Accessories To The Crime.

Accessories To The Crime.

You never have to justify to me,Any "reason" for not reading my work.It exists as passive entertainment,Or education,After all.Pieces of me.Harvest Dopamine.For myself.You later readers are all just…Accessories to the crime.Your dopamine has always been,Secondary.Irrelevant to me.

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This World Is Rotten, Rotting Even Still.

This World Is Rotten, Rotting Even Still.

This World Is Rotten,Rotting Even Still.too much with us Yet somehow something from which we are still completely devoid. Liars,Corruption,Evils wrought from stupidity & ignorance.Hate.Fighting for solace? Nah.Just survival.To keep our heads above water. <> < <>< <> Yet...

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Gauche. Simple. Effective.

Gauche. Simple. Effective.

You can't stop me.No matter how hard.No immovable force.Such things never existed,'Ere I wouldn't know -How/Ho the story ends,As if my blunt title blunted my blunt -Metaphors.Ignore the blood trickling,There.I've seen horrors you could only fathom,After a lifetime of nightmares,Induced by the...

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Dead Women.

Dead Women.

How many dead women,Have I known?Poor lady who died.Heart attack,Day after her wedding.Or fourteen,Same as me.Forever.Hung herself downstreet,From the basements I frequented.ODs.How many men?Substance abuse.Self-medication,Eventually leading to lonely suicide.Half a dozen,More,Perhaps.

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4:30 wakeup. 12:18 poem.

4:30 wakeup. 12:18 poem.

Crying alone.Dark room.Familiar.Feeling unsafe,Constant.4:30 wakeup.12:18 poem.Anxiety.Crushed into a white-blue fusion star.Crying silent.Catch a feeling in a poem -Betrayal.Hurt.Frustration.Anger.Disappointment.This:Armor cracks.Rusts.Shatters.Throw it all away.Bucketed Crabs.Disgusting.

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Just Your Casket Talking.

Just Your Casket Talking.

0XOne in many reasons -To take vows of Pacifism:Back in my youth,Talk shit?Get hit.Fists & frothing rage.Back to paleolithics.Rule by power.Don't like someone?Crush them.I refuse.Must be better than my birth,In hunting Peace,When bred for War,By many means.Just your casket talking.

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Mirrors Making Rage,Of A Caged Sage.

Mirrors Making Rage,Of A Caged Sage.

I hate you.Yes.You.With the slack jawed gaze,Glazed face satiations.Strange sensations.Fluff between ears.Grey Matter fats jiggling,In cerebrospinal-fluid baths.Hate you.Just you.Nobody else.Does it anger you?To finally see hatred reflected back?Mirrors Making Rage,Of A Caged Sage.

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Cupped Hands.

Cupped Hands.

One Day,Sit down.As eventual right hands may be.With a counselor.Can tell horror stories,Told her.Struggle to tell them,More often than not.Hiding meaning.Even myself,Perhaps.Hurt washed away:Ribbons -Of Metaphor.Picking up my blood,Cupped hands,Trying to pour it back In:Open wounds.

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“Snakes.” Quoth The World Serpent.

“Snakes.” Quoth The World Serpent.

Pain Continues.Crueler hearts than mine,As I try to keep it.Can never let that Machiavelli out -'Ere I end a world.Misanthrope.Once again.Then evermore.Hungry:Kindness,Perhaps even love.Watch as railway spikes;Pneumatic punched,Through my open palms."Snakes."Quoth The World Serpent.

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Eye To Eye.

Eye To Eye.

Five Thirty AM.Tossing.Turning.Unable to sleep.6am wakeup following.Hurt.Again.Lots claim to be my friends,When it suits them.But at this point I'm always ready,For the feeling of a knife,Sinking into my back.They never have the common courtesy,To stab me through my ribs.Eye to Eye.You Come At...

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Dirty Note In A Greasy Knuckle Gutter.

Dirty Note In A Greasy Knuckle Gutter.

“Nobody wants me anyways. Decade ago, might be self-pity. Now it's just ever deepening disappointment with Humans being shitty as norm, & resolve to just keep on keepin' on regardless of constant shit talk, or ad hominem attacks + strawmanning. Just gonna be me even if nobody wants me. I want...

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Goodnight: Void. NumberAshenStrawMouth

Goodnight: Void. NumberAshenStrawMouth

Goodnight:Void.No one else.None deserve it.One day,Hope hate will stop.Can escape such pettiness,Ugly,For.Good.No more being strawman,Set aflame,Burning again & again.So,Like a Telltale game:"McRAE WILL REMEMBER THIS."Blacklist.Avoid.Move on.No names.Mere ash in my straw mouth.

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“Fry, lechery, fry!”

“Fry, lechery, fry!”

'tis warrant,I suppose -That corruption must be exterminated,Not just with extreme prejudice,But bathing transparent light of honour,Plus honesty.Morals & Values dictating days -Even if us lesser evils,Stand aloof from rest.Always stood aloof,I suppose.Such lewd attractions,Aren't me.

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Placate.

Placate.

Silly little Humans…Running around like worker bees,Superorganisms dedicated to hierarchy.Corporations masquerading as "families."Blind to wage slavery.Lies of working up.As if middle management -Ever rises to board!Lies:To control.Placate.Humans;Mere cattle for production,Or profit.

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Keeping me here.

Keeping me here.

Haunted by my past.Hundred horror hollows,Eroded out inside me.Empty void space;Where a child used to be.Survivalism as apex -Promoted to my own detriments.Now as adult:Wraith.Ghost.World Serpent.Drifting solitary.Haunting alone.My many impossible goals?Only things;Keeping me here.

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Where I spoke to you from beyond a time.

Where I spoke to you from beyond a time.

Do they midnight sonder?Like I Do?Surely some must,Or the bell curves of demographics -Would not have produced me,Capable of such simplicity.Chaos Theory,Does not tolerate my hesitations.Sonder away,Until one of them finds my digital carcass,Pixel skeletons in different fonts,Telling the stories...

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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...

14,000,000,000.

Creatures of Darkness,Love consuming light.Anything to fill our endless abyss.Pitch black voids,Where our hearts used to be.Drinking tall glasses of Liquid Sunshine.Sol?Thank You.As where Humans are short-sighted,Greedy,Selfish,For 14,000,000,000 more years -You'll feed me still.

War Poets.

The war poets,All dead & buried.The clan has already found catharsis.One day,I'll visit Flanders Fields. This war of mine,Is philosophical.Based on prejudices,From a long time ago. The skalds,Are feasting in Valhalla.No time to dawdle,Between this life -& Ragnarok.

“I’ll Never Expect Help Or Kindness, From Anyone.”

If I know already -Can never rely on anyone else…It makes things easier & harder,Simultaneously.Harder,In that it verifies the cruelty,Or callousness of the world.I'll never expect help or kindness,From anyone.Easier:Know what I need to do.Work harder.Use these double edged swords.

My Humanism.

My fault,I guess.Keep putting myself out into the world -Expecting even modicums,Of respect,Or kindness.Clearly I fucked up in the assumption.Puke across my shoes.My Humanism;Looks more foolish by the day.Just cut your losses,Baba.Render Humans Extinct.Least that way the world survives.

Dividing By Zero.

Watch me divide by zero. Annihilation in groupings of infinities. Boiling body fluid at room temperature - ebullism sans a single BAR. Infinity divided by infinity. The thoughts and ideas proliferate for eternity. There is no escape from this oblivion. The one I have always been.

Been There // Done That.

Enlightenment came,Along a hundredfold path.Wreathed in the chaos of madness.Kabuki surrealism.Yet truer than most.Cull me softly,For peace with living,And peace with death.Trespassing madness,Through a lens of my disability.On one palm,A god.On the other,A demon.

Chapstick Secrets.

Billowing crimson,Darkest black lace.Come in the twilight hours,When I'm not expecting you. Throw your arms around my body,Remind me what it is to feel,To be held,To be seen. Rend me bloody,Shreds of self upon the floor.Haul out the demon,Summon the monster within. He who hungers to taste you,Sure...

Disabled.

This blood curse,Pulls at my psyche.Disabled is as disabled does.'Twixt Mood Disorder,And 80 HDs.Clawing at the edges of who I want to become.I must set myself free,Shackling these demons with chains.Strengthen my tethers to my spirits,The ghosts that follow me.I've hungered for dopamine,For a...

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!"

We are not for sale.

We are not for sale.Not the legions nor the few.Not in your prejudice or glory.We are not for sale.Not by millions, nor by hundreds.Not in droves, nor in caskets.We are not for sale.We sell no sex for dollars.Not for pride nor from fear.We are not for sale.So why are we brought down?Why trapped?We...

A Curse Is A Curse Is A Curse.

A thousand realities.Why this one?Chained to truth,Like another curse on the pile.As if I haven't learned to drink,From such things!Power is power.Yet.I refuse to let something like that,Ever control me.Let us play at Atlas,One weight,Responsibility.Another,Greater goods.What,Is your deepest...

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...

Re: Roundhouse Kick.

Re: Roundhouse Kick.L-Stance, Triangle Stance,Whatever the fuck you wanna call it.Lift knee,Pivot back foot,Snap knee out & back.Too slow & sloppy,They'll grab your extended leg,Flip you backwards.Quick.Sharp.Use the shin,Top of the foot,To avoid connecting with your ankle joint.Voila.

Big Shoes.

Nay,Know the bite of whips,& chains.Both sides of the coin,Spinning precariously -Deciding fate.Domination,Is fool's work.Memorizing nerve endings,Has better uses.Tremble.Fall.Give in.You aren't worth the hand prints,Or the bite marks.Tiny hearts,Need big shoes.

Stainless Steel Needles.

Let's be honest.Few'll ever understand us.Digging through mountains of hay -To find a handful of stainless steel needles.Is that worth our time?Delete the dating apps.Focus on yourself.Old wisdoms -About being happy independently,Only adding people to our life,That add to us.Not subtract.