Marrow.

Marrow.

Why is it that you do not stop, after eating your delicious red meat dinner? Take the time to crack the bones, and suck the marrow? You devour the flesh of another creature, but find it detestable to take out all the nutrients? Perhaps I should make sure, the next time I am eating broccoli, to...

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Laugh Track.

Laugh Track.

Boiling in my lungs, tungsten gas and hot air, bellowing flame with a snort,Chortling with ease, pleasing you to stop, got me hot under the collar with chuckles,Buckling down and squeezing necks, flexing pecs, doing the giggle trek,You’re killing me, spontaneously and rhetorically,But I can’t help...

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Glory.

Glory.

For those that mock death with open arms. Enticing him ever closer with his black wings. Fighting against him with faith or blood. Enduring as a species. It is glory in the midst of the fray. The struggle that gives us strength. We ignore the consequences. All for glory.

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Insomniac.

Insomniac.

Waking hours blur into fits of unwanted sleep.Times not appropriate for closed eyes or dreaming minds.And yet - no sleep comes when it is wanted.In those wee quiet hours of the morning.Endless cacophonies of sound - rage in the head like a torrent of horror show backgrounds.Worries, doubts, and...

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For A Friend.

For A Friend.

Dear, you mean more than some underscore written by a semantic. Right now you’re frantic, it probably feels like your heart’s been torn right out of the bone cage you were born in, leaving you to bleed out lost and alone. I surmise that my eyes can’t pierce your pain, much like the rain can’t...

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Soulfire.

Soulfire.

There’s a fire burning in my soul.It burns my heart up each day.Vents heat through my nostrils.My brain melts down.My hands catch flame.I’m burning up.Just burning up.I’m burning up.Just burning up.

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Decipher Me Of Blood And Bone. // Keeping Score.

Decipher Me Of Blood And Bone. // Keeping Score.

Decipher me of blood and bone,To identify the issue prone,For nothing ever seems to lack,Yet love-in-mulling right on track,Interpret me a sea of years,Whisper me a sea of dry-bone tears,But mention once a viper sting,From soft inheritance of life doth sing,And silent holiest of holy nights,Chases...

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An Old Love From Decades Ago. // Cynthia.

An Old Love From Decades Ago. // Cynthia.

Perhaps it’s the past, lasting from there to here, yesteryears making me fear for your safety. What we thought we had, but turned out to be deeper than tide pools, young fools with a long distance fling over the internet. Cynical, but I’m willing to bet that it would have burned out, pouting in...

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Speed Of Darkness.

Speed Of Darkness.

Stage Direction: For Newer Slam Poets Or Actors - Deliver In As Mocking Of A Slang Hick Dialect As Possible. Fear Mongers got driven mad by stronger foes, got a lock for yonder hoes, big business to slick Elizabeths, turn a trick to break the cysts, hundred dollars, fuck it, holler, touch a spot...

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Crucible.

Crucible.

Each day - I am loathe to look in the mirror,And see the creature I have chosen to be.Because it reminds me of the power I could wield. But there is a sobering reassurance,In knowing I would live in the dark,But chose the light instead. A far holier man than I could invoke divinity.Yet I trust...

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10:38am to 1:08pm

10:38am to 1:08pm

Promise me a sunshine songForever and a dayShe sang As if perfect were such a solaceBut darker broods oft lingered thereAnd liars made quite honest I made a rendezvousOf bitter stateExpecting just as worse But brought down as suchThe jack of tradesMaster yet of some And mourning ritesForever...

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Change.

Change.

Alliteration never prepared me for the conflagration that is change: Ranging from sudden shock to long term anxiety, riding me from top to ground, each round lasting longer than the next. I keep on meeting and greeting but every moment is fleeting, each door opening and closing simultaneously. I’m...

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Too Many Heart Songs.

Too Many Heart Songs.

Ripping forth my demons like a hundred angry gnats is an exercise of my true faith.Clawing them out from within, to fill doubtful air,Swarming hungrily a thousand times over.This is one of my only religions.A self-flagellation - singing the heart songs of dead witches; pagan ancestors from a dozen...

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Allan Ginsberg, I am not a Gay Buddhist.

Allan Ginsberg, I am not a Gay Buddhist.

Allan Ginsberg, I am not a Gay Buddhist. I am not privy to the secrets of the world through your eyes. I have never been to Australia. Never been mugged leaving my home. Never protested the Vietnam war through cryptic poetry, as it has not existed in my lifetime. I don’t think I’ll ever sit and...

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Tar Pits.

Tar Pits.

The rage is fuel enough for a million tiny light bulbs, all flickering wildly in the dark. A limitless supply of icy white frosted flaky bones; cold rage as power of will. Wrapped up in telephone wires - we reach out to the four winds and echo the silence of our fears. A grisly man, lacking fears...

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Madness Is As Madness Does.

Madness Is As Madness Does.

Madness is as madness does,But sometimes madness, just because.And wicked are as wicked do,But special kinda’ wicked - such is true. Hungering for something, a hidden depth,Silent stirring - undercurrents swept,A humming tone beneath the waves,What heart and mind swiftly comes to crave. A break in...

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Some Days.

Some Days.

Some days, the way of ways is to collapse. The end of reason brings hateful seasons, degenerate heathens of misquoted treasons. For free to see the seas churning and be it me or insanity, I'm lost. Gun-cocked by generations, chopping blocks and shale rocks, when it all comes together. I'm locking...

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Rain.

Rain.

Not raining. But feels like a downpour.Torrent of rain and blood and emotion.Landing on my back with a sick icky thump.Crushing me beneath the weight of inebriation, and my morals.Bullets on a tin roof.Hail on glass.And my very being, dragged through the mud in the midst of the storm.Crushed...

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Drinking Brandy at 12pm on a Sunday,

Drinking Brandy at 12pm on a Sunday,

Drinking Brandy at 12pm on a Sunday,And perhaps language is the thing more broken,Than hungry eyes or a void shallow heart,Looking more predator than prey,Yet yearning to be the latter. Wrapping wrists in chains,The laugh and tinkle of false innocence,But footsteps ring on wood,And being solitary...

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Pandora’s Box.

Pandora’s Box.

Pandora’s Box is nothing more than a school of hard knocks.Where wise elders tell me to fall down and scrape my knees bloody.Because it’s the only way to learn.It’s a metaphor for finding truth in logic, and emotion in irrationality.So I’m swimming in that pool of tears.Black acid eating away at...

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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...

21st Century Witchcraft.

A spell in three parts,Sung in eighths.Retch intent into it,These poor facsimiles,For better incantations.The rhythm doesn't matter,It's willpower that works the wont.Cascading contentions & calamities,Warping wills & wisdoms,Worlds & wanderers.I can teach you,Darling.

Which Selves Have I Slaughtered?

Laugh when people accuse me,Of ego.Clueless to my journey.Ignorant of this brutal path.How many ego deaths by now?Which selves have I slaughtered?Just.Shut.Up.Must remain stoic.That old saying comes to mind:"Lions do not concern themselves,With the opinions of sheep."…I'm no lion.

The Chains of Civility.

I'll be their knight forever,Chivalry be damned.Kneeling before honor,Duty to old blood oaths.It rankles my dark heart,To be used thus.Called to arms,For those that abandoned me.I detest pomp and circumstance,Despise the chains of civility.

Me, Neither.

Words,Upon words.Frantic typing,Or tapping with thumbs.Endless procrastination:Converted towards new hunts.Smell of blood upon the air,From buried corpses I intend to surpass.Cackling madly under the full moon,When it's done.I am endless.Don't you ever fucking forget that.Me,Neither.

Bureaucrats

Justice?The bureaucrats scoff at the word.Status quo.Head down.Shut up.Equity? Laughable.Peel yourself off the fender of the bus,The one they threw you under.They will only ever protect themselves.Justice?A waking dream.Too bad.

Roving Dream Hermit.

The dreams that aren't nightmares -Have one shared feature.I'm packing up my life,Moving like a hermit yet again.Or out in the wilds,Journeying.Bags packed,Going somewhere.Devoid of any true home.What is my subconscious telling me?With all my belongings ready to go.

Offerings.

For inspiration, I offer my art.For politics, I educate on anarchism.For honor, I offer my blood curse.

Heir To Matriarchs.

I am the witch,That whispers nighttime wisdoms.Murmurs in the dark,Full of truth and learning.Heir to matriarchs,Eclipsing of the blood.Greater stories yet linger.Sneaky peeps,Eyes glinting in the darkness.This witch can hear your breathing,Listening to my secrets.

Trap Door Spider Chique. \\ An Even Darker Brew Of Baba Yaga.

Being seen,Is strange.For some of us;Happens so seldomly,That we become frozen without a mask.Having been used to navigating a world,Devoid of others like you.Chameleon amongst riff raff.Trap door spider chique.Free to play the villain -All we want.It's jarring.Frozen;On pause.Deer in headlights...

Burn Bright, Little Souls.

Fragile nothings,Spirals of emotion -Adrift on cosmic winds.Souls burning like flames,In the dark.White hot.World Serpents,Drinking what's left of worship -Coiled across a universe.Coils warping space time,Where they tangle.This age of fire,Is fleeting.The chance at a golden age,Passing us by,In...

Still Take The Blame.

No.I will never be understood.Foreign and cryptid.Unholy monster.I'm getting good,At playing the part they gave me.Tired of their misinterpretations,Exhausted with their simplicity.Humans are ugly,Brutish,Callous.I'll bear a thousand insults,And still take the blame.

Grey Neighbourhood Cat.

Should focus on the small things.The grey neighbourhood cat,Rolling on his back -Demanding a quick pet,On the sidewalk as I come home.Having plumbing,Or electricity,After living in trailers in the bush,In my youth.Small things,To quell the injustices,To dull roars,In the back of my mind.

Righting Wrongs.

We mourn our state,As if the answer isn't staring us in the face.Buy up the land,Give it back.Let the ancient stewards reorganize it.And have society transform -Towards sustainability.Reform the vote,Towards ever greater democracy.Build systems once.Build them right.

Puzzle Cipher Hexes \\ Blood Curse Hanging Heavy. // Strawmanned Again. \\ 4-In-1.

Almost to a point of nausea.AD NAUSEAM.Metaphors abound;None will find all the secret riddles,Puzzle ciphers:Allusions woven into flowery speech.References nobody but me,Or the most clever of clever will get.Yet this dry retching stuns me,A round.No matter -How many shadowbox punches,I throw,Just...

Oblivion Games.

Missing the mark by a minuteAs if my one wish I've been wishingFor decadesWill ever come true. . Learned to have zero expectationsNot just low onesCan never be disappointed that way . This world is cruelFull of selfish pricksPrayers unansweredReligions are fake . Oblivion Games....