Like fucking Human Beings.

Like fucking Human Beings.

Drive-Thru Lady told me I was nice.Lady;You have no idea the abuses I've suffered.There's obvious reasons,I treat service staff -Like fucking Human Beings.Been one myself many times.There's a reason I always tip 15% -When prompted.I hold more solidarity with them,Than any executive.

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Goodnight, Void #1109

Goodnight, Void #1109

Goodnight,Void.Tonight,Not-knit one cryptid -Baskets fulla children's bones.Roaming furry hominid,Traipsing woods & forests,In plaid.Black Moly Grease stained clothes.Nice clothes.Work clothes.No clothes.More clothes.Process.Are ya flirtin' with me right now?Because it's working,Eh?

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Until bittersweet one liners – Guillotine.

Until bittersweet one liners – Guillotine.

Tears;Disgusting snorts.Our fragile selves.Dead Selves we sometimes cradle,Regret for deaths ensued.Cannot revive the dead.Only the living.Such is circles of things.I'm not dead yet.Try as life might,To kill me.Want to drag out my inevitable end,Until bittersweet one liners -Guillotine.

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LestTestFailingsTailingsDigress.

LestTestFailingsTailingsDigress.

Break upon these shores " - ---The Madness Comes & Goes,Like A Wave,, z- slowly pulls me back to -out to Memetic.Infohazard.Cognitohazard. Sweeping Reality Aside.Until It Remains,Becomes Just You & Me. //\// Reckon?Or Reckoning?Wide Eyed Terror.Thrust Upon The Psyche. ... wewithstand...

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Forget everything you knew. Again.

Forget everything you knew. Again.

Forget everything you knew.Again.Forget everything you knew.Again.Pause.Wait out the frozen time for perhaps,A year at most.Forget everything you knew.Again.I'm not who I was.You're not who you were.Different fates,Timelines crossing paths,Only to break effortlessly more.Pause.Again.

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One. Purple. Eight. Symphony.

One. Purple. Eight. Symphony.

Sitting in darkness,Learning lessons as we always do,Until we die.Sometimes same ones ad nauseam,Until we go mad.'Til we fracture.Break apart at our seams.Headphones fall out of the touque,She knit me.Loose & ragged.Intended as a blue sailor's beanie.Turned slouch,Perfect for bald.Going out...

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Fat ‘ol buddha on a bench,

Fat ‘ol buddha on a bench,

Fat 'ol buddha on a bench,Wench Block Patrol,World Conquest Daydream Team -Goals. Holes in one?Fuck finesse -I digress;Take my word son -Wouldn't like my ghosts.Teenage girls & convicts.Loved them wrong all the same shame,Absence there in waiting. Hating is easier,Suppose.Rose.Taming.

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Ones we wept over, As we broke their necks.

Ones we wept over, As we broke their necks.

Remain with me a moment,Old Lady.No.Gotta go.No time for dead selves -When I became nameless.Old scars remain,From old bodies.Old Selves.Ones we wept over,As we broke their necks.Metaphor remains a deadly weapon,But a rather feeble shield.But meat & bone needs no shield.It cannot last.

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Shirley. \\ Surely.

Shirley. \\ Surely.

Sitting on this park bench,In the deep fog.Mixing smoke & ashes -With the mists.This is sadly no dream:But can remain a spell.Headlights in the dark.My orange cherry drinking in the photons.Shirley.This summoning is for you,To resurrect your crass wit.Dry humors.From the Alzheimers -We'll both...

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Note I’ve never said “Greatest.”

Note I’ve never said “Greatest.”

"Prolific."Note I've never said "Greatest."Not Across 4000 Poems."Far as Humans go. Far as I know.""Didn't expect to break Silver - Just 5 Years."Over halfway.Golden Corpse Of Bradburne,Left.Crazy Religious Bastard;Lived Amongst Sufferings Of Leprosy.I pass him,That make me the mad one?

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Steak & Eggs. // Holodomor;

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.

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Shoving itself down my throat.

Shoving itself down my throat.

More celebrities.More voices to drown out the quiet,With massive audiences,To control Zeitgeist. Been fighting the mainstream,My whole life.But no matter where I go -It doggedly chases me,Shoving itself down my throat. Subculture dreaming.Alternative Existences.Don't want "normal."Ever.

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Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.

Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.

5 Mins Left.Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.Cartoon Supervillain Witticisms:Some sass,Smarm,Coyness,Crassness,'Cause Supervillains -Aren't supposed to save the world!They conquer it!Cognitive Dissonance Ablaze!Heroes are all dead,Kid.Somebody had to step up.Grudgingly;Or Not.

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“Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.”

“Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.”

Always does.They thought divine rights of kings,Were unassailable in thy time.Mere hundred plus years,Came French Revolution Guillotines.Swore myself to Pacifism,Bard.Knowing far too much of violence.But I see the utilities of a guillotine,In defending against fascists,Like Musk or Trump.

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ADHD Tax:

ADHD Tax:

Some weeks you get a mix.ADHD Tax:Engine Oil Cap Replacement: $60.Drove away sans replacing it.Wrap, Forgotten On Desk At Home: $15.Taken From Fridge,Left At Room Temperature,Of Course.That's just two, in one week.Yet.Woke up early today,Worked out in the morning for the first time.Workout had...

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Arts Of Soul-Kindling; By Old Hag.

Arts Of Soul-Kindling; By Old Hag.

Arts Of Soul-Kindling;By Old Hag.Some Baba.Nameless Clan Witch;Northern Highland Tribes.Find Ashes.White.Clean.Carbon As Carbon Can Be.Sulphur.Saltpetre,Derived From Literal Shit Farming.Bosch.Mixing Soil To Produce Nitrates.Anarchist Wisdoms,Sans Cookbook.Ammonium Nitrates From Air.

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Goodnight – Voids. #O-Two-ne

Goodnight – Voids. #O-Two-ne

Goodnight -Voids.O-Two-ne,Good Abyss,Deserves Another.Hell Paid Prices -Far Steeper Than I.Preference.Enemies of scale,Of worth,Will be my undoing.Source Of Power.That fatal femme fatale flaw.Cartoon Supervillains,In all their glory.The Infinite Hunger.My Drive.Bottomless Emptiness.

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Nightmares; Until Then.

Nightmares; Until Then.

Lucidity Attempts,Across Dreamscapes,Still resulting in strife.No matter how hard I fight.How many silent mantras I chant.Defeating my nightmares -As project -Remains several decades in dreaming,Across many an aspect.Perhaps simple recitals will work.Maybe one day.Nightmares;Until Then.

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Z-Axis Shenanigans.

Z-Axis Shenanigans.

"The fuck?""Tha mean, 'the fuck?'""Impossible."This Again.Possible Beyond One Scope Or Scale,Does Not Guarantee Victories -Via Other Angles.Z-Axis Shenanigans."Do A Barrel Roll!"On Infinite Loop In Our Heads.Not Enough Games Per Strike Suit Zero.Acceleration & Velocity Vectors,In Excess.

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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...

The Beast In The Reflection.

This elegant goodbye,A piece of soft mourning.We're trapped,Worlds apart.I'm the beast in the reflection.A monster you cannot let out.No matter the cost.'Ere my foul magicks seep,Back into the world.Blood curse boiling,Dark weavings churning.We must exist,At odds.

We Refuse To Die.

Restless wondering.Will I survive,This time?Fighting for my very existence,Yet again.Denied solace,By this cruel world -Reeking of capitalism,The most entropic system there is.Faster unto heat death.I need help,But no one is offering it.Raised not to expect it.No one is coming to save us.We must...

Enigma, Still.

So many people,Pretend they know me.Yet,In this day & age?I've the power of analytics,Aware of every eye,A hundred clicks.Nobody has read my complete works,The truest epitaph,I could ever write.More than two thousand poems,Hundreds of thousands of words.Pretend.Sure.

I’d Have Said Yes.

Lingering there,Threads aflame.Want different things,Yet operate on similar wavelengths.Would this be a few dimensions over,Were we aligned on star-crossed paths.Holding you close,In behemoth arms,Too big for anyone.If you'd asked to stay in my bed,I'd have said yes.

Goodnight, Void #998

Goodnight,Void.Hold my time,In fractal position,Absent space or wormhole.No bending of vision,Beyond Event Horizons of Black Holes.When too much,Falls inwards.What coulda been stars.Void?Not scared of Death,My gracious waiting lover.Not scared of much at all.Maybe that's the problem.

Thy Skeletal Embrace.

Take me,Lover.Thy skeletal embrace.Cold pulling at my lips,Cracking & splitting.Experience ebullism,One PSI at a time.Apparently,I don't need that much oxygen to live.Wild thrusting in the dark.Lightless space.Flailing limbs.Sweaty moans.Silence is a beautiful song.Let me hear it.

I Know Nobody Is Coming To Help Me.

Solemn vows,To peaceful ends.Promised them a better world.Even if I must do it myself,For old promises.Wanted them to know freedom,From this doomed existence.But what can an old pacifist do?I am alone.Having lived a life of strife,I know nobody is coming to help me.

Of Savants & Supercomputers.

'Twas my late twenties,Before counselling helped me see.Witnessing my neurodivergences,For what they truly were.Curses.Each,Many Swords of Damocles.Not superpowers,As once believed.But there is great power,In curses.Applications of magic,Unique to our blends.Science,Helped me see.Dissociation,An...

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.

Epicurean Amusements, Euclidean Truths.

'Ere winds of attrition blow - Across ancient fields. When one has delved deeply enough, Into human experience. War. Hunger. Pain. People as quantitations, Epicurean amusements, Or Euclidean truths. Psyche of a madman, Is still a dangerous place to go - No matter the...

Fuck The Haters.

Fuck the haters,We're slumdogs.Redneck hick fucks -Battered and bruised.Scarred to hell.I can kill a man twelve different ways,With my bare hands.Yet pacifism is my choice.Means you're never allowed,To take the first swing.Because there's never a second,After that.

Dreams From Sunlight.

Let me show you utopia,Darling.Gloaming constellation.Hectic rains of stars.I'll wrestle timelines for you,Wrenching reality into form and purpose.Let me gift you serenity.Joy.Prosperity.Solace.We've worlds to save,Souls to redeem.Let's make our dreams from sunlight.

Gravity Well Welcomes.

Slave,To Infinite Hunger.Born,Blood Curse & all.Gravity Well Welcomes.Black Hole Sons.Crushed beneath our own weight,In far more ways than one.Refusing to surrender,Until our very last breath.If there is one thing I learned,From failing to kill myself?It's that living,Is the harder task.

Mastermind. F. Deltron 3030.

"Watch him. The weird eccentricity is a facade, a feint tactic. Preys on those who underestimate him. Revels in it. Supervillain, soon enough.""Her? She'll play my jester, power unto hands of the pure. The clown in charge of everything.""My left hand. Best student I ever had.""Dave? Retirement!"

Goodnight, Void #2500

Goodnight,Void.At some point -Even us broken machines,Must rest.Grinding onwards,Through Hell -If We Have To.Why?If your fucking gods are real,Why do we always have to?Half fucking deaf,From the roar of diesel engines.Steel homunculus,Of Steel,Plus Flesh.Machine,As Nerves.Goodni- *