But hey – Least my email still works, Right?

But hey – Least my email still works, Right?

Legacies Of Lived Time:The web hosting,Of the 2nd most prolific poet in history,Is done by her old roomie.Watching them struggle now -Just to change hosting.My site gone to whitescreen oblivions.Millions of words wiped out in days.But hey -Least my email still works,Right?Silver linings!

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Goodnight, Void #2009

Goodnight, Void #2009

Goodnight, Void.May This Winter Rain -Bring Soon Hopeful Blankets Of White.Proof We Can Hope,That It Isn't Too Late.City Shuts Down.Fine By Me.Poems Simply Flow In Endless Soliloquy.You motherfuckers hardly even see -Some fraction of it!Lost Lines.Lost Hearts.Lost Selves.Lost Words.

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Tip Of The //Spear\\ Railgun.

Tip Of The //Spear\\ Railgun.

Pygmalion Complexes Ablaze:Kaio Ken x500.Weaving Might Into Magic.Dragging Alliteration Across Allusion -Nails On Chalkboards. this world is minealways has beenbut its yours tooalways has been Drag you all forwards by one heel,Even if I can't prove anything. Tip Of The //Spear\ Railgun.

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Logger To Legend, Eh Wilde?

Logger To Legend, Eh Wilde?

Triple Ones,In Mornings.When Starting Poetry At Our Ends. Old Wyrm Thrives & Writhes In Glee.Void Cocoon Pulsing Radiowaves,Across The Stars. Love still exists,Even if in us old amab queers -Non Binaries making us well,Thriving in Poetry Dates,& Coffee Chats. Logger To Legend,Eh...

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“Second Most” of jack shit all.

“Second Most” of jack shit all.

Who knows.Maybe a hosting change fucks it all.Only a Google Drive.Full of poems.Thousands Deep.Website a mess of broken code.Left with what I started.Hopes & Dreams.Told to dream real small.Force multipliers;In exponents of around thirty.No proof anymore,"Second Most" of jack shit all.

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This Frenetic Pace.

This Frenetic Pace.

Perhaps Pause,This frenetic pace.Twister Mad,But certainly not manic.Bloody Toes!bloody toesCutting nailbeds down to quick,Shearing away keratin,Dead flesh,Until red pours freely.No-anesthetic self-surgeries:Sessions In Hyperfocus.Precise cuts.'Til big toe spurts blood,Each heartbeat.

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Goodnight, Void #ThreeQuarters.

Goodnight, Void #ThreeQuarters.

Goodnight, Void.References, To Allusions, To Quotations,Poem-Songs. My Body,A Writhing Portfolio. "X" Interwoven in patterns,Ranging so far back. As to become Tapestry. Coming up on 4000,Think.Shakespeare: "3500." (Incorrect.)Bradburne: "6000." (Who Knows.) Goodnight, Void.I Love...

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Ouroboros Bloom.

Ouroboros Bloom.

Faux:Folle;Fou. Vraiment Faux;Jormundgandr.Ragnarok.Ouroboros Bloom. Splitting at seams,Spilling out sides,Sliding snide,Shriving shied.Spiderweb Shining In Moonlight. Tiny Orange Spiders,Living,In My Green-Algae-Growing Pickup's Driver-Side-Mirror,Bugs We Take With Us On Roadtrips.

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Faux: Cheese Grater.

Faux: Cheese Grater.

Faux:Cheese Grater. Asexual Elicitations -Long Before We Ever Knew.Or Is Queerness Always Knowing?Finding out sometime later. No sex -Sake of lust.Demi.Only gift myself to those,Find myself growing to love;Cherish. Faux:Rose Petal Waves.Cherry Blossom Waves. Sowing Calendula,Orange.

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Faux: Tar Pits.

Faux: Tar Pits.

Faux:Tar Pits. Infinite Honeycombs.Infinite Fizzing Lightbulbs,Tungsten Filaments Ablaze. Faux:The Madness Comes & Goes,Like A Wave. I refuse to be carried out to sea. No matter how long I can breast stroke for. Hike? Climbing Mountains,Was always second nature.We did it every...

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Faux: Goodnight, Void.

Faux: Goodnight, Void.

Faux:Goodnight,Void. When existing 'twixt worlds,We exist nowhere. Between,Around,But not occupying space,Like rest of Reality -Universal Spacetime Rent Asunder.Perhaps twisted into shapes.Coleridge;Or Milton -What might you think:"Of Logger Poets Writing More,Than Love,Or Tragedy."

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Sleaziness.

Sleaziness.

Trauma is prolific,When it should be minimal.Support systems -Guardrails removed,Just for show."Look! We're doing something!"Yep.Hiring middle managers,& executive C-Suiters.Never ground-floor-up supports.Same tired purchasing,Of public opinion,Whilst hiding the real scum;Sleaziness.

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MAD FOLK.

MAD FOLK.

Perhaps we need fools,Of a different variety,In excess;MAD FOLK.Those who see cracks & strains,Flaws & collapses inherent,To systems of control.Geopolitical Globalism,Unto Modern Apocalypse.Split between ignorant fools,Voting for tyrants,& crazy fools,Trying to fight those same tyrants.

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Albatross Tattooed Around My Neck.

Albatross Tattooed Around My Neck.

World Ain't Over Yet. Even If This Secular Atheist Witch -Rooted In Modern Science,& Empirical Method,Has To Roam The Globe -For Eons,Albatross Tattooed Around My Neck. I'll still do it. Hermit Gurus,Hiding in the dark,Of the deepest of mountain valleys.Only fools -Seek out my wisdoms.

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Killing Monsters, To Pass The Time.

Killing Monsters, To Pass The Time.

Killing Monsters,To Pass The Time.Collecting Their Parts -To Carve Bones Into Weapons.Endless Cycles -Both In My Dreams,& Waking Life.Fight.Kill.Carve.Repeat.Cathartic,In Some Morbid Way.Macabre Metaphor;Pacifist Plays At Murderer,Through A Digital Lens.Art Combined With Code.

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Eilean Donan, Covered In Corpses.

Eilean Donan, Covered In Corpses.

Bring me back?Never.Refuse to be shackled anywhere.Never had a home.Wanderer In The Rough.Old Lady Clan Witch,Nameless Beyond Ancient,Meaningless Affiliation.Crossed The Sea,Unto Highlands.Eilean Donan,Covered In Corpses.My Ghostly Flock:Pausing To Say Hello.Picts,Caledonians,Aye.

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All Those Bastards, Better Have Lived Well.

All Those Bastards, Better Have Lived Well.

Goodnight Void.Tidal Heating,Spurring Thriving Of Worlds.I'll Miss All This,When I'm Gone.All Those Bastards,Better Have Lived Well.Least In My Absence!Singularity Ain't No Time Soon.Digital Consciousness Is Still A Dream.So Let Entropy Come.I'll Still Rage Against The Dying,Forevermore.

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Forsook My Kin & Kind, To Live In Your World.

Forsook My Kin & Kind, To Live In Your World.

Can that be excuse,To dress casually,Comfortably,rest of my life?Theatre Blacks As Standard,Not hearing of any costuming demands beforehand.No sweaty, gross tickle trunks,Please.All black everything,Shoes Through To Touque.Look,Forsook My Kin & Kind,To Live In Your World.Hate & All.

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Warm Charms Harming No One.

Warm Charms Harming No One.

Nation State Pitches -Experiments In Humanist Utopia;Funded By Fall Of Civilization.Venture Capitalism,With Greedy Shit-Eating Smile.Smirks & Coy Sassy Smarm,Warm Charms Harming No One.Lass;Ain't ego,Just truth."I don't think you can keep up with me."800MPH Blues.1.6;For The Rest Of Us.

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Old Theatre Teacher Habit –

Old Theatre Teacher Habit –

Crimson.Gold.Prefer All Black.Old Theatre Teacher Habit -Used To Teaching The Craft.Fuck Purple,All It Insinuates.Raging Anarchist Against Broken Society:"I'll Fight For The Misfits,'Til you put me inna ground,eh?"Who can I still save?Who already made the blacklist?House Lights,Please.

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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...

Surrealist Madness.

More insane dreams.But at least I managed not to die,Last night.Even if semi truck road trip work,With my old man,Quickly devolved into dimension shifting,Surrealist madness,A la gang wars.Might not be able to use -My lucidity trigger mantra.But at least my obstinance,Toughness,Remains.

Accustomed To Powerlessness.

But -I'm just a single person.Raging against injustice,From my hermitage in pitch black.Dark curses,Mumbled against oligarchs,Mostly old white men -Senile bastards killing futures,Of children.My anger achieves little.Accustomed to powerlessness.So I plot.Plan.Prepare.Here in the dark.

Legacy is a funny thing,

Legacy is a funny thing.Scale is funnier.A local legend,Told in mythologies.Setting enormous stakes in sweet nothings.When I am gone,The whispers will remain.Shrouded in mist,Obscured by fog.Bringing light to other lands.They will speak of me in simple language.I am anything but simple.Mazes of...

Brambles Full Of Barbed Black Thorns, That’ll Hold The Sky Aloft.

Refuse to trace that History.Plucking each seed of doom,From appropriate times or places,Held in loose sleeves.Saving others,By collecting them all for myself.Using but one,To grow black briars,Who climb upwards.Red berries.Brambles full of barbed black thorns,That'll hold the sky aloft.

Poems For An Old Lover #1

"Ghosts and whispers, in my ear,Something borrowed, something dear,A patchwork heart, to you I give,You make it lovely to simply live,A pocket full of hopes and love,A lovestruck kiss from up above."

Math As Poetry.

Let's do math,On becoming the most prolific poet of all time.6000 poems,Via Bradburne.The summit,You must pique to peak.At current rates,There're fifty-two weeks per year.Ten poems a week?Five hundred & twenty a year.Twelve years a victor.Twenty five a week,Cuts that number down to four.

Fortress.

It's not that my fortress is impenetrable,You know.Moreso,We get used to cruelty,As a common way of the world.Queer,Neurodivergent,Artists.Scowled at on the street,For our painted black nails -Othered ways of being.The Uncanny Valley,Always our greatest evil.Other humans,Close behind.

Those We Left Behind.

Survive,If only for those of us,That fought,And bled,And died.So you could be who you needed to be.Reclaiming words,And wisdoms.Heads bowed in silent reverence,For those we left behind.

The Rest Will Come.

I'm no peacemaker.Rather,Thing born of war,Sworn to pacifism.Not to hurt others,Unless defending myself,Or others.Consensual violence,Only.Which paths of peace,Lead to nirvana,Again?Seek no enlightenment.Only the dirt of the Earth,Places to plant roots.The rest will come.Peace is always the...

Trickster’s Spirit.

All toothy grins,Trickster's spirit.Self-awareness through humor,A mocked existence.I remain,Priceless gemstone -Hidden amongst empires of dirt.Wild thing,Turned human.Mortality is a racket,I much prefer the cosmos.Smile,Eh?This morbid fascination,Is endless.

Black Specks Dancing Across Our Vision.

Solitary,By choice.Playing at hermit.Solitude can be both blessing,& curse.Changing as to which,With the winds.Madness lurking,At edge of sight.Black specks,Dancing across our vision.All.Alone.Alone.Again.Who would dare seek out such a guru?Is the wisdom worth it?Which secrets?

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!

& growing,

If communities are toxic,Walk away.Your mental health isn't worth it.Too many angry,Petty,Crabs in a bucket.So many of us,Feeling misanthropic.So disgusted with the other 50%,Of our population.My blacklist,Just keeps growing,& growing,& growing.How about yours?

We Were Beasts In Human Clothing.

We always knew it would be blood,Sweat,Tears.It's how we were trained to see the world.As survivors,Rejects,Outcasts.No wolves inside us,We became these monsters.Devouring other cryptids,For growth.Until we could shake the heavens,Shatter the sun.Obliterate stars.We were beasts in human...

It’s Yours.

You don't understand,Why I pledged my heart & soul,To you.Swore a blood oath,Of fealty.You're one of few,Who has shown me kindness.The world was very lonely,Until I met you.Never had anyone check in on me,During tough times,Before.Only had myself.My legendary resilience.With you?The armor...