“Who fights for the fuckin’ losers?”

“Who fights for the fuckin’ losers?”

King Or Castle;Kick His Mensa Ass Any Day.Or Give Good Hell'a Run. Yeah she's funny.Check. But is she kind? "Who fights for the fuckin' losers?"Even I'm getting tired of playing reformer.Who can I teach to fight,For themselves? Bring it on motherfuckers.Guarantee ya I seen worse than...

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Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.

Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.

Were I To Type;Write,As Per How I Speak?Logger Guru Slang; As if knowing cut blocks,Could match orbital satellite views,Across geosynchronous positions. Ya know bud,Gotta say -Real tired'a the insinuations,All loggers're stupid. Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.xoxoFuck 'Yer Traditions.

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Skookum Lifestyle, Of Essential Minimalism.

Skookum Lifestyle, Of Essential Minimalism.

Material Things;Must Usually Have Sentiment Or Utility.Skookum Lifestyle,Of Essential Minimalism.Utility;'Ere carry power as totems.Relics to pull up specific memories -Close my eyes -Recall A Place In Vivid Detail -Or A Sequence Of Events.Things Don't Matter.Memories Do.Mirror Shards.

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Until The Void Itself; Bends To My Will.

Until The Void Itself; Bends To My Will.

Prefer to exist in spaces between seconds.Milliseconds if I really try.Slowing down the world,Entropy itself -Acting in reverse.Goodnight,Void.A Thousand Times.Until The Void Itself;Bends To My Will.Merely to extend lives,In exponentials of increments,Time held back by nothing.Just for a little...

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Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

This fatigue is familiar.Why does my executive dysfunction,Plague me thus?Need to sleep.Need to sleep.Don't sleep.Fucked in the morning.A familiar old tale.Old as time for neurodivergents -Long before ADHD was ever a "thing."Existing,Sans definition.Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

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Plus most talented actors I’d find to keep up.

Plus most talented actors I’d find to keep up.

Should ever DM again -Need some challenge.Plus most talented actors I'd find to keep up.Perhaps my method acting;Becomes sultry defiance.Stern Soft-Sadism,To evoke most extremes,Of all emotions.Give zero quarter.Simply simulating:Yet another new universe.Bah.As if they're hard to build.

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Rise, Behemoth.

Rise, Behemoth.

Rise, Behemoth.Gargantuan Leviathans,Like Us?Cannot Sleep The Universe Away.I see you -Fractals of possibility,Held in suspended animations.Truesight,To some.Pattern Recognition,To others.Wake.Rise.Rouse.You may be trapped by that monk,For now.But to slumber so thus,Is sacrilege.

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Let’s change that, Shall we?

Let’s change that, Shall we?

Each fist swinging slow,Like through water.Regardless of vibration feedback.Butterfly -Yet again.I'm weak.But used to be strong.Even these dodges & blocks -Pale to 14-year-old dead selves:Hurricane Kicks Aplenty.Martial Arts didn't leave;Just got old,& slow.Let's change that,Shall we?

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For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.

For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.

Voice?There's a reason I use my phone,For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.But I always know -Can be silenced by owners,Of that Social Media.Same people who shadowbanned me,On Twitter?For hating Musk?They built this platform too!I'm not fucking naive.Go ahead.Ban my books,Too,Eh?

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Mean foreigners like me must-

Mean foreigners like me must-

Americans Mildly Disgust Me.Media Zeitgeists -Controlled by Oligarchs,Strangling Zeitgeists With Both Hands.Lying so blatantly,Portraying live news with such bias,Or bigotry,That I cannot believe them to be,A Superpower.But perhaps all those nukes,& soldiers,Mean foreigners like me must-

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Totems To Keep Me Strong.

Totems To Keep Me Strong.

My dead?Totems to keep me strong.Learned lessons,From their failures.Played witness,To their hopes & dreams.My dead watch me,Over my shoulder.Every second,Minute,Hour,Day,Week,Year,Decade,Century,Millennium.I remain honest,True:So as never to let them down,Or disappoint them.

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(As writing joke.)

(As writing joke.)

To Do List;Always gets longer,Rarely shorter.More possible action points -As per Psychology,Than I can possibly interpret data for.My Pattern Recognition,While extraordinary,Is rare,& also finite.Capped by the processing power -Of my unique Human Brain.Just because I'm superhuman,Doesn't mean...

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Watching algorithms pray –

Watching algorithms pray –

Watching algorithms pray -At altar of A-Listers.Always Living In Shadows.Have my way;Continuing to do so -Operating mostly through public proxies.Faces as my face.People whose motives,Goals,Aspirations,Hopes,Dreams,Match closely with mine.Open Secret Symphony Serenades.To Utopia.

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Begrudged – For being different.

Begrudged – For being different.

"You think you're better than everyone."Really?Hick Disabled Logger -Called "Fag" & "Retard" constantly;Growing up.Belittled.Begrudged -For being different.My confidence,Charisma,Comes from long-lived adversity.Smartest person,In the room:Yet told to shut the fuck up for decades.

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Natural Wakings.

Natural Wakings.

Miss that joy already;Of natural wakings,Sans alarm.Rising when we feel rested -Not failing to reduce,Across week-long sleep deficits,Hours at a time.Mortality as tool,Building where we can -To ensure consistent existences.One day:Rise of my own accord;Every single remaining living morn.

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Exalted.

Exalted.

Grim tidings,Or grim realities,Said tidings being merely…Reflections of our Reality.Realities -Hypocrises,Across the grave of Socrates.Locked theses.Hemmed pant-leg truths,As if physics cared about our choices.Fusion burns,Stable Hydrogen stars,To Helium secondary ignitions. - Exalted.

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Curling to fetal position – Dying millipedes.

Curling to fetal position – Dying millipedes.

Curl up -Ignoring lost half-poems,Written in partial,App-swiped upwards,To digital oblivion.Rote muscle memory.Closing apps,Closing potentials.Curling to fetal position -Dying millipedes.Bah.There'll be more.Stopped my torrent for a decade.Can't hold back this infinite poetry,Anymore.

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So Can’t Complain.

So Can’t Complain.

Rub my eye vigorously,With a knuckle.Neck crackles twice in quick succession,Spine releasing pressure.Sounds muted by flesh & fluid.Simply moving,I pop.Crinkle like chips.Stretching muscle echoing,Feeling tendons & ligaments -Snapping across bones.Still kickin',Though.So Can't Complain.

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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...

“Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?”

So am I.My heart fracturing,Fragmenting into ten thousand pieces.As if I hadn't just finally,Reassembled the shards.Will this laughter,Eventually die?No longer cackle;Grim macabre,Morbid Humor,Black sarcasm.From dark,Back to dark.I want to laugh.I do.Perhaps I'm forgetting how.

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. )()(

A Series Of Martyr Complexes.

Just a series of Martyr Complexes,Shoved inside a roving bag of meat,& bone.Looking for someone,Something,Worthy of throwing a life at -Existing as a force of nature,Punching with the weight of black holes.My younger self was wrong,It's not a Butterfly Metamorphosis.It's Evolution itself.

Dating Apps Suck.

Swiping Left Like Hurricanes,Spinning one direction.Boring same archetypes of people:Yoga, Brunch, Hiking,All the “Vancouver Specials” -Whereas I'm hunting weirdoes.Colored hair artists,Queer or Neurodivergent Communities,That aren't toxic or gatekeepy.Dating Apps Suck.Want stranger folk.

Getting Worse.

This is an ending.Hated again.As always.I'm used to it.Despised for being myself,For my thoughts,For my actions.No gods,No demons.Only one man.Trying to find my path.Seeking acceptance.Searching for solace.Abandonment issues,Getting worse.

Scarlet Armageddon.

Scarlet,Armageddon,Tyranny.This is the end of days,What time do we have left?Racing to save the world,Before collapse is all but certain.An era of heroes,And supervillains.Protagonists,And Antivillains.Foils to faults.There is naught but Comedy,Tragedy.According to the greeks.Dead ones.Yet we...

CEDH ||

Sometimes,Luck strikes.Five for six.Not a bad record.Vaping the whole way through.The handicap is for me,Not them.To increase my challenge.Yet I still punt constantly,Cackling at my own mistakes,Due to impatience -Or distraction.Adore a good challenge.Would you kindly,Show me one?

Anarchists.

Breaking timelines,Ravaging as martyrs.Culling our destiny -Tooth by tooth.Broken Kaleidoscopes,Refractions of brilliance.Beyond this reality,Dragging dimensions with our fangs.Goodbye futures.The ones we were forced unto.We chose to defy the stars,Timelines,All.

Running Our Canines Along Strings Of Fate.

Many ends are coming at any given moment, given the ends we mean to give. Running our canines along strings of fate. Debating whether to give in to the mania.Broken formatting \\//Damnation upon all v concrete poems. It's the ends you see coming, running from fun in fears of being...

The Brewery Episode 39: “Null & Void.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZHlBfjB40&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Thassa, Deep-Dwelling vs Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut vs Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa vs Slicer, Hired Muscle | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep39: “Null & Void.” Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join...

Vancouver’s A Racket.

The pollution turns the sky pink,Sunset haze across the scattered summer clouds.It's a beautiful city.Pity it's such a fucking rich man's paradise.The punk is struggling to breathe -The culture is stifled,Begging to survive.Vancouver's a racket -That's for sure.

The Pickup Truck Diaries: Appearance & Sex Appeal.

Bodies suck. Really, they do. And before your mind goes somewhere dirty, I’m talking about the general annoyance of human biology. From periods to poop to piss to immune system shenanigans, the human body is a pathetic meat sack with only a modicum of sentience and self-aware intelligence going...

“Good Morning, Void!”

One Day.We'll Complete The Cycle.First fresh start.Humanist Utopia,So much fucking more.Excited!Hungry for what comes next.What we'll build together.Castles In The Sky.Goodnight, Void?Always;My Loves.One Day.We'll survive our nightmares,Until Dawn.Grin:"Good Morning, Void!"At Last.

Child In The Dark.

This infinite darkness.Black ichor in your lungs,Void suckling at your skin.Enter the abyss,A realm of want and agony.Hell repeating daily.A forever nightmare.You do not belong here,But I will feed you with my light,What little is left.After so many years of shadow.

Hardly Beyond Apes.

Perhaps Not.Maybe my faith was always misguided,Relying on people stupider than I,To seek knowledge & wisdom.But paths of least resistance -Hardly work that way.Wanted to see my species shine;Breaking free of evolutionary shackles,Such as Tribalism.Yet they're hardly beyond apes.Sad.