“Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?”

“Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?”

So am I.My heart fracturing,Fragmenting into ten thousand pieces.As if I hadn't just finally,Reassembled the shards.Will this laughter,Eventually die?No longer cackle;Grim macabre,Morbid Humor,Black sarcasm.From dark,Back to dark.I want to laugh.I do.Perhaps I'm forgetting how.

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Alone Like Nikola.

Alone Like Nikola.

But that's my fate,Perhaps.To be alone like Nikola,Until I die.Nobody wants me.Nobody needs me.So I remain the Hermit.Avoiding other Humans,Out of disgust with their ignorance,Or bigotry.Never shit talk others in private,But fucking hell do I get shit talked about,Like it's going out of style.

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“Equality.”

“Equality.”

What a piece of shit.Holding my opinions & values -Equal to those,Of my shitty, chronic liar kin.My six years of university?Equal to some right wing conspiracy,Spewed by an idiot.My two degrees,Decade of teaching experience?Ignored.Somehow -Hypocrisy.Ignorance.Thrives.

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Goodnight, Void #308

Goodnight, Void #308

Goodnight,Void.Never been as angry,As this past few years.Seeing people finally for who they are.Ugly bigots.Wretched kin,Who spread lies with nary a fact check.Who hate people like me.Perhaps that.Deepest betrayal.Family.Stabbing me through the holes in my ribcage,Until I've no blood left to bleed.

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Afraid To Love.

Afraid To Love.

I'm afraid to love.Sure of the hurt that will come,Certain of the loneliness that persists.Trying to heal what is broken,After it has been shattered across the floor,However many times before.Such love is deep,Echoing the infinite depths like whalesong.Yet fragile,Still.

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For Whom Truth & Fact Are Divinities.

For Whom Truth & Fact Are Divinities.

For someone like me?For whom truth & fact are divinities?Lies are worse than poison.Those who spew false propaganda -Are dishonourable curs.Ignorant cowards,Too stupid to bother looking for truth.The exact disease,Plaguing our species.Leading us to extinction.Fuck these right wing idiots.

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I’ll Disown Them Fucking All.

I’ll Disown Them Fucking All.

Speaking to The Void,Just to cement resolve.As of now:Refuse to talk politics with family,Ever again.My knowledge treated as dogshit,As they do the same shitty garbage forever more.Believing in,Voting for conservatives,No matter what.Lying.Shifting goal posts.Me,Forced to "prove it."Never them.

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Right Wing Political Supporters:

Right Wing Political Supporters:

Right Wing Political Supporters:Step one;Be naturally stupid & easily led,Usually tricked via one's ignorance,Bigotry,Or arrogance.Abuse either their inability to think critically,Or their apathy & sloth,To never verify what they're told.Step Two;Fall for populist politics,Repeat...

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“He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.”

“He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.”

Such slander was a norm.Fighting:Morals,Mine Vs. Theirs.Playing Imperative:My myths & legends,Always skewed evil.Leaned into the bit.Neurodivergent Life.Heard it all to my face:Retard.Gay.Fag.Gossip & rumors follow my wake,In this Universe.So I only speak truth;Detesting their lies.

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Modern Slavery By Another Name. // Oligarch Cabals.

Modern Slavery By Another Name. // Oligarch Cabals.

Whelp.What else can we do?Individuals,Fighting for our futures.Any other than this one!Billions of people -All struggling against the yoke,Of wage slavery capitalism.Modern slavery by another name,Of course.As oligarch cabals;Dictate everything about our lives.Money "talking," still.

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Where Falsehood & Lying Is Normalized.

Where Falsehood & Lying Is Normalized.

Those Who Believe Everything,At Face Value,Are already lost.Somehow lacking a critical thinking lens,To observe things from all angles.Close.Distant.Near.Far.If only those of us,Who refuse to speak lies,Weren't doomed!Wading through a society -Where falsehood & lying is normalized.Ew.

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Don’t Want Your Money.

Don’t Want Your Money.

Nah.Fuck Capitalism.Starving Artist as I am,Or not.I'll never sell you something,With enthusiasm.Despise shills & shilling with a passion.Myself or others.All kinds.I make my art for my own dopamine.People can take it or leave it as they want.Autonomy.No coercion.Don't want your money.

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Teaching Those Who Refuse To Learn.

Teaching Those Who Refuse To Learn.

Fools.Cursed in ignorance or dogma,More than not.Is that part of my own curse,In return?To spend eternity amongst them:Correcting misinformation & lies,Teaching those who refuse to learn.Even the clever,Can succumb to ignorance.Wallowing in it like mud,Refusing to grow:Stagnant.Stupid.

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For Gods Who Never Existed.

For Gods Who Never Existed.

Derelict rusted ships along deserted shores.Groaning metal skeletons in the wind.Hundreds of wrecks denoting sacrifices.Fighting blindly to their deaths;For gods who never existed.

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A Different Hunger.

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.

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Divine Decay.

Divine Decay.

Thriving Rot.Divine Decay.Thinking back in millions,To times when trees fell,Yet remained.No fungal dissolvers,To reclaim such biomass.We.Us.Dragging out such old corpses -Flora Plus Fauna,As Coal.Crude.Gas.Prefer decomposition,To becoming a future source of fuel.Rotting,Even now.

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My Husk. My Home. My Prison.

My Husk. My Home. My Prison.

Wretched hive of flesh & bone.Cellular makeups -Trapping us in these frail mortal shells.Carapaces to wear as carcinisations.No armor made of Metaphor,Can deny genetics,Or flailing alleles.My husk.My home.My prison.Trapped behind these grey eyes,In this slowly aging body,Until my death.

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A Lack Of Fear.

A Lack Of Fear.

Valor?No.Not courage or bravery,In excess.Rather;A Lack Of Fear.Grim confidence,Underlit with dark conviction.Malice crushed in my fists,To ensure cold calculation,Clean.Lacking any self-preservation instincts:Ready for my own slaughter -If it means I take my enemies down with me.

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Dreams Of Kepler.

Dreams Of Kepler.

To placate my ghosts,Lovely flock,I do haunt my homeworld.Familiar orbits.Dreams of Kepler.Perfect ranges for carbon based life.Foolish Necromancers,Play corpses & spirits.Me?Dark Arts powered -By every single death on Earth,That has ever happened.Wielding extinction events as diesel.

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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...

No Man of Grace.

I'm no man of grace.Nor one with a squeaky clean past.Ghetto redneck,Learned,Via the school of hard knocks.First time I ever smoked weed,It was laced with crystal meth.How they hooked kids.Still do.First blowjob was in a pair,Of cutoff jean shorts.Stupid as shit.In a truth or dare circle.Weirder...

Inviting The Entire Universe To A Fist Fight.

Can I please catch a break?Knew fighting destiny,To be free of fate,Was inviting the entire universe -To a fist fight.But I remain stubbornly human.Try as I might to become more.Wearing my cryptid skin,As a petty mask.Tattered disguise.I'm tired,Boss.Superhuman or not.I'm tired.

Communities Of Choice.

Anarchy,To me,Is like Monkhood is to others.Framework upon;Or within,Many different hierarchies.Fighting for Justice?Helping the downtrodden?Sticking up for underdogs?Why shouldn't I bake that into values?Autonomy!Individualism.Independence.Communities of Choice.I'll fight for that.

You Were Supposed To Be Better Than This.

Fight your demons,Knave.You're better than this.Succumbing to the infinite want.A hunger beyond comprehension.You were supposed to be better than this,Someone capable of holding it back.Fighting against exponentials.The stoic has fallen.Your inner monk,Lies in ruins.

Cosmic Birth Lottery.

Do you become your illness?Or do our deformities unmake us?Evaporating hopes,At the vaunted successes of good luck.What cosmic birth lottery,Do I have to burn down -To ensure no one ever lives my life,In duplicate?Atlas shrugged.I'll kick the shit out of him.Sisyphus too.Prometheus,Though…I demand...

Act Like It.

Feeling Power,In Moments Of Weakness.A True Witch,Learns the strengths in suffering.Long way round.When you're hurting -Be it anguish or agony,However you sacrifice enough,It feeds us back in exponentials,Every single possible vector -Mapped on solar scales.You're strong.Act like it.

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...

Downhill.

The glacier winds howling,Pulling at your ancient gear.Carving through the trees,In the bowl.The gentle drifting of snow,Down into the hot tub.Slush and mud,Gravel and salt.Biking ourselves muddied,Across entire valleys -Just for a run or two.Shirtless and arrogant.

Reductionist.

We become reductionist.Desecrating our hallowed divinities,For simpler existences.Consecrating the Empirical Method,Primed for war,Like the skalds of old.Wyrm song -The cult in chorus.Shattering reality,After reality,Until there are no universes left,But this one.

FREIGHT TRAIN

The world is my oyster.Plucking it, I soar high into the air like a gull on the winds,Dropping it to break upon the rocks.Ingenuity defeats power.Power defeats ingenuity.I am rolling thunder,The far off rumble of strength,Sending children screaming for cover.Keeper of the old way.That of will and...

Cursed In Blood & Name.

Pity is met with disgust.An ugly wrinkling of the nose.How fucking dare they?I wanted pity as a child,Equating it with love.Or kindness.Now I know better.I don't want anyone's pity.I was cursed,In blood and name.Survived a thousand trials,Still living.How dare you dishonor my struggle?My survival...

The Cult Of The Wyrm |||.

There is no altar,You choose that yourself.Praying in a hundred ways,Whether my spoken spells of yore -Or the equivocal mathematics of the scientific,And empirical methods.Yearn aloud,Ask for what you need.Honor dictates creed,In quiet wisdoms -Shared freely.The Cult of The Wyrm,Honors logic...

“Old Lady.”

Yes.It is decided.I'll take on the name,Used for our Great Grandmother.Jest.Forgotten language.Means many things,Across many instances.One of few universal truths,Held in common Human morphemes.Sacred lexicons.Father to some.Religious to others.Mine,Comedy."Old Lady."Like a witch.

Folks Who Wish Me Dead.

Have family that hates me,& yet stalks me.Folks who wish me dead.Half of western society?Despises me just for being me.Who I am.Am I tired of existing?Sure am!Will I give in to everyone who hates me?No chance.Dragging my broken,Bloodied self,By the forearms,Is nothing new,At all.

The Brewery Episode 10: “Silver Border Special.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFb9dXxrvOU&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Slivdrazi Monstrosity + Sol, Advocate Eternal vs Baron Von Count vs The Cinematic Phoenix vs M'Odo, Gnarled Oracle | MTG Commander | The Brewery Ep10: “Silver Border Special.” Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join...