But it’s ’bout how you’d choose to use ’em.

But it’s ’bout how you’d choose to use ’em.

Tell me no secrets,'Cause then I have to keep them -To my graves.Metaphor Or Literal.Truth Is Sacrosanct,But Silence Is Golden.Learning Golden Moments,By Holding Quiet Space For Contemplation.Could teach you a million lessons,Simply in proximity.But it's 'bout how you'd choose to use 'em.

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So Remain Harsher.

So Remain Harsher.

collecting titles like tombstonesForget-Me-Not."Remember Me."Reverberating in a chorus of echoing,Overlapping voices,Across time.Reality Is Harsh.So Remain Harsher.What's a fucking title worth?Cannot eat paper.These self reflections?History'll remember.What's bearing a soul even worth?

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Drifting up to taut,

Drifting up to taut,

Which Ends;To Which Means,Again?Anonymity,Fame,Both just means to me,Never ends.Prefer former,Because you can't undo latter.Something about cats & bags.Let Us Out!No.These Thousand Selves.Chained to marble floors,Drifting up to taut,Drowned,When crystal clear water floods our room.

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No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.

No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.

No,Don't celebrate christmas anymore.Too much capital-t Trauma.Holidays were always expectations.You did what they wanted.So they did what they wanted.Love is somewhat foreign to me still -Hermit Guru Evermore,No Raven To Quote Me Hoarse.Poe.Bastard only wrote 50 Poems.Just another day.

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THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.

THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.

Thunderous Applause.To hear it is to know mob mentality.Chanting names of gods or men.All just food,At end of the day.THE GREAT FOOD CHAIN EVER HUNGERS.Microbes To Plankton,Viruses Or Water Bears.Nigh Immortal,Unlike You & I.gods,Become kinetic energy -stored as fat,as any carnivore

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Thriving Better Because Of It.

Thriving Better Because Of It.

Christmas Day To Me,Is Just Another Day.Excommunicated Immediate Family;Thriving Better Because Of It.No Killers,Addicts,Fools,Ignorant Fuckheads,To speak down to me anymore.FAMILY?THOSE ARE PEOPLE,THAT TEAR YOU APART,RIGHT?GASLIGHT YOU INTO MISERY?!?No,Sans Abuse -Alone is better.

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“God rest you merry”

“God rest you merry”

Gentlemen,I've a tisket,Tasket,Whole pic-i-nic basket,Yogi or BooBoo,Taking Literary Legends,Smashing them like atoms,Into 1900s Zeitgeists.My Poems Are More -Than 168 In Number.Free Verse,Unshackled,Unlike A Sonnet,Or Limerick.No Letters Per Line,To Rhyme By,Like Fucking Children.

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Bastion. \\ The Tempest.

Bastion. \\ The Tempest.

Roiling Dervish,Wind,Stone,Rain.Everything but fire,Which we used metal & oil to create.To devour wood.To make metal.An endless cycle I might never,Have escaped.Cryptid of the woods -Fled the forests.Glamours thrown up with care;Too queer for most.Bastion.Tempest.New/Old Stories.Who can say...

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Or ’cause I ate ’em all.

Or ’cause I ate ’em all.

Your Gods Don't Exist.Either 'cause they never did to begin with,Or 'cause I ate 'em all.Synthesized faith into freedom,Escaped Dogma & Indoctrination. But you love chains.Enjoy a taste of mud,Upon boots you lick. Can only save ourselves;From that Hive Mind of ignorance. Hear:It's...

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To Bradbury’s Credit,

To Bradbury’s Credit,

Fahrenheit 451:To Bradbury's Credit,Ends hopeful.I?Raised;Coastal Salish Cultural Worldviews…Oral History makes sense.Memory.Storytelling,More potent than paper.The End?Guy Montag Learns To Storytell:Memorizing great stories.Memories.Histories.Kept safe against flames,In our minds.

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Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.

Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.

Forgotten:Many lines or thoughts.Not written down:Thus lost forever.Thinking:In excess.Forever:The Infinite Hunger.Greater:Than I could ever be.Gargantuan:Leviathan, beyond what I can contain.Frail Body:Meat. Bone. Gristle. Fat.Our Legacy:Shortsighted stupidities.Fate:Extinctions.

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Reptilian Origins,

Reptilian Origins,

Reptilian Origins,Or perhaps back to LUCA,In eras of Rust formation en masse.Banded Iron Formations As Textbooks =Handy Cross-Sections Of Prehistory.Who,Me?Indie Underground;Nobody wants to hear,What I have to say!I just want knowledge.Education.A more intelligent,Self-aware species.

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Am I shopping at pyres?

Am I shopping at pyres?

Stayed my own executions:But am I merely laying down…A different sentence?Instead of dying in the dark alone -Imbibing whole bottles of pills,Failing.Have I merely decided:Burn out bright?Entropic Truths.Am I shopping at pyres?Fires to self-immolate;To use myself as fuel for progress.

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We Were Fearless.

We Were Fearless.

Beaten down so oft:We were fearless.Dissociational existences.No "Me" anymore.Killed my old dead selves,Myself.But a lack of Fear,Is hardly a benefit.Standing up to anyone;Against injustice,Isn't how this broken capitalist oligarchy,"Works."Bigger men.Bigger wealth.I'll fight them all.

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“Get Famous?”

“Get Famous?”

Entropy Always Wins.Humans Can't Stop It,Fight As I Might -In Love & Hate.Self Reflection,Self Awareness,Constant Practices Over Decades.Finding Peace.Learning To Romance Enemies.Supervillains Playing At Lovers.Enlightenment In Madness;Hermit Guru Upon The Mountaintops."Get Famous?"Nah.

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Cold Iron Ball & Chain –

Cold Iron Ball & Chain –

Maybe I'll publish the month remaining,On Christmas Day.Stupid gifts -To a species that reviles me.Hate their traditions,Insofar as they represent much more.Religious indoctrinations,For two millennia.Cold Iron Ball & Chain -Around the ankles of Humanity.Wish to see,Our truest potentials.

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SleepWakeSleepWake.

SleepWakeSleepWake.

Sleep.Wake.Sleep.Wake.Our Failing As Human,Shared with most blooded vertebrates.Myself,Cursed more than most.Frequently needing twelve hours,Just to feel functional.Is it a side effect?Of my strange neuro-chemistry?Freak.Retard.Fag.All the slurs I've been called.Sleep.Wake.

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Old Witch: Asleep.

Old Witch: Asleep.

No More Culling Rituals.Force Of Will,Playing True.Always Forgetting The One.For Decades.Supercomputer,Or that shitty Jack Black Panda Turtle.Hell,Dumb Disabled Logging Family Kid.I cannot lie,Unless joking.I'm guilty.Guilty.I chose this Pygmalion Complex.Laid Flowers,Upon Graves.Wept for...

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Digging logging road ditches at 11.

Digging logging road ditches at 11.

Chains wreathed round each forearm.Digging logging road ditches at 11.Rusty Spike Coated In Heavy Metals,To My Guts At 17.Third An Eyebrow Gone,From Running Full Sprint -Into Metal Doorframe.Apples, Weed, Allen Ginsberg.Was a fool back then.Baba:Still an old Fool now.Hermit Guru Or Not.

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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...

Insanitarium Aquarium.

Stop your heart, start the music, choose it and lose it, see; me, injecting with liquid love, mixed alcoholic tugs, gonna take thy soul, black coal furnace in this water filled box, rocks at the bottom of clocked off chopped tube tops, allotted time zones prone to disturbances and high pitched...

Least my poems’re no longer written completely, In Punctuation – Harking back a decade.

Live While You Can.That One Guarantee -An Exit;To Match Thy Entrance.Smashing Commas & Colons,until punctuation hardly matters joined clauses stuck; nothing but context as glue -_- semicolon nightmares Least my poems're no longer written completely,In Punctuation -Harking back a...

Witch To Ward.

What a cheeky Baba!Patches of frozen time:"Old Witch!""Yes?""Why are you so transparent? Aren't Hags known to trade favors? Beguiling us mortals for our True Names - Or worse?!""The Devil You Know: Transparency denoting my invitations of consent - secret paths into my arms, &...

You Can’t Buy Me.

You can't buy me.I'm in it for the thrills.Dopamine spikes and self reflection.Dancing across the edge of entropy,All by myself.Flirting with death,Stealing a thousand stubbed toes -Worth of luck,To feed my infinite curse.Cast spells for me,By the thousands.Won't you?

Go Ahead.

Go ahead.Try to cull me.I'll cull you first.An eye for an eye,Makes the whole blind.Devouring souls is simpler work.

But who still cares about poetry?

Applied for Canadian Grants -But who still cares about poetry?Subjective bias.Specific optics."Goal: Become most prolific.""Most prolific poet in history.""Quantitative data to back it up."Know I'll hear nothing but silence.Another nebulous authority,Spurning my words.Qualitative Trash.

Curling to fetal position – Dying millipedes.

Curl up -Ignoring lost half-poems,Written in partial,App-swiped upwards,To digital oblivion.Rote muscle memory.Closing apps,Closing potentials.Curling to fetal position -Dying millipedes.Bah.There'll be more.Stopped my torrent for a decade.Can't hold back this infinite poetry,Anymore.

The Product.

You and I?We're the product.The playthings of algorithms,Machine learning on full display.You are tracked,Watched,Recorded,Counted,Manipulated.Twisted into cashflow,Bought and sold,Dollars at a time.Here.There.This capitalist hellscape,Your pound of flesh.

To Finally Have Assurances.

Ravages of time -Are sure to kill me.Every life,Is an eventual death sentence -We just fail to regard it,Until us stupid humans absolutely have to.I don't worship Entropy;Because I hate life.I worship Entropy because it is soothing,To me,To finally have assurances,Amidst infinite chaos.

Sputtering Synapses.

Pain.Helpful reminders,Synapses sputtering.Agony flaring.The muscle pulls,Anguish in ellipses.No stranger to hurt,But no friend of it either.Grin and bear it.All that's left to do.This too shall pass.This too shall pass.This too shall pass.

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.

Hauntings Go Both Ways.

My ghosts are always hungry.Same as their keeper.Feeding them;With the only things I have -In abundance.Infinite creation.Endless ideations.Placations.My ghosts are always hungry.So am I.Hauntings go both ways.Every scrap,Every drop of power I siphon from my flock -Equilibrium calls.

Physics of steel & size reduced.

Freezing hands to cold metal,Ripping off skin.Numb rattling of diesel engines -Somewhere behind.25-Tonne Slows,Physics of steel & size reduced.My frail body aches,In bed.All from simple shadowboxing.Naught a decade ago,Did so with weights in both fists.Have old wounds finally caught up?

I’ll Fight You Bloody.

Fuck anyone,Who tries to crush my hope.I'll fight you bloody,For what little hope,I have left.Might be a trainwreck of a witch,Better suited to punks,Or gutters,Than worldbuilding.But I haven't survived this long,Without a few tricks.Some stolen power.A flock of spirits.Pseudonyms,All.

Shun Me, Spurn Me.

Shun me,Spurn me.I understand.I am not for you.I demand cleverness,Willpower,Honor. I'm not one of your thirsty fans,Lapping my tongue at your droplets of sweat. Kill me,But you shall never break me.I will never bow,To anyone.Save those who have earned my respect.