Most Powerful Role In Fiction; The Fool, The Jester.

Most Powerful Role In Fiction; The Fool, The Jester.

Best part!As skeletons;We grin forever!Propped up in comedies -Or held close for dark power,Exuding from my hollow marrow.Tendons salvaged for weavings -Like the deer tendon 'pon dreamcatcher,I wove,In some nation-led art class.Art Teacher Blues.Jester:Most important there is!No doubt.

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My Skeletal Grins.

My Skeletal Grins.

The Infinite Hunger.Forever.As If I Don't Know Eternity.Preparing More For My Post-Death-Existence,Than this one.Can I have a do-over?Nah?What 'you mean that third 'my eyebrow -Won't grow back?The deep white scars,Slashed across my tattoo -White intersections on black.My Skeletal Grins.Keep Me...

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Quantification Of The Universe!

Quantification Of The Universe!

As if a Witch claiming to become a ghost,Could be believed!Secular means a love of Science -To me.Truth via Empirical Methods.Quantification of the Universe!Learning, Teaching,In equal measure.An infinite reciprocity of knowledge,& wisdom.My ghost?Right here:In these very words.Forever.

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Bones As Objects To Haunt.

Bones As Objects To Haunt.

Skull on display,Hundred years from now.Bones as objects to haunt.Heirlooms to linger within!Carved into dice -Or cleaned,Then hung upon the wall.Tan my flesh.Preserve my brain.Allow me to help others evolve;Long past my mortal lifespan!Reflection.Art.Growth.Learning.Awareness.All.

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Eating Kings & Queens, With Knives & Forks.

Eating Kings & Queens, With Knives & Forks.

Eating Kings & Queens,With Knives & Forks.Canines,Incisors bared.Barred,Borne bearing burdens.I'll stand.Rise,Then Fall.As I devour my tail,Endlessly,Forever.I want to tell you you are beautiful.To her,I want to tell you that I will guard thy child,With my life.Until the day I die.

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New Century. New Millennium.

New Century. New Millennium.

No Kings.No Gods.Only Me.Human Like The Rest.So Human.Like The Rest.Let Us See.See What Happens.When Ants Move Mountains.Or Humans Turn Worlds.to me a dime a dozenNew Century.New Millennium.Watched That Pass,Too.Webs Of Intent.Old Baba's Got Tricks.Though I'm Loathe To Use Them.

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Con Men & Elites.

Con Men & Elites.

Soldier Of Fortune;On the side of Justice.Belly full of hatred,For liars & cheats.Con men & elites.Establishment cronies weaving narratives,That suit them.Lost faith in colonialist governments,Decades ago.Proving themselves wretched,Broken,Hungry for control over our loves,& lives.

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Villain On Villain.

Villain On Villain.

Layaway frays,Vows to fight another day.Stay away -Say we may/might play,Games we hate.States we berate.Corruption worse than ever.Fae dais;Ritual pray,Bray at ways.Grey eyes watching you from afar.Par for course,Star for effort.Will you help me fight evil,Still?Villain on villain?

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On Paying Penances With Kindness & Love:

On Paying Penances With Kindness & Love:

Policing people's taste -As if critics are worth a handful of salt!Shitting on other people,Or their passions!Ugly ego,Disgusting hearts.Damaged people,Broken parts.I'd rather spend time engaging with those -Who make efforts to heal their hurts,Rather than tear others down,To feel mighty.

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Ours.

Ours.

Zeitgeist Is A Living,Malleable,Ever-Changing Thing.Stings of reality,Doses up to lethal.All life -One Guarantee:Finite time & space.My Beloved Death's Head Kisses.Dragging tongues across teeth -Picking dust from between.Trust Franky.Kindness must win.At all costs.This Zeitgeist?Ours.

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When Humanists Win Pyrrhic Victories:

When Humanists Win Pyrrhic Victories:

Tonight convinced me.Humanity still has small shreds,Worth fighting for.Misanthropic Me Be Damned,See?Every time I lose hope.Some sliver of possibility remains.So I promise.I'll stand for them:Those golden hearts,Amongst the chaff.This Titan Strength;Can Perhaps,Ancient,Be Put To Use.

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Divine Me.

Divine Me.

Divine me,If you can.Defying priests & lesser witches,Equally.Stumping fortune tellers,Palm readers,Psychics,Alike.Only will pull from decks with devils -Lifetime 2/2.Is this husk,Mere glamour?An infinitesimal projection,Truer host in orbits.Itself,Mere projection from Boote's Void.Cryptid...

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“’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.”

“’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.”

“’Tis now the very witching time of night,When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes outContagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood,And do such bitter business as the dayWould quake to look on.” 'Ere,I Am A-Witching.A-Witchin’ In Ancient Vernaculars.Hell itself,Queer & foul,Base...

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Knowing Wretched Value, In Persistence.

Knowing Wretched Value, In Persistence.

I'll stand for the weak,When my legs're trembling.Rise from blow after blow -Knowing wretched value,In persistence.Not knowing when to stay dead.Resilience & grit beyond grit.Scars & stripes.Echoes of screams.Maddened lapses into madness.Lapsed maddenings into solace.Enlightenment,There.

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Like Damn Fools.

Like Damn Fools.

Somewhere out there,Are kids lighting fireworks.Having roman candle fights in the streets,Bouncing flares at each other,Off asphalt.Like I used to do as degen teen.Bottlerockets much less accurate -Slightly more bang.Mighty mites,Rattlers,Tampered bombs we made ourselves,Like damn fools.

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Deorbiting Orbital Failures, Of Shed Skins.

Deorbiting Orbital Failures, Of Shed Skins.

Another poem,Half completed,Lost to upswipe.Fragments gone,Never to be seen,Seem,Again.Pieces peeled,Crack free from my bones.Cast down to earth,Serpent scales burning up,Upon reentry.Fizzling out in rainbow fireworks,Across aurora skies.Deorbiting Orbital Failures,Of shed skins.

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I’m Oblivion.

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...

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Together, At Least.

Together, At Least.

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.Alive.

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<Lost At Five Frames A Minute.>

<Lost At Five Frames A Minute.>

Killing Instincts.Us or them.Winner eats loser.(Not you, anymore.)[Merely a dark reflection.]{Of the beasts you used to be.}Hungry.Always hungry.Infinite Hunger.Job to cash.Cash to food.Junk.Booze.Games.(Other distractions,From infinite potentials.)

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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 Monk Prevails.

Deflection,Misdirection,Wiles and ways.These are detestable -To those with transparent hearts.Honor demands truth,Truth begets trust,Everything collapses otherwise.You play by old rules,Savage rules.A shaking of the head,A slitting of the throat.Brutal ends.Games I long ago mastered,Vowed never to...

To All The Dead Kids I Taught.

An unspoken promise.To All The Dead Kids I Taught.I'll fight for tomorrow.Even if you aren't here to see it.Humanism,Tempered by Stoic Amalgamation -Of All The Knowledge & Wisdom,I've gorged upon.If not you;Them.Children Of Men.They deserve hope.A Future.We,Need to give it to them.

My Decrees Of Safe Havens.

Despite my Dark Magic,Secular Witchcraft,Or Ravenous Cryptid Nature. Prefer to hold safe space.Moving with as little presence as possible,At first. When needed in times of crisis,Asserting bellows shatter air.When you're with me, you're safe. My Decrees Of Safe Havens,Sans Violence,Stand.

Always Appreciate A Good Hearted Challenge.

I oft jest,Lest yesterday proves best. Holding onto dreams -I'm praying to come true. I'll claw there myself;Nothing but my demons to guide me. Relying on a damned savant streak alone,Is rather ballsy.But I'd have it no other way.Never forget;I always appreciate a good hearted challenge.

Save Someone Else.

'Tis time for breaking,Between histories or triumphs,Through tragedies,Or the darkest of abyss.Once.Twice.We move in strange ways,Drifting between stoic,Incorporeal.Loving nothing,Everything.But never ourselves.Perhaps that love,Projected outwards?Could one day -Save someone else.

Fibonacci Sequences.

Hold this space.It's sacred.The mind's eye is hallowed,Most holy of holy.Witness divinity in a millisecond,Yet remain still.This golden moment is truth,Golden ratio in spiralling fibonacci sequences.You are only safe here.Hold it at all costs,'Ere lose your serenity.

Orbital Views For Decades.

Fear?No.Rarely.Trauma plus anxiety disorder -Put stop to that.Orbital views,For decades.Gun to my forehead?I'd gesture to pull the trigger.My fight or flight response is broken;To the point I try to numb it out.Self preservation?What's that?Perhaps that's why we wanna martyr ourselves.

Faux Pas? In spades.

Nay.I refuse thy politesse.Faux Pas?In spades.Sick & tired of playing nice -With idiots,Bigots,Or right wing dipshits.Might be a Hermit Guru -But I try my best,To bury my Misanthropy deep.The actions & events of history,Tell me I shouldn't.That the Misanthropy is justified.Who knows.

Mind’s Eye.

Standing upon a sclera,Gazing out at the waves of this iris,Frozen grey.The color of tarnished steel.That infinite black pupil -A black hole,Sans event horizon.Pulling towards the mind's eye.

“How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

Been a few centuries.Your archaic ideas of woodsmen,Are out of date.Logger-talk,Slang dialects unique to my origin.Running twenty-five ton machines,That would terrify you -In thy lack of understanding.Won't repeat their lofty scene.Shall create my own art;& future,For my species.

1730 in ADHD Years.

1730 in ADHD years,Ancient by some metrics -The Brutal Calculus,That hated bell curve. Longer lived than baseline,Death and neurodivergence as statistics.Over 210 in dog years,Blessed with time. Carrying ghosts,Of those I knew.My brothers,Sisters,Who didn't survive.

Hallowed Enemy.

My most hallowed entropy,Your wisdom is finite.Self-devouring systems like capitalism,Worship you most of all.Yet they never even know you.Cold dark.I respect your hunger,For you respect mine.Divine void.Sacred abyss.Fools court you.But I'll beat you.Let us pray.

Them, & Theirs.

We always talk in circles.Hours upon hours of philosophy.We're the abnormal,Here.You wish people acted in good faith.Altruism & mutual aid.Most;Act in shortsighted greed.Selfishness:Them,& theirs.You're foolish enough,To think them redeemable.Look for those,That don't need redemption.

Thank You For Being My Friends. \\ Pet Names.

Pet names,For women loved.Fruit pips,Or cans of beans.Some are funny in hindsight -Otodus Megalodon!Other Nonbinary Fae!Like Me.Perhaps Doomed Unto Femmes,As Per Principles Of Oil & Water?Wrong.Moreso The Laws Of Magnetism.A Frontier Yet To Conquer Wholly.Perhaps Even Then -My Ancient...

Sleep Takes Us Both.

Lay your head across my lap,Worries banished.Enveloped in my aura,Or my witchcraft.Safe from other demons like me.Cryptids in the dark.Here,I am human.Reduced.Mirroring you.Playing pretend,A role that I am very good at.Stroking your hair,As the night grows long,Sleep takes us both.