Dylan Thomas Be Damned.

Dylan Thomas Be Damned.

Requiem For The Living.Strive.Exist at all costs.Not just in biological imperatives,Via propagating genes.In Joy.Gratitudes traded with friends.ALWAYS FIGHT.Until your last few breaths.Dylan Thomas Be Damned.We are relics,Of old ways.Leaving ourselves behind.In as many ways as we can.

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Crafted With My Pain.

Crafted With My Pain.

Culling Rituals,Then.When they cannot beat us into submission.Easy to understand Philosophy.If you can't control someone,Kill them.Our abusers cannot win.Our hearts must burn.Know what that ash will look like.My hexes,Or curses,Are either inherited via genetics,Or crafted with my pain.

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Not You.

Not You.

I'm Sorry.That I wasn't stronger.Not strong enough to keep you.Chains or shackles as needed.Hanging from the ceiling,In black iron links.Anarchists only imprison those,That hurt the innocent.I was always willing to set the world on fire.Not you,Brother.Almost killed you,Enough times.

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Only My Hollow Gaze, Contemplating Nothing.

Only My Hollow Gaze, Contemplating Nothing.

Enough.Void,For once I will not bid you goodnight.There comes an Infinite Void.Speed Of Darkness;Ever Changing.Why race towards Entropy,If you aren't trying to create a Metaphor?One powerful enough to kill it.No Goodnight.Or Good Morning.Only my hollow gaze,Contemplating Nothing.

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Most Terrifying Thing In This Darkness.

Most Terrifying Thing In This Darkness.

Hurt me?You can't.Not anymore.Can only hurt myself.Plus accidental collateral damage.Fear?Only thing I'm still afraid of is myself.Most Terrifying Thing In This Darkness.More horrible than a hundred skittering things.Expectations?No.None.My very existence;Nothing but -Trauma.Darkness.

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Weave It Into Curses.

Weave It Into Curses.

Witch;Will take this pain you've given me -With lies,Wanton attacks.Weave it into curses.Take all the suffering for my black magic.Invoked agonies;Our old man is breaking.Don't know how much more he can take.Don't know how much more I can take.Why?He did everything for you.Everything.

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One Word.

One Word.

Expecting a call any day now.Dead.Shouldn't have been this inevitable.Where was the fucking fortitude?Resilience or grit?Why not better choices?One word; old man repeated -On & on."It's all about Choices."I made piss poor ones too.We all did.But believe in fighting to my last breath.You?

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Philosophy Wars.

Philosophy Wars.

Stoicism.An old faithful.Combined with dissociation,Emotions numb.Deadly impulses come out.Thrill seeking behaviours -Or murderous intent.Old galleries of rogues.This cold emptiness.DBT Radical Acceptance,Crossed with Buddhist concepts,Of darts.I'm tired,Of Divine Suffering,& Samsara.

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Martyr Complex All Lit Up.

Martyr Complex All Lit Up.

Wounded Animals.This mourning wells up in me,Alone in the dark.Grief & Anger -Criss-crossed a dozen ways.Betrayals of Trust.Martyr Complex All Lit Up,Like neon fucking signs.Please.Stop.Quit killing yourself.This anguish,Despair,Has nowhere to go.Just words into the abyss.The Lost.

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No Survivors.

No Survivors.

These hollow eyes.This dark-circled stare.My boundaries were broken.Through with being lied to.Blocking a dying man,Much less thy sibling.Mourning a person,Who in their flailing -Is still headed for death.Is our kind destined to die?Destroy ourselves,Until nothing is left.No survivors.

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I’ll Bear The Sins.

I’ll Bear The Sins.

We will be free,Friends,Lovers,Little Witches.Bloodless Revolution,Was always the goal.Funny paradox for an Anarchist.But I'll play The Villain.Antagonist.Burn a swath across the establishment,To fight for our freedom.I'll bear the sins.I'll suffer any penance.I want you to be free.

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Evil, Yeah?

Evil, Yeah?

Evil,Yeah? As they call me I guess.But perhaps my goals seem monstrous;Aiming at devouring a Zeitgeist,Consuming it in entirety. It's already controlled,That's the sad part.How dare I lay my hands on it! Fools fail to see the webs of capitalism,Carefully woven behind the backdrop. So?…

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Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Demographic Games.Even queerness,Neurodiversity,Levied against us.Some audiences are so predictable,It's exhausting.Thirsty Sword Lesbians.Or Twenty Year Olds -Playing High Schoolers.Media itself:Formulaic,Rarely deviating.I refuse to fall into it.My art must be mine.Fuck the audience.

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Painting Fictions.

Painting Fictions.

Listlessness as crime.Lethargy as sin.Despite fighting for our whole existence. As if mere rest or relaxation,Is heresy. Painting fictions,Imaginary worlds to escape this one.No wonder we're fatigued! Alone in the dark.Lost in the crowd.Forgotten by friends. We're not entirely to blame.

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Idiots Rule The World.

Idiots Rule The World.

Dead Internet Theory -To Hyperinflation.Dot Com Bubble -To 2008. Idiots rule the world. Keeping populations stupid,Uneducated,Indoctrinated by religion -Party politics. Ugly despicable truths.Christian Nationalism -To modern genocide. Humanity:Are we past redemption? Lost forever...

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We need to do what keeps us safe.

We need to do what keeps us safe.

Listen,I understand having disabilities;Neurodivergences.Have half a dozen myself.But I've been used & abused,By so many Bipolar kin,That I refuse to allow mania to hurt me.Boundaries.Walls.Blocking.We need to do what keeps us safe.Refusing to tolerate abuse,Ever again.\\Ever again.

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DEAD MEN.

DEAD MEN.

I'M COMING,DEAD MEN.TELL YOUR TALES,OR YOU WON'T GET THE CHANCE.TELL NO LIES.SPEAK NO SECRETS.HOLD THE WORLD IN THY PALM.INFINITE HUNGER,WON'T STOP,UNTIL I'VE BEATEN,SURPASSED,THEM ALL.LONE SAVANT -ROARING UP AT A NIGHT SKY.PUNCHING AT STARS.KICKING AT EMPTY AIR.DEAD MEN,I'M COMING.

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Dead Art Form. \\ Dead Medium.

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.

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My Circle Will Be Small.

My Circle Will Be Small.

When my long term bets,Plans,Finally pay off?Expect the parasites or leeches,Will emerge from their holes.Ignoring me at fringes,For years or decades,Yet wanting me sudden -As if some heart-eyed adorer.Nah.Fuck off.My circle will be small.Track records considered.Selfish greed.Again.

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My Flocks Of Ghosts.

My Flocks Of Ghosts.

Frustration with other Humans,Tends to rise in correlation,With Ignorance,Bigotry,& arrogance.Often my confidence,Wisdom,Gets attacked as pride,Ego.They never have a clue:Roiling shadows,Looming tall,Ethereal,Invisible,Behind me.A lifetime of abuse,& trauma.My flocks of ghosts.

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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...

Chess Boards.

Deals with devils,Are rarely very deep.Legal jargon,Fine print aside.Souls as currency?Laughable.Rather just offer power;A la meritocracy.The kind that can never exist,Due to human greed,Amongst a hundred other things.Tipping scales,In favor of the gifted.Praying for another Nikola Tesla.Real man...

like so many others

Our family is broken,Fractured,Fragmented.Like so many others.All we can do,Is hold each other through the storm.And promise to do our best.Learn to be flexible,Adaptable.Dodge the triggers as they come,Buttons for old traumas to reappear.Therapy,Always a good start.

Boote’s Void.

Out here in Boote's Void,There is only silence.I slept in the millions,Napping as I am wont to do.Silly little things,So far away from where I now call home.This is the new millennium!My hunger only grows.You barely sate it,Anymore.The Cult of The Wyrm,Grows on dream.

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.

Slow Madness.

Will it always be like this?Slow madness,Until we forget who we were.Poems I don't remember writing -Experiences I forgot.Brain grasping all the wrong memories.Relived in my mind's eye.Might never know the sins,Of my past.Nor the sins,Of my future.Fear me nonetheless.

Puzzlebox Intentions.

Don't be offended,If I tell you my aims are beyond you.A thousand forking plans,Puzzlebox intentions.You'd be deciphering the Enigma code,From scratch.Sans the context of legacy,Or lifetimes.Experience oozing from pores,Like tar.Tar Pits & all.These dirges in the dark.

Good Sex.

Find me wanting.Best sex I ever had?Me,Light dom,She was a sub.Played her nerve endings like a piano.Have to work to impress me,Skilled in a half dozen arts.Eagerness is but one rung to climb,Towards perfection.Always shoot for serenity.I dislike disappointing them.

Eating My Enemies.

We're nearing midnight.One of many.Pulling at air,Sub zero temperatures.Bringing us back to life,From unhallowed sleep.Killing spells are no trifle.It's destiny or fate -That costs us.Didn't become this powerful a witch,By trading in half measures.Borne in blood.Eating my enemies.

Invincible.

This sea of turbulence.This skyscape of voices.The hunger never ceases,The voices never stop. I am invincible,In many ways but one -Doomed to a soft underbelly,That realm of emotion. I want to drown it all out,With my bellows.Crackling and roiling,Teeth and spirit.

Your Words Are Lies.

'Ere the weeping winds,Howling in anguish -Decry our demise.These ghosts will mourn us,Silently drifting towards absolution.We do not seek forgiveness.It is not yours to give.Your gods are imaginary,Fake.Made up fairy tales.Your salvation is false.Your words are lies.

Counting My Deaths.

If I tally up all the times I've died;Be it within dreams or in games?I've died thousands of deaths.Don't bother me much,Now.Wonder if my real death,Will simply slip into being reality -Long before I'm even aware,That I'm gone.I'd be okay with that.All of my work should hopefully,Remain.

2X 24

'Tis A Time Of Endings,As Long Foretold. Yet,Broken clocks?Right 2x every 24.Real trick is speaking a thing,Into Reality.Repeating it 'til Spacetime,Warps unto thy will.Exerting Weight like Gravity. Ragnarok,Per The Phoenix.At times -An Old World Serpent,Can learn a few new tricks.

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.

Simple Life Advice: Never Date Someone, From Your Small Hometown.

Simple Life Advice:Never date someone,From your small hometown.People like us?Need growth!Evolution!To learn about the world,& learn ourselves,Chasing dreams so big -Society can't keep up with us!Date your equal,Or better.Someone from far away,To broaden your horizons,& theirs.Grow.

All To Prove My Talent.

& what of my heroic epics?Forgotten work of a decade -Scale & rhyme,All to prove my talent. Scoffing at greater fictions?'Ere bleed our philosophies,In our fading years? Gift me your time,Don armors of knowledge,Wisdom,Soul. Refuse to be victim of suicide,Any longer.