Legends? Bah. Dabblings.

Legends? Bah. Dabblings.

Drink of me at thy wish,Some tawdry allosexual romance -Dosed gluts every few years,As you cannot keep up all at once.Good news:There's one thing I can't beat -"Not In My Lifetime."Means my darling Entropy -Our final kiss.I shall not stop for Death.Nor Rendezvous.Legends?Bah.Dabblings.

read more
You’re trapped right here with me.

You’re trapped right here with me.

Fuck ya do,When you learn at 28 -Nigh simultaneous -You're Non Binary,That you have 4 Other Disabilities,That were hidden from you.Forced to chug coffee,Just to grasp enough executive function,To survive.Choppers in the mist,Overhead.Never trapped right here with you.You're trapped right here with...

read more
Cut it out.

Cut it out.

Hah!What do the young know,Of Romance?In their ignorance;Failing to see hidden glories.Braving Whiteout Blizzard Highways,Pickup.Minivan.Latter better for yoohoo.Multiple Exes!anything for love !!Filthy Scene Kids,Subtracting ladders from pools.You sociopaths.See that shit.Cut it out.

read more
Void?

Void?

Void?Goodnight.Keeping you always close,Night after night.Training subconscious selves,Of thousands -To see the comfort when we know.Car crash epiphanies,That could have been so much worse.In all ends,Void?Shall never wish upon fireflies.Know in all realities:'tis I who saves myself.

read more
Hot pinks, Blacks, Whites & dark greys.

Hot pinks, Blacks, Whites & dark greys.

This to individual.That to band.Others to marching band,Or seven,As backing.Theremin Dronings -I've Witnessed At Art Colleges.Andy Warhol Splatters,I've colour-palette swapped:Hot pinks,Blacks,Whites & dark greys.When you can do anything,Given enough time & effort.Yet shackled by whim.

read more
Only Crooked Moon & Ilk, As Witness.

Only Crooked Moon & Ilk, As Witness.

Sitting in dense humid fog,Close to zero.Smoking one,Writing Poems To The Void.Nothing.My Everything.Maker I Never Wanna Meet -Yet tell The Void Goodnight,Only Crooked Moon & Ilk,As Witness.Not even them,So hidden my Easter Egg Allusions.Ten Walls Of Audiences,Multiversals In Bloom.

read more
King Tide.

King Tide.

King Tide.Bubble of water round the world -Pulled by Skeletal Carcass Of Theia.Rope-a-dope orbitals,Lucky to have her Ghost as shield.Sea of Solitude bears scars.Lakes of Liquid Methane,Hydrocarbon Delights!Everything has to start somewhere.If not here,Why not there?Titan, Europa, Terra,...

read more
Flock Will.

Flock Will.

Carry My Ghosts,As Any Proper Witch Should.Tending Flocks,As They Watch Over Our Shoulder. With All Fae,Our Brutal Truths Damn Us.Some Lords Play At Entendres,I Prefer Holistic Honesty. Try To Keep Myself Honest,Knowing If I Don't,Flock Will.Cold Fingers Trailing Against Neck,Down Spine.

read more
BONUS TIME.

BONUS TIME.

Some Poetry Is Pure Truth.Taken.Redelivered:Neurodivergent?Stats say dead 'fore thirty.Queer?Same same.34,Motherfuckers!BONUS TIME.All bonus time from here.Do I deserve it?Joking about being dead before then.Then turning to ash 24 hours of the day.As others hung themselves around me.

read more
To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:

To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:

As Wordsworth Said:"The World Is Too Much With Us."To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:"You Have No. Fucking. Idea."Okay to feel small.To tackle impossibly enormous goals -In Ten Thousand Tiny Steps,Rather Than Great Leaps.Sing Me Entropy,Same Void I Bid Goodnight,For Evermore.

read more
Bush. Rock. Trees.

Bush. Rock. Trees.

Two Degrees -My GPA Was Always Mostly Dogshit.For Every "A" In 400 Metaphor,Came…"Choices"Course Selection.Dog's Breakfast.Hungry For Ever More,Stranded In Isolations.Heavily Scarred,Yet Seeking New Fields,Disciplines,Interdisciplinary Shangri La.All I Used To Know:Bush.Rock.Trees.

read more
Watching my world now, Provides many puzzles to solve.

Watching my world now, Provides many puzzles to solve.

Geopolitics,Always been interesting to me.Took likings to it as fifth year in first year Geography course.Same time as Egyptian, Middle Eastern Archaeology.Prof almost same age as me.Pretty cute.Learned lots,Which I appreciate even more.Watching my world now,Provides many puzzles to solve.

read more
Across A Thousand Poems.

Across A Thousand Poems.

Nah Mate,Some people have my blood.By which I mean I've sworn them Blood Oaths.They now have the right -To call upon my aid.'til the day I die.Till The Earth,I've already told,Half dozen times,Across A Thousand Poems.What to do with all my pieces.Figure it fuck out.Don't disappoint me.

read more
Change was just the way of ways, Most days.

Change was just the way of ways, Most days.

Things Change.So What?Some of us have never known stability.Change was just the way of ways,Most days.Welcome to our worlds;Full of strife,Trauma,Or pain.Do you understand now?Why we celebrate even our smallest victories?Do you know the enormous adversity it took,For us to get this far?

read more
Goodnight, Void. Void, Goodnight.

Goodnight, Void. Void, Goodnight.

No good reason.Seldom any good answers.Populated Sandboxes,Shouldn't Be Hard To Build.But some things are easy,Just time consuming.Others are instantaneous,& nigh impossible.Goodnight,Void.Void,Goodnight.Symmetry In Mirrored Fashions,Like Racing Game Alterations,For Different Seasons.

read more
Songs That End The World.

Songs That End The World.

Softly Humming.Afraid To Sing Aloud. X Fearful Of Other Humans,The Kind Of Misanthrope,That Reels Away On Approach.Avoids Prying Eyes. O Other Misanthropes wage war,Upon their species.To save ecosystems.Save anything they can. X Humming Aloud.Softly Afraid.Songs That End The World.

read more
Thick As Tar.

Thick As Tar.

The Monk Is Weak.Growing Older.Strength slowly ebbing,& flowing away in rivulets.Tributaries;To swirling whirlpool eddies,Of My Black Ichor Venom.Thick As Tar.Drinking The Monk's Soul,Like Cold, Fresh, Glacier-Runoff Rivers.Couldn't stop The Wyrm.World Serpent.Apocalypse In Slow Motion.

read more

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...

Wielding Intent.

We wield our intent,With the weight of our ancestors.Callous & Cruel.Cackle for a madman -Who holds his,Like a steel pipe.Trickster changelings,From another time.Dead in droves,Ground to pulp -As meat for the machine.Good luck,I profer freely.As a blood cursed fool.

The Brewery Episode 15: “CEDH Special #1.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYrOTRvpKo&t=195s&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker & Jeska, Thrice Reborn vs Grolnok, The Omnivore vs Evelyn, The Covetous vs Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator & Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep15:...

True Names.

True names,Are a source of power -Commonly amongst Fey,Devils,& Demons.I've elected -To forgo a name,On purpose.Matter of protection,Via obfuscation.

Goodnight Void #3475

Goodnight,Void.Monsters,Fighting other monsters.Pretending:We play at war,For nobler causes.Vying for some greater good.Truly hope I am.Such lofty goals,Are all some of us have left.Too much penance,To pay in just one lifetime.Looking for worse evils,To martyr ourselves against.

I AM JORMUNDGANDR.

I am Jormungandr,Clutching my tail in my teeth.Grin and bear the game!Squeeze all the harder.Hourglass grains of sand.I am dying quicker than the rest.I am close friends with death.Screaming into the void.White rabbits, Alice!Follow the white rabbits.Serpents always do.

Idiot Savant.

You know,I've been treated like an idiot,My whole life.Some fucking retard,In the eyes of so many neurotypicals.Maybe that's why I stand so steadfast,These days.Staunch.Glaring.Can you see it written on my face?In my expression?I KNOW MORE THAN YOU.FUCK OFF.

DESTINY AS FARCE

FEED ME INFINITYSO THE HUNGER MAY BE QUENCHEDORANGE COALSWHITE ASHESREADY FOR FOREVERCRAVING FOR MADNESSLOST TWIXT REASONS AND THE FORMERTHIS BLOOD CURSEMY INFINITE HUNGERLEARNED TO LIVE WITH THEMNO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY HURT MESIPHONING MY STRENGTHDISTORTING MY REALITYDESTINY AS FARCE

Midnight Poems.

Midnight poems,For decades.Weeping essences,Shadows & darkness -Seeping from every pore.Know I cannot love,Properly.As distant as I am from my fellow man.Lost in orbit,Silent Observer.Cryptid.The oldest wisdom.Calling across entropy itself,Saying goodnight,To the void,Most midnights.

Oil Paintings Of Old Traumas.

Some poems are long,Because they're ragged tatters,Of spirit.Flickering like flame in wind.Refusing to go out.Needing oxygen to breathe.Holding our breath,Until it hurts.Some poems,Are scars.Oil paintings,Of old traumas.In all their ugly glory.Please,Don't hurt me.

Clout.

Does your follower count,Somehow make you invulnerable to empathy?Whitewash you as a good person?Does having fame,Clout,Make you any better -Than other people on the street?Do legions of fans,Give you the right -To talk down to people?To treat them as beneath you?Fie.

Single Selves, Floating Amidst Madness.

We are single selves,Floating amidst madness.Some more adjusted than others,To gaping insanity.The absurd morbidity.Inane prattling.Surrealist utopias.I am but a bastion in the storm,Sheltering as much as I can.Educating,Uplifting,Making things right.I am folly.A rampant notion of a self,Flailing...

The Tenfold Divinities: THIRD DICTATA.

The Tenfold Divinities;There's sure to be inconsistency:Hallowed Entropy,Yet Solar Futures On The Brain.Clever Girl,Give us a twirl,Then.THIRD DICTATA;Cherish intelligence.Value divergence.Deign.Respect Plus Joy!Demand Our Savant Romances,We Always Dreamed Of.Platonic.Romantic.All.

Damn World Serpent!

And 'ere the siren's call.Trick of the Serpent!Designed to pull in broken hearts,Then mend them with kindness.Released thereafter unto the world.What evil!Such treachery!Thy sacred healing,Wasted on mongrels.Damn World Serpent!Pox!Plague!Rot!

Need, But Don’t Want.

Cryptid,Yes.Wearing human skin,Borrowed temporarily from genetics.Existing beyond gender binaries,'Twixt dimensions of reality,Seething in the darknesses between atoms.Wealth.Clout.I've already boiled them down to power.Means & ends,As usual.Power is something I need,But don't want.

Drinking No Brandy At 12am On A Thursday.

Drinking No Brandy At 12am On A Thursday.Where Old Allusions -Fall flat like soda pop.Scholars don't know I exist,Much less that my existence,Is such!California Sober.As Per The Willie Nelson Song.Old "Salaryman Blues.""Morris Stegosaurus,"Crashed on my couch.Maybe knew old girlfriends.