Legends? Bah. Dabblings.

Legends? Bah. Dabblings.

Drink of me at thy wish,Some tawdry allosexual romance -Dosed gluts every few years,As you cannot keep up all at once.Good news:There's one thing I can't beat -"Not In My Lifetime."Means my darling Entropy -Our final kiss.I shall not stop for Death.Nor Rendezvous.Legends?Bah.Dabblings.

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You’re trapped right here with me.

You’re trapped right here with me.

Fuck ya do,When you learn at 28 -Nigh simultaneous -You're Non Binary,That you have 4 Other Disabilities,That were hidden from you.Forced to chug coffee,Just to grasp enough executive function,To survive.Choppers in the mist,Overhead.Never trapped right here with you.You're trapped right here with...

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Cut it out.

Cut it out.

Hah!What do the young know,Of Romance?In their ignorance;Failing to see hidden glories.Braving Whiteout Blizzard Highways,Pickup.Minivan.Latter better for yoohoo.Multiple Exes!anything for love !!Filthy Scene Kids,Subtracting ladders from pools.You sociopaths.See that shit.Cut it out.

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Void?

Void?

Void?Goodnight.Keeping you always close,Night after night.Training subconscious selves,Of thousands -To see the comfort when we know.Car crash epiphanies,That could have been so much worse.In all ends,Void?Shall never wish upon fireflies.Know in all realities:'tis I who saves myself.

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Hot pinks, Blacks, Whites & dark greys.

Hot pinks, Blacks, Whites & dark greys.

This to individual.That to band.Others to marching band,Or seven,As backing.Theremin Dronings -I've Witnessed At Art Colleges.Andy Warhol Splatters,I've colour-palette swapped:Hot pinks,Blacks,Whites & dark greys.When you can do anything,Given enough time & effort.Yet shackled by whim.

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Only Crooked Moon & Ilk, As Witness.

Only Crooked Moon & Ilk, As Witness.

Sitting in dense humid fog,Close to zero.Smoking one,Writing Poems To The Void.Nothing.My Everything.Maker I Never Wanna Meet -Yet tell The Void Goodnight,Only Crooked Moon & Ilk,As Witness.Not even them,So hidden my Easter Egg Allusions.Ten Walls Of Audiences,Multiversals In Bloom.

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King Tide.

King Tide.

King Tide.Bubble of water round the world -Pulled by Skeletal Carcass Of Theia.Rope-a-dope orbitals,Lucky to have her Ghost as shield.Sea of Solitude bears scars.Lakes of Liquid Methane,Hydrocarbon Delights!Everything has to start somewhere.If not here,Why not there?Titan, Europa, Terra,...

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Flock Will.

Flock Will.

Carry My Ghosts,As Any Proper Witch Should.Tending Flocks,As They Watch Over Our Shoulder. With All Fae,Our Brutal Truths Damn Us.Some Lords Play At Entendres,I Prefer Holistic Honesty. Try To Keep Myself Honest,Knowing If I Don't,Flock Will.Cold Fingers Trailing Against Neck,Down Spine.

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BONUS TIME.

BONUS TIME.

Some Poetry Is Pure Truth.Taken.Redelivered:Neurodivergent?Stats say dead 'fore thirty.Queer?Same same.34,Motherfuckers!BONUS TIME.All bonus time from here.Do I deserve it?Joking about being dead before then.Then turning to ash 24 hours of the day.As others hung themselves around me.

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To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:

To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:

As Wordsworth Said:"The World Is Too Much With Us."To Such Dead Men I Respond With Rugged Smarm:"You Have No. Fucking. Idea."Okay to feel small.To tackle impossibly enormous goals -In Ten Thousand Tiny Steps,Rather Than Great Leaps.Sing Me Entropy,Same Void I Bid Goodnight,For Evermore.

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Bush. Rock. Trees.

Bush. Rock. Trees.

Two Degrees -My GPA Was Always Mostly Dogshit.For Every "A" In 400 Metaphor,Came…"Choices"Course Selection.Dog's Breakfast.Hungry For Ever More,Stranded In Isolations.Heavily Scarred,Yet Seeking New Fields,Disciplines,Interdisciplinary Shangri La.All I Used To Know:Bush.Rock.Trees.

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Watching my world now, Provides many puzzles to solve.

Watching my world now, Provides many puzzles to solve.

Geopolitics,Always been interesting to me.Took likings to it as fifth year in first year Geography course.Same time as Egyptian, Middle Eastern Archaeology.Prof almost same age as me.Pretty cute.Learned lots,Which I appreciate even more.Watching my world now,Provides many puzzles to solve.

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Across A Thousand Poems.

Across A Thousand Poems.

Nah Mate,Some people have my blood.By which I mean I've sworn them Blood Oaths.They now have the right -To call upon my aid.'til the day I die.Till The Earth,I've already told,Half dozen times,Across A Thousand Poems.What to do with all my pieces.Figure it fuck out.Don't disappoint me.

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Change was just the way of ways, Most days.

Change was just the way of ways, Most days.

Things Change.So What?Some of us have never known stability.Change was just the way of ways,Most days.Welcome to our worlds;Full of strife,Trauma,Or pain.Do you understand now?Why we celebrate even our smallest victories?Do you know the enormous adversity it took,For us to get this far?

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Goodnight, Void. Void, Goodnight.

Goodnight, Void. Void, Goodnight.

No good reason.Seldom any good answers.Populated Sandboxes,Shouldn't Be Hard To Build.But some things are easy,Just time consuming.Others are instantaneous,& nigh impossible.Goodnight,Void.Void,Goodnight.Symmetry In Mirrored Fashions,Like Racing Game Alterations,For Different Seasons.

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Songs That End The World.

Songs That End The World.

Softly Humming.Afraid To Sing Aloud. X Fearful Of Other Humans,The Kind Of Misanthrope,That Reels Away On Approach.Avoids Prying Eyes. O Other Misanthropes wage war,Upon their species.To save ecosystems.Save anything they can. X Humming Aloud.Softly Afraid.Songs That End The World.

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Thick As Tar.

Thick As Tar.

The Monk Is Weak.Growing Older.Strength slowly ebbing,& flowing away in rivulets.Tributaries;To swirling whirlpool eddies,Of My Black Ichor Venom.Thick As Tar.Drinking The Monk's Soul,Like Cold, Fresh, Glacier-Runoff Rivers.Couldn't stop The Wyrm.World Serpent.Apocalypse In Slow Motion.

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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...

Dead Art Form. Dead Medium.

Dead Art Form.Dead Medium.Nobody cares!Who gives a fuck?! Dead Art Form.Dead Medium.Why waste time,Letters on paper?You'll die cold & alone like all those,Before you! Dead Art Form.Dead Medium.Machine Learning generates it anyways.False A.I. Promises! Dead Art Form.Dead Medium.See?

Bleeding Into Dreams By Accident.

This aura,Eclipses the planet -Hell,Even the moon.Permeating reality,Breaking apart the quantum fabric -String by string.I often bleed into dreams,By accident.Helping those I meet,In fractions of myself.How odd -A villain visiting dreams,Yet helping the dreamer.

Incrementally.

Feel like I'm losing my mind.Despite being used to moving,At 800mph,There's just too much.Older I get,Slower I get,Even if only incrementally.Juggling this.Juggling that.Because nobody else could ever keep up.Dealt with a lot of stupid people,In my life.They don't make it any easier.

Drinking From Tar Pits.

Pooling at the edges -That familiar black ichor,Thick as tar.Hallucinogenic in doses;Deadly in draughts.Seeping poisons.Dripping malevolence.Evil is,As evil does.Something is twisted -When evil tries to do good,Instead.Hands clasped,Slick with black venom.Praying to nothing,& nobody.

Teething Upon Steel.

Nah,Not some purring pet -Rather a beast of the wilds,Cryptid of the woods.Fae ferality,Feral ferocity.Kill.Eat.Sleep.Repeat.Forever.Some learned ways of Metallurgy,Teething Upon Steel.Heavy,Sturdy,Durable.Bodies made of pneumatics,Pumping Oil,Filtering Diesel,Scything Metal Jaws.

Be Well, Little Shadows.

Live strong,My beautiful shadows.Each looming darkness,A silhouette of our souls.Do you love Entropy,Much as I do?Hallowed Nonexistence.Was hours after a car crash,Found my peace with death.Suicide attempts,Never seemed to do it.Now -I want to burn out bright.Be well,Little shadows.

Willpower.

Willpower,Is an intriguing thing.The levels across a society,Ebbing or flowing.Enough of it can warp reality;Twisting fate itself.Too little makes the mob into cattle,Mere livestock in need of a shepherd.I keep mine chained,To my goals.Festering,Simmering.Roiling against the steel.

This Too Shall Pass.

This too shall pass,This lethargic surrender.When the fury and passion have faded.After all our enemies have broken us.Waiting for golden tomorrows,Fighting for our lives.Our right to exist,To survive.We shall overcome,Defeating our naysayers,Proving ourselves right.

Ouroboros Leading Them Home.

Table is full.Titles seated in circles.Ouroboros -Leading them home.No beginning.No end.Infinity Incarnate -Borne of Infinite Hunger.Infinite Creation.Warlord.Monk.Poet.Witch.Tempering each other;In equilibrium.Exhaling Absolute Zero.Finding ways to stabilize,In Zero Gravity.Walk with me,To the...

Echo.

Nobody has your back.Humans are inherently selfish,When push comes to shove?Expect the knife to sink in slowly,Perched between your shoulderblades.Secret meetings,Closed door ultimatum.Two wrongs seldom make a right.But wrongs in terms of magnitude?Some echo forever.

No More Want.

Do you know what it's like?Infinite hunger?Eternal want?To numb oneself to reality,For a moment of introspection.These fantasies,Are mild reprieves -From the suffering of reality.Perhaps one day,I can be free of it for good.No more hunger.No more want.

Lines In Sand.

We refuse to cull the weak.As if such things were just…Lines in sand.Some;Desperate to cross.Rather than common wisdoms,Of kindness.Protecting our neighbours,From tyranny.Refusal to descend into sociopathy.It has always been the burden of the strong,To protect the weak.Help.Not hurt.

Go Down Swinging.

When faced with superior firepower,Go down swinging.Defy the very stars,Alongside every single pantheon of gods.The Binding of Isaac,Sacrilege.Foul play against innocents.Bear your fangs!Stand tall,Against insurmountable odds.Make sure you are remembered,As legend.

Wild West Fashion \\ Bounty Board.

One day;I'll find talented minds -Via bounties.Wild West Fashion,Exclaiming openly to the world:"I'll pay an open bounty of 'x',For the best example of 'y' I choose!"Art.Philanthropy.More.Enticing with honey,Rather than vinegar.A bounty here!A bounty there!What I want -Made real!

Invisible Wounds.

For what is poetry?Art?But beating soul,Converted to lattice of fabric,Wrapped around metaphysical wounds.To live in metaphor is to ascend Olympus.Bathe in allusion,Thousand universes deep.Create to heal the world,As much as a single poem,Can heal a single aching heart.