myself Hermit Guru.Hidden from the world,My Masteries Hoarded To Myself.Baba,Old Hag.

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Resist The Yoke.

Resist The Yoke.

Fight.Refuse to be enslaved,Be it old fashioned chains -Or new-age wage slavery.Resist the yoke.Burn the fences.Melt down chain links for steel,Make bullets or swords from your prisons.Evil Oligarchs,Vile Capitalism,Maximizing profit on our fucking backs.Aren't you sick & tired of it all?

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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...

Fingers Trailing Through Decades Like Water.

Self Destruction Can Be Fun In Temperance.Echoes In Time Or Space,As We So Desire.Fingers Trailing Through Decades Like Water.Seeds Left To Grow As Best One Could,With Resources Available.Exhaust Ourselves Further.Further,In Processes Of Doing So.Star Fusion Lifespans,Sharing Warmth.Heat.

I’ll Still Love You.

I'll love you.That is the only thing I can promise.When the world is cascading down,Skyfall unto the apocalypse.When I breathe my last breath.I'll love you.For all the hurt you caused,The tragedy-strewn histories.I promise the world,And to lie.To fall to oblivion.

Roaming Intellect.

Thought to thought to thought to thought to thought to thought.Speak it.Write it.Read it.Until the words look wrong,As if spelled incorrectly.Doubting ourselves.Were we sure?Which memories are ours?Which were planted by abusers?May never know.Roaming intellect.World under my microscope.

Today, I Beat My Hunger.

Today,I beat my hunger.Managing to make one good choice,Against many poor ones.Let's hope this is a first,In a long period of discipline.Returning to the monk,I'd rather be.Now,Looking like Buddha,How ironic.Every day.Must beat myself every day.Attain victory over myself.At all costs.

The Grin Tells All.

Color of certainty.Quiet reflections,In lieu of any meditation.Nothingness was the state I came in.Pygmalion,True.The act of dissection:The Infinite Deconstruction of The Self.Then;The Tenfold Divinity.The Infinite Hunger.The Long Road Home.A shitty monk.I do not clear my mind,In quiet...

Steak & Eggs. // Holodomor;

Fuck this.Was gonna do stir fry & rice.Instead,In glorious Gluttony:Steak & Eggs.Using meat as meat,Sans fillers.One day I might even be able,To eat a Tomahawk,One every week!Highly doubt it.But maybe!Dare to dream of feast -Instead of our eternal famines.Holodomor;On through.

Lollygag To Steal Silver.

How do I catch up?Well,Starters,Only two rivals?Both already dead.Shame.Numbers can't climb much posthumous.So perhaps I'll take my time.Lollygag to steal Silver,From William's mummified corpse.Digging up Bradburne's coffin eventually,To pluck gold from around his neck.Nice titles.Mine,Now.

Ugly Body.

Pretend,That we're still lovers.Grotesquery and all.This ugly body pressed up against glass.Humble despair at a lack of self control.I loved you,Once.As I'll love them all evermore.Could you ever love me again?

“Place Smelled Like It For Decades.”

Enough.Enormous Goal Post Near?Can Wait.Taste It.Smell It On Air.Director Asked If I Smelled Propane.Joked:"Place Smelled Like It For Decades."Give Ghosts,So You Play At Fusion -On 'Morrow.Wanna Know Secrets?Bare Borne,Mine Are?Still skip monologue of "That Power."'Erry Time.

Goodnight, Void #2009

Goodnight, Void.May This Winter Rain -Bring Soon Hopeful Blankets Of White.Proof We Can Hope,That It Isn't Too Late.City Shuts Down.Fine By Me.Poems Simply Flow In Endless Soliloquy.You motherfuckers hardly even see -Some fraction of it!Lost Lines.Lost Hearts.Lost Selves.Lost Words.

This Pure Unbridled Want Should Terrify You.

Beasts in madhouses -Bulls in china shops -Wyrmlings in excess of creation.This pure unbridled want,Should terrify you.Like looking at entropy itself.Black hole nirvanas.Coils upon your heart,As shared symbolisms suggest.Scintillating,Isn't it?Let's drift,Shall we.

PNW.

Torrential Downpours,Are common to this Pacific Northwest,Of mine!Craving the four months of Summer,Between aeons of rain.Solar Powered.

Dead Art Form. \\ Dead Medium.

200-Something.All that stands between:5 Years Of My Poetry,& Shakespeare's entire portfolio.Didn't think I'd hit this first milestone,Goalpost,So quickly.Alas!Dead Art Form.Dead Medium.Replaced by A.I.Still -Even if nobody cares but me?It was a worthy war.Enjoyable battle.Good fight.

Pitches. Torches. Hemlock.

You know why I don't feel bad,When people accuse me of grandiosity?Firstly -I'm a writer.The Fucking Morons.Hyperbole:Both weapon & tool,Kiddos!State Truth.Perfect mirror reflection.People dislike it,When anyone speaks truth.Mobs kill those people,With pitchforks.Torches.Hemlock.

Chimp At My Typewriter.

Bah.A Chimp At My Typewriter -Composing Greater Works Than Shakespeare.Knuckle Dragger;Beast In Crave Of Love.Prefer To Capitalize Out Of Turn -Spite An Old Colleague For Fun.Had A Huge Crush On Her In Grade 8.Fresh Graduate,Guitar & Sunshine.Prescriptivist Linguistics,Language,To Fault.