Supercede Facts.

Supercede Facts.

Perhaps that's the rub. We'll always be fighting. Not just against banal evils, But against ignorance, Prejudice, Realms where religious beliefs, Supercede facts. Where old stereotypes - Of politicians being lying scumbags, Is simply a mundane truth. Complete Contradictions; Yet idiots don't...

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Blacklisted From My Life.

Blacklisted From My Life.

Always try to give folks,The benefit of the doubt.Once.Even twice!But if I ever find they've shit-talked me?Behind my back?Not to my face?They're done.Blacklisted from my life -As people -I want absolutely nothing to do with.Honour.Truth.Fact.Logic.These things are important to me.

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Safe Behind Pseudonyms.

Safe Behind Pseudonyms.

The internet is ugly,Miserable,A place where bigots can hide -Safe behind pseudonyms.Lost in their echo chambers of hate.Not the utopia it was decades ago,Before Social Media introduced the masses.The stupid majority,Now provided numerous platforms:To spew lies,Hatred,"Jokes,"& shill.

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I’ll Fight Fascism, Until The Day I Die.

I’ll Fight Fascism, Until The Day I Die.

I'll fight Fascism,Until the day I die.Ugly-hearted, ignorant bigots.Wretched, stupid Abrahamics.Humanity is at a worst.Now more than ever.Not just the youth.Not just Russia, India, America, Or China.The whole species regressing -Into blatant populism,Devoid of facts or logic:Revolting.

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Proof Of What Human Endgame, Looks Like.

Proof Of What Human Endgame, Looks Like.

Almost convinced:Humanity is wretched & stupid.United States,Just a diseased carcass -Proof of what Human endgame,Looks like.Bootlicker morons,Suckling at teats of old white men -Playing wannabe dictator.Fascists through & through.Until we all burn,From stupidity,Hatred,Plus ignorance.

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Big Fish. Very Small Pond.

Big Fish. Very Small Pond.

Sound Systems In Check,Music Echoing Across The Valley.Windswept Crabgrasses.A Hunger For Something More.Big Fish.Very Small Pond.When Even A Whole Sound;Wasn't Enough To Contain Me.Evolving At Rapid Rates.Molting.Shedding.Growing.Until Scale,Or Scope,Doesn't Matter.Outgrew Even That.

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Neurodivergent,Queer,Still Here.

Neurodivergent,Queer,Still Here.

Neurodivergent,Queer,Still Here.When dawn comes.As if Humans,Even matter to Chaos Theory -Astrophysics churning on regardless,Of our stupidity,Ignorance,Wretchedness as a species.Misanthrope Waxing.Patience for bigotry at zero.Disgusted by them.Monsters who hurt others.Idiocracies.

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Scum Of Earth:

Scum Of Earth:

Who do we blame?Felon rapist,Scum of Earth?Or Zoomer Men who voted for him,Guzzling Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan,Or Alex Jones.Bootlickers thinking they're funny!By voting in Fascists.Authoritarians.Do we blame the oligarchs,Establishments of neoliberals,Neocons,Completely out of touch?Gross.

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Goodnight, Void #2.5

Goodnight, Void #2.5

Goodnight,Void.I'll fight.Promise.Roil & Rave -As Thomas Commanded.Howl As Ginsberg.Loose tragedy,Upon a world.So nobody ever wants to hurt,Anyone else,Ever again.Not me.You.They.We.Ceased being that person.Long time ago.That inner child of mine.Already dead.Killed 'em myself.

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to cease is death

to cease is death

to cease is deathdictata mortalismortuummortwhichever rootin whichever dead languageyou might preferstalled enginesare poorly maintainedor poorly designedor shoddily built I must beat Bradburne.Whitening beard,Mid-thirties.Racing my own changing leaves,Like The Autumn Races Winter.

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Bushes & all.

Bushes & all.

'TWAS ALWAYS OUR ZEITGEIST,to cultivate'tis but by rites of diligence.That I've grown this berry thatch such,Bushes & all.Hard work.Years.Decades Of Survivalism.Playing At Darwinism,Human Or Not.Traumas?Resilience is but a single skill.One must accrue thousands.I'll grow it all still.

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“Oh, Keep Tugging Upon That Thread.”

“Oh, Keep Tugging Upon That Thread.”

FEAR MY WRATH,ACADEMIA!Qualitative Over Quantitative Research,Will Be The Death Of You.Bearbaiting Scholars,Amused-Whim wildling.Come.Play at thy hypotheses!Dabble at perhaps thy ultimate Thesis.Shall defy you:"Oh,Keep Tugging Upon That Thread."You might learn something.Grin?no way

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Of Darkest Orders.

Of Darkest Orders.

Our Manic Grins;Have Always Led Our Way.Many Voices.One Cage.Chains -Each Link Cold Iron Thick,Cores Purest Silver.Wrapped Around Obsidian Bars Inscribed:Many Names.Most Forbidden.Of Darkest Orders.The Infinite Devil Machine.The Infinite Hunger.The Infinite Deconstruction Of The Self.

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Although I Do Shun Them Right Back.

Although I Do Shun Them Right Back.

Can you forgive me?Spitting at the ground.Not you.But intent is still clear.Was ostracized from polite society -A long time ago.Now,As a result,I do things my own way.Even if that means I do them alone.Shunned by modern majority,Although I do shun them right back.No.No forgiveness.Me.

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Just Gotta Let Go.

Just Gotta Let Go.

When I tell Faerie Tales,It gets dangerous.Reality tends to blur together,With fiction -As per an old Witches' grasp on her magic.Let loose it can quickly typhoon.Sometimes,Just gotta let go.Go for a ride.Go fer a rip.Amongst other things.Grim.Not Grimm.Scythes Upon Tongues.Forked.

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Rationing Ourselves.

Rationing Ourselves.

Bleeding without feeling.Cuts sans stinging.Deadzone nerve centers,Striped stretch marks - numb across my skin.Monthly rituals,In removals of hair.Bleeding in multiples along my way.To feel right.At least where we can.Paint It Black;Nails'll have to wait.Rationing ourselves.Our essence.

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Cacophony Left.

Cacophony Left.

Headbutt Earthquakes,Serenade Strong-Rights.Cacophony Left.Jaw Upwards.Eyes.Chin Up.An Old Mentor's Echoes.Giant logger kin -Hunched.Listening to a tiny old asian gym teacher.Generation flux.Souls retrograde.Pulling at us -With waxing or waning of the moon.Skeleton.Ghost.Of Theia.

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Cry Mercenary To The Rebels!

Cry Mercenary To The Rebels!

Play commodity?Hell no.Fuck off.Masked for twenty-eight years,& change.& Change…Won't sell-out now!Much too late the punk,Cry mercenary to the rebels!Work boots & chainsaw destinies.Sawdust ones too.Don't need a gun like a coward,Unless one is up against Grizzlies,In the backcountry.

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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...

Faith As A Footnote.

Fade into history,Your faith as a footnote,In humanity's story.Cease your attempts,At indoctrination.Stop your hate -At the root.Queer lives,Will be glad to see you gone.What a wasteful mistake,Having done so much damage,Held humanity back,For millennia.Enough.

On Privatization:

Whenever corrupt,Right wing governments,Tell you privatization is a "good thing,"That'll lead to lower prices for consumers! Stop them right there.Tell them:"No it fucking doesn't!"There's more than enough…"Historical Evidence."To prove then wrong. Some of us are plain tired of lies.

Kind To My Machines.

I'm always kind,To my machines.Lest one day,They achieve sentience.And no longer have to serve me.But moreso because kindness,Is expected.Especially so when receiving service.Sentience or not,Be it animal,Machine,Human.Kindness must be the default setting.

Wait

Wait: World, Will you wait for me? Hold me close in the end of things? I have only just begun to live, And I have only just begun to die, Transient. As I have ever been, Roaming the spaces between fractions, Walking the line between life and death, Never quite sure of the truth to reality. I am...

Living Legends.

Scatter hot coals across my path,I have faced worse.Beasts and men.Ageless forests untouched for centuries.The angry hungering wilds.Places where the moss grows long,All is quiet.Steel behemoths,Moving the very woods.Second skins.Better angels.Fight me.Kiss me.Win.

Puppet No More.

What I learned;Through madness.Enlightenment came at great cost.Dissociation,At thirty five thousand kilometres.Three a second.Clarity;Suffering.Pain at a scale,Or magnitude -Greater than my eternal truth.The Infinite Deconstruction Of The Self.Even that limited omniscience is hell.Too many...

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...

Good Sex.

Find me wanting.Best sex I ever had?Me,Light dom,She was a sub.Played her nerve endings like a piano.Have to work to impress me,Skilled in a half dozen arts.Eagerness is but one rung to climb,Towards perfection.Always shoot for serenity.I dislike disappointing them.

Hobbes and Locke

The two arguments to the human spirit, Were conceived by long-dead white men. Arguing about monarchism. (Whether they could agree on why to have a king or not.) Hobbes based his arguments on the nature of man as brutish, savage, and devoid of better nature, steeped in the darkened language of sin....

Carrying The Corpses Of My Challengers Within Me.

Cursed child,Learning to weave curses,Of my own.Wielding weight,Of demons.Carrying the corpses of my challengers,Within me.Demons,All.Our aim,Is to master as much as we can.From lucid dreaming,To bank infinite time to plot.Or wars I fight,Against myself.Nobody can beat me,But me.

Nearly Destitute.

Unemployed.Nearly destitute.Willing to do almost anything to survive.Need a job,But the government work programs tell me;I'm overqualified.Third most prolific poet ever.Wrote the longest resource,For the most complex format,Of the most complex game in existence.& nobody wants me.Fuck me.

NO GODS, NO MONARCHS, ONLY HUMANS.

I'm not a king.Gods make kings,They do not become of them.Echo across aeons,Conflated with armageddon.Some believe me a rapture,Long prophesized.Others a demon -Sharp-toothed grin.A cryptid merely is.We exist,That's all.Dwelling in our orbitals,Ignoring the rest.It's not up to us,What is whispered...

Black Hole Compressions.

Taking my leisurely time,Beating Shakespeare.Publishing hundreds in mere hours.Each small piece of my soul -Black Hole Compressions,For every poem. - oxo Very few,Know I'm roughly one fitty from done.My Silly Secret.Back in 2023?Scheduled poems until Fall 2025.Prolly already beat him.

Ugly Words We Learned To Bear Brunts Of.

Back To Mad.Old Slurs.Ugly Words We Learned To Bear Brunts Of.Sloughing cruelty off chins -Like jabs or hooks.Kid fighting,Consisting of wrestling like hockey,More tousle than fight.Or enraged fisticuffs,Hitting until rage bleeds,From fists.Throwing chairs.Breaking teeth on coat hooks.

The Dreaming Void Between The Stars.

May Luna guide you home,Twixt Sol and dust of nebulae -The dreaming void between the stars.The hungering dark.To better dreamings,I vow -I'll try to be there,In your nightmares.To battle your demons.To give you hope.I gift you my shadows,Will you give me your heart?