Harsh & Jarring Noises.

Harsh & Jarring Noises.

Still.Waiting.Still.Water.Still.Fighting. Still. Movement; Sporadic fits or starts -Flailing struggle; Against physics -Infinite Hunger; Roiling in my guts -Endless darkness; My cocoon ready to - Still.Hungry.Still.Wary.Still.Ugly.Still -A Beautiful Sadness. Still.Still.Still.

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1670kph.

1670kph.

World Keeps Spinning,I Keep Running To Keep Up.Spin speed of 1670kph.Pity Humans max out @ 13kph.I'm no Usain Bolt.Just a raggedy old ex-logger,Long since migrated outta bush,& mountains, save to play.Still.Those I must shield -Have no time for immovable objects;Only an unstoppable force.

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Goodnight Void #||

Goodnight Void #||

Herald,But lounging.Harbinger Of The End;But all that's left to do is wait.Pity A World Serpent,Please Void,Dearest?Armageddon.Apocalypse.Catastrophe.Let me face it all,Head on.Problems In Need Of Solutions:Species To Play Meat Shield For.Pity They'll Never Know.Goodnight,Void. ||

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Forgive me.My impetus via impetuousness.Sins I carry,Carved into my heart,Where I sealed it back whole -With black ichor tar.World Serpent Venom.I,Drink it straight.Witch;Weaving Hallucinations Via Purest Fiction.Petty little minds as playthings,Regarded by an old crone.Ancient.Old enough to know...

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Anarchy Praxis:

Anarchy Praxis:

My first name,Means "Old Lady" in slavic.Choice as queer joke,But now insinuating defiance.Promise to stand for women's rights,This broken AMAB body -Still has some life in it still!Anarchy Praxis:Ensure my sisters never -NEVER have their rights taken from them.Good hill to die on;That!

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Nails & cartilage boiled down to glue!

Nails & cartilage boiled down to glue!

Witchcraft!Nah.Mere utility.Know value in my bones,Wealth in biomass.Tendons & Sinew used to weave;Or flesh tanned to leather,Tattoo as new art installation upon thy wall!Muscle as meat,Bones as bone meal fertilizer.Hair as wigs for cancer patients,Nails & cartilage boiled down to glue!

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Old old old.

Old old old.

Old old old.Young young young.Wisdom growth like a tumor,Until the knowledge & learning -Splits my sinuses,Pouring from the face like a nosebleed.But loss is gain,In knowing.Using it to paint concrete,For sporting lines.Let's play a game!I've already expended the resources,After all!

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One Ritual Was Special.

One Ritual Was Special.

As A Secular Witch;One Ritual Was Special.Burning old heirlooms:From childhood self-portraits,To hand-me-down dressers.Bonfire of all my history.Kill my dead selves?Already done.That bonfire of self,Was to settle my ghosts -Add the dead little boy I was,To my flock of tethered hauntings.

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“Tar Pits” Resilient.

“Tar Pits” Resilient.

Something as easy as words,Coming as torrent from wellspring.Groundwater contaminations,Of riotous black tar ichor,Rising from La Brea."Tar Pits" resilient.Sawdust cleaning crews,Stemming carbons with carbon.Dead organics with dead organics.But I can still burn it all,For fuel,Heat,Life.

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Mobility In Obscurity.

Mobility In Obscurity.

Nobody knows who I am?Good!I'd prefer to remain underground,Indie all-while!Style & wiles,Pile Bunkers Riled!I'm an open secret -Obscured from a majority,Operating at periphery,Listening incessantly,Being,Bringing,Philosophy.Nobody knows who I am?Good!More mobility in obscurity.Shh!

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Tough Mudder.

Tough Mudder.

Crawl with forearms,Dragging legs as dead weight.Tough Mudder,Or simple existences in the bush.Wheelchair user reality -As if swimming without a flutter kick,Is something to be mocked!My body is moving.Good enough!My brain is swirling.Good enough!We must strive:Even when disadvantaged.

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Tough Mudder.

Tough Mudder.

Crawl with forearms,Dragging legs as dead weight.Tough Mudder,Or simple existences in the bush.Wheelchair user reality -As if swimming without a flutter kick,Is something to be mocked!My body is moving.Good enough!My brain is swirling.Good enough!We must strive:Even when disadvantaged.

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Meat Shield!

Meat Shield!

Games As Escape;Yet this Game Theory persists.Knowing who will push,Who might shove,Those who would murder me & my kin.My blood is used to the floor,Splattered -Dripping across concrete.Yet,My husk can make more blood,When you spill it.Stand when you shove.Rise when I fall.Meat Shield!

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Guess living 5x the normal speed, Catches up with us, eh?

Guess living 5x the normal speed, Catches up with us, eh?

Aching lower back.White beard hairs in excess.Guess living 5x the normal speed,Catches up with us, eh?ADHD Oblivions!Snaps & pops,When I move from stationary.Thousands of excavator hours,The Snowboard or Mountain Bike crashes,Certainly didn't help.Hitch in the knee.Old;But still feisty!

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Talking To Ghosts.

Talking To Ghosts.

This Era Was Unexpected -Remembrance Day Assemblies,Or placing Poppies -Upon My Grandparents' Graves.Talking To Ghosts.Him?Killed Nazis across Holland.PTSD.Trauma.Alcoholism.Abuse.Yet…He stood against Fascist tyranny!Century later,Will I have to do same?What of my Pacifist Vows?…

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Not Yet.

Not Yet.

Hope isn't lost.Not yet.While I've two fists,Two open palms,Enlightenment Via Madness.This is our world -Neurodivergent forces,Fighting just to exist!Why else would we never surrender?Battling Fascists & Neo-Nazis,With Education & Knowledge,Grit & Morality,Forever.Keep it up,Siblings!

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Second Greatest Poet? Who gives a shit.

Second Greatest Poet? Who gives a shit.

History Is Hard.Reality Harsh.Grandfather fought Nazis,WW2.Am I going to have to fight Fascists -In my era?I refuse as Anarchist Punk.I cannot lie down as they steal others' rights."Feeling That Vertigo Right Now."Old Man Stewart,Beleaguered as ever.Second Greatest Poet?Who gives a shit.

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My History Degree Tells Me:

My History Degree Tells Me:

Sorry,If you're a fascist,Or support fascists,I hate your guts.My History Degree tells me:People like you,Are the reason Hitler rose to power in 1933.I refuse to allow complicity in horror,Authoritarianism,Or attacks on minorities.If you voted for Trump,Or Poilievre,FUCK RIGHT OFF.

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Preach Ignorance As Excuse.

Preach Ignorance As Excuse.

If somebody voted for Trump,They don't get to preach ignorance -As excuse anymore.If someone you love votes for Fascism,They don't actually love you.Seeing women:"We're fighting because he voted Trump!"Why the fuck are you dating him,In the first place?Damnation of you,More than even him.

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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...

Decipher Me of Blood and Bone

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,Or whisper to me seas of dry-bone tears,But mention once a viper sting,From soft inheritance of life doth sing,And silent holy of holy...

LFG.

Will you fight with me?Last of the dreamers,Convinced we can still find Utopia.Head down,Teeth bared.I'm tired of getting overlooked,Getting weird looks,Fighting to be free.Treated as an outcast,By a broken society.I need people by my side,With good hearts.Good souls.

As Sun & Moon.

Why is it,That for every good decision made -Seem to self-sabotage.Quickly making a poor decision,Soon enough after a good one!Can't be Karma,Or cosmic balancing.Know those aren't real -After a lifetime of soul searching,Plus a lived reality of suffering.Am I doomed to live;As Sun & Moon?

Evolution Across A Thousand Cuts.

Failure is disappointing;But needed.I've failed ten thousand times,Or more.Walked smoke-filled skies,As ash rains from above.Trudged through deep snow,On summits of mountains.Neither are hyperbole.Failure is growth.Evolution across a thousand cuts.Those who fear it?Often fail to adapt.

Acquisition Log, Reassessment 6.

Hephaestus and X-1 Fabrication team, (But am CC-ing all Department Heads, obviously.) I am writing because we are finding yet another series of design flaws. While normally I'd pass the blame off onto one of your or my lackeys, this time I find it hard to find an easy target for the accusation....

I’m Oblivion.

I'm Oblivion.Perhaps always have been.Creation marred -With eternities of self-destruction.Just another snake.Eating its own tail.We here together,At the edge of annihilation.Take my hand.Lay back.Dangle our legs over the side,Of pitch black nothingness.Together, At least. At least.Naught for...

A Different Hunger.

Let me play grotesquerie,Rolls upon rolls of fat.Endlessly consuming -Often just for dopamine.I've existed at all points,Across spectrums.Athlete,Thin & lean.Obese,Round & slow.Don't need help -I've been collecting wisdoms,For decades.But;Need to find an old resolve.A Different Hunger.

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.

Mkatakes make me human

Mkatakes make me human.Human.Don't wanna be Human,Anymore.Homo Sapiens Sapiens.Stupid.Cruel.Manipulative.Mean.Just so tired.Of pettiness.Smallness.Singularity.Please.As if a throne EVER FUCKING MATTERED.To people like me,Just a fancy chair.Waste,Of resources.Fuck Thrones.

Jumping At Shadows.

Wish I still had weed,To sleep.Perchance to dream.Anxiety medication,On top of same,Prescribed versus not.Might never sleep again -Hearkening back to experiments,In University.Going four,Five days,At most.Jumping at shadows,Flickering across my vision.Hallucinations.Whispers.Worse.

Because Nobody Stood For Me.

They want to cull the weak.I'll stand in their way.The heroes are all dead.Nobody left,But us villains. Why? Why must we protect the weak?Is nobody else willing? Why must we watch the people,Toil and suffer?Beaten down by an establishment -Used as slaves. Sitting alone in the dark,Wondering.How...

The Power Of Place.

Forgetting vocabularies,Of words we used to know.Selves we no longer maintain.Languages learned and forgotten,A dozen times each. People drift away,As they always do.Lone wanderer,It was always your type.Chained to place,Blood curses.Shackled magically to the coast.Free thyself.Pull at these...

First Of Three:

First Of Three:This Blood Curse Writhes.Writes Cacophony,Repeating songs or phrases in my head,Silent,Ad nauseam.Ad infinitum.The Infinite Hunger.Nicknames for Dopamine Deficits,Dearth of Executive Function.Two of Six Symptoms.Genius.Intelligence.Savant at great cost.Too great.Neurodivergence From...

Why Do I Hate Abrahamic Religions?

Why do I hate Abrahamic Religions?Easy:Galileo.Residential Schools.Stonings.Executions.Marrying children.Raping children.Perversions of justice.Bigotry.Corruption.Misogyny.Indoctrination.Hierarchy.Slavery.Gaslighting.Abuse.Genocides.Racism.Murder.Hate.THIS ISN'T A POEM.JUST A LIST OF FACTS.

Evolution.

Aye,Infinite self-reflection.Hallowed Deconstruction of The Self.A thousand mirrors,Inwards -Scoured by logic.Left fallow across the rocks.Culling Rituals.Love.Life.Laughter.There is no weaving,No carved path.Merely raw experiences,Given time,And space,To grow.