Like fucking Human Beings.

Like fucking Human Beings.

Drive-Thru Lady told me I was nice.Lady;You have no idea the abuses I've suffered.There's obvious reasons,I treat service staff -Like fucking Human Beings.Been one myself many times.There's a reason I always tip 15% -When prompted.I hold more solidarity with them,Than any executive.

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Goodnight, Void #1109

Goodnight, Void #1109

Goodnight,Void.Tonight,Not-knit one cryptid -Baskets fulla children's bones.Roaming furry hominid,Traipsing woods & forests,In plaid.Black Moly Grease stained clothes.Nice clothes.Work clothes.No clothes.More clothes.Process.Are ya flirtin' with me right now?Because it's working,Eh?

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Until bittersweet one liners – Guillotine.

Until bittersweet one liners – Guillotine.

Tears;Disgusting snorts.Our fragile selves.Dead Selves we sometimes cradle,Regret for deaths ensued.Cannot revive the dead.Only the living.Such is circles of things.I'm not dead yet.Try as life might,To kill me.Want to drag out my inevitable end,Until bittersweet one liners -Guillotine.

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LestTestFailingsTailingsDigress.

LestTestFailingsTailingsDigress.

Break upon these shores " - ---The Madness Comes & Goes,Like A Wave,, z- slowly pulls me back to -out to Memetic.Infohazard.Cognitohazard. Sweeping Reality Aside.Until It Remains,Becomes Just You & Me. //\// Reckon?Or Reckoning?Wide Eyed Terror.Thrust Upon The Psyche. ... wewithstand...

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Forget everything you knew. Again.

Forget everything you knew. Again.

Forget everything you knew.Again.Forget everything you knew.Again.Pause.Wait out the frozen time for perhaps,A year at most.Forget everything you knew.Again.I'm not who I was.You're not who you were.Different fates,Timelines crossing paths,Only to break effortlessly more.Pause.Again.

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One. Purple. Eight. Symphony.

One. Purple. Eight. Symphony.

Sitting in darkness,Learning lessons as we always do,Until we die.Sometimes same ones ad nauseam,Until we go mad.'Til we fracture.Break apart at our seams.Headphones fall out of the touque,She knit me.Loose & ragged.Intended as a blue sailor's beanie.Turned slouch,Perfect for bald.Going out...

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Fat ‘ol buddha on a bench,

Fat ‘ol buddha on a bench,

Fat 'ol buddha on a bench,Wench Block Patrol,World Conquest Daydream Team -Goals. Holes in one?Fuck finesse -I digress;Take my word son -Wouldn't like my ghosts.Teenage girls & convicts.Loved them wrong all the same shame,Absence there in waiting. Hating is easier,Suppose.Rose.Taming.

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Ones we wept over, As we broke their necks.

Ones we wept over, As we broke their necks.

Remain with me a moment,Old Lady.No.Gotta go.No time for dead selves -When I became nameless.Old scars remain,From old bodies.Old Selves.Ones we wept over,As we broke their necks.Metaphor remains a deadly weapon,But a rather feeble shield.But meat & bone needs no shield.It cannot last.

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Shirley. \\ Surely.

Shirley. \\ Surely.

Sitting on this park bench,In the deep fog.Mixing smoke & ashes -With the mists.This is sadly no dream:But can remain a spell.Headlights in the dark.My orange cherry drinking in the photons.Shirley.This summoning is for you,To resurrect your crass wit.Dry humors.From the Alzheimers -We'll both...

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Note I’ve never said “Greatest.”

Note I’ve never said “Greatest.”

"Prolific."Note I've never said "Greatest."Not Across 4000 Poems."Far as Humans go. Far as I know.""Didn't expect to break Silver - Just 5 Years."Over halfway.Golden Corpse Of Bradburne,Left.Crazy Religious Bastard;Lived Amongst Sufferings Of Leprosy.I pass him,That make me the mad one?

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Steak & Eggs. // Holodomor;

Steak & Eggs. // Holodomor;

Fuck this.Was gonna do stir fry & rice.Instead,In glorious Gluttony:Steak & Eggs.Using meat as meat,Sans fillers.One day I might even be able,To eat a Tomahawk,One every week!Highly doubt it.But maybe!Dare to dream of feast -Instead of our eternal famines.Holodomor;On through.

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Shoving itself down my throat.

Shoving itself down my throat.

More celebrities.More voices to drown out the quiet,With massive audiences,To control Zeitgeist. Been fighting the mainstream,My whole life.But no matter where I go -It doggedly chases me,Shoving itself down my throat. Subculture dreaming.Alternative Existences.Don't want "normal."Ever.

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Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.

Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.

5 Mins Left.Lunch Break Poetry To Save The World.Cartoon Supervillain Witticisms:Some sass,Smarm,Coyness,Crassness,'Cause Supervillains -Aren't supposed to save the world!They conquer it!Cognitive Dissonance Ablaze!Heroes are all dead,Kid.Somebody had to step up.Grudgingly;Or Not.

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“Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.”

“Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.”

Always does.They thought divine rights of kings,Were unassailable in thy time.Mere hundred plus years,Came French Revolution Guillotines.Swore myself to Pacifism,Bard.Knowing far too much of violence.But I see the utilities of a guillotine,In defending against fascists,Like Musk or Trump.

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ADHD Tax:

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...

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Arts Of Soul-Kindling; By Old Hag.

Arts Of Soul-Kindling; By Old Hag.

Arts Of Soul-Kindling;By Old Hag.Some Baba.Nameless Clan Witch;Northern Highland Tribes.Find Ashes.White.Clean.Carbon As Carbon Can Be.Sulphur.Saltpetre,Derived From Literal Shit Farming.Bosch.Mixing Soil To Produce Nitrates.Anarchist Wisdoms,Sans Cookbook.Ammonium Nitrates From Air.

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Goodnight – Voids. #O-Two-ne

Goodnight – Voids. #O-Two-ne

Goodnight -Voids.O-Two-ne,Good Abyss,Deserves Another.Hell Paid Prices -Far Steeper Than I.Preference.Enemies of scale,Of worth,Will be my undoing.Source Of Power.That fatal femme fatale flaw.Cartoon Supervillains,In all their glory.The Infinite Hunger.My Drive.Bottomless Emptiness.

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Nightmares; Until Then.

Nightmares; Until Then.

Lucidity Attempts,Across Dreamscapes,Still resulting in strife.No matter how hard I fight.How many silent mantras I chant.Defeating my nightmares -As project -Remains several decades in dreaming,Across many an aspect.Perhaps simple recitals will work.Maybe one day.Nightmares;Until Then.

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Z-Axis Shenanigans.

Z-Axis Shenanigans.

"The fuck?""Tha mean, 'the fuck?'""Impossible."This Again.Possible Beyond One Scope Or Scale,Does Not Guarantee Victories -Via Other Angles.Z-Axis Shenanigans."Do A Barrel Roll!"On Infinite Loop In Our Heads.Not Enough Games Per Strike Suit Zero.Acceleration & Velocity Vectors,In Excess.

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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...

WHILST MOST ARE PROUD TO BE SHEEP.

Awake.Alone.Anxious.Watching my life crumble around me,Trapped within my insomnia.Haven't craved death like this,In a while.Disgusted with my species,From intolerance,To selfishness,To greed.Everything from religion,To finance,Convincing me at times -The majority of my species,Is so...

Talent.

What is talent,Anyways?Merely practice -And refinement,Given form.Do something long enough -You get good at it.'Tis the grindstone as proverb,The treadmill in circulation.If you want to be good at it,Do it.Again.And again.And again.Until only a master remains.

Cancer.

You cannot define me by labels,Arbitrary signs,Shaped by water.As if I were not wood,And steel.This enigma is sacred,Unsolvable.Astrologies and tarot cards are useless here,No spell can touch me.No curse will overpower this blood curse.No label will stick.

Used Parts.

There was a broken little boy,Once.You can still see pieces of him.There.Here.Rusted.Resilient.We survivors,Killing ourselves -Born anew.How many character assassinations?What number of ego deaths?Murdered my other selves.Stood atop the pile.Used them for parts.

Messages From One’s Subconscious.

Another nightmare,Apocalypse as it happens.Infection spreading -While we race to the top of skyscrapers,To stay ahead of the flood.Why do I try to keep them alive?These denizens of my subconscious?!I'd be a better survivor,Warrior,On my own.Fighting anything & everything.Am I lonely?

“Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.”

Always does.They thought divine rights of kings,Were unassailable in thy time.Mere hundred plus years,Came French Revolution Guillotines.Swore myself to Pacifism,Bard.Knowing far too much of violence.But I see the utilities of a guillotine,In defending against fascists,Like Musk or Trump.

Brutish, Ugly, Short.

Let the hamster wheel spin!Run the rat race.Clambering over bodies,The grind is real.Digging nails into concrete,Dragging furrows.Teeth gritted,Welcome to the apocalypse.Throw sand in the eyes of your peers,TWIST THE KNIFE.Brutish,Ugly,Short.Who could win this?

Simple Devices.

We must become well versed,Dearth of worst curses,Lore drinking thinkers brewing tinctures,Of vice.Suffice.Simple devices,Enticements,Provides ends to means,Stepping lean to fiendish scenes.Comfort forgone longer among.Ten tonne run of this black hole son.Experimenting with style -Trial.

Fuck Astrologies.

There's only you,& me.Two planets,Circling each other in orbits.Fuck astrologies -Give me true witchcraft.Will made manifest upon reality,Power etched in desire,Want,Release.Siphoning the power of black holes,Drinking protons.Fueling spells with blood,Or sacrifice.

Standing Conjunctionary Parallels, To Humanism Or Misanthropy.

Keep Up -Slowpoke.Traded away King's Rock.Still Kinda Shitty.Don't fucking know,Ask My Muses,Death & Life.Standing Conjunctionary Parallels,To Humanism Or Misanthropy.Parabolas Thereafter To Deeper Witchcrafts,So On.So Forth.Occultisms Derived Of Quantitative Truths -Carved Into Memory.

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.

The Softest Dirges.

I am the hungering dark,Seething in the shadows,Roiling in the pitch-black deeps.Sharp teeth.Manic grins.An oblivion that consumes the light,Crafting fractals.Infinite entropy,The purest want,Trickling from the void.I am the fallow field,Empty stomach,Softest dirges.

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.

Someone Always Needs A Monster.

Know enough already,Of cruelty.Show me love.That's what I know little of.So bare bones,In experience.False,At the best of times.Perhaps that's,What mutated me.A first molting,A second.Shedding personality -Identity,Man.Child.Man.Cryptid.These glowing orange embers,Kept alive in the dark,With every...

The Question of Hate.

That golden question.Am I fated for their hate?Or is hatred because of rank,For daring to attempt ascension?To be a fully realized human,Instead of a worthless peon.Do they detest me,Because I wish for independence?Individualism?Shall I be despised for my beliefs?Perhaps I should be hated,Because...