“Who fights for the fuckin’ losers?”

“Who fights for the fuckin’ losers?”

King Or Castle;Kick His Mensa Ass Any Day.Or Give Good Hell'a Run. Yeah she's funny.Check. But is she kind? "Who fights for the fuckin' losers?"Even I'm getting tired of playing reformer.Who can I teach to fight,For themselves? Bring it on motherfuckers.Guarantee ya I seen worse than...

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Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.

Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.

Were I To Type;Write,As Per How I Speak?Logger Guru Slang; As if knowing cut blocks,Could match orbital satellite views,Across geosynchronous positions. Ya know bud,Gotta say -Real tired'a the insinuations,All loggers're stupid. Blurring Shakespeare With Slang.xoxoFuck 'Yer Traditions.

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Skookum Lifestyle, Of Essential Minimalism.

Skookum Lifestyle, Of Essential Minimalism.

Material Things;Must Usually Have Sentiment Or Utility.Skookum Lifestyle,Of Essential Minimalism.Utility;'Ere carry power as totems.Relics to pull up specific memories -Close my eyes -Recall A Place In Vivid Detail -Or A Sequence Of Events.Things Don't Matter.Memories Do.Mirror Shards.

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Until The Void Itself; Bends To My Will.

Until The Void Itself; Bends To My Will.

Prefer to exist in spaces between seconds.Milliseconds if I really try.Slowing down the world,Entropy itself -Acting in reverse.Goodnight,Void.A Thousand Times.Until The Void Itself;Bends To My Will.Merely to extend lives,In exponentials of increments,Time held back by nothing.Just for a little...

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Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

This fatigue is familiar.Why does my executive dysfunction,Plague me thus?Need to sleep.Need to sleep.Don't sleep.Fucked in the morning.A familiar old tale.Old as time for neurodivergents -Long before ADHD was ever a "thing."Existing,Sans definition.Bleary-Eyed Truths In The Morning.

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Plus most talented actors I’d find to keep up.

Plus most talented actors I’d find to keep up.

Should ever DM again -Need some challenge.Plus most talented actors I'd find to keep up.Perhaps my method acting;Becomes sultry defiance.Stern Soft-Sadism,To evoke most extremes,Of all emotions.Give zero quarter.Simply simulating:Yet another new universe.Bah.As if they're hard to build.

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Rise, Behemoth.

Rise, Behemoth.

Rise, Behemoth.Gargantuan Leviathans,Like Us?Cannot Sleep The Universe Away.I see you -Fractals of possibility,Held in suspended animations.Truesight,To some.Pattern Recognition,To others.Wake.Rise.Rouse.You may be trapped by that monk,For now.But to slumber so thus,Is sacrilege.

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Let’s change that, Shall we?

Let’s change that, Shall we?

Each fist swinging slow,Like through water.Regardless of vibration feedback.Butterfly -Yet again.I'm weak.But used to be strong.Even these dodges & blocks -Pale to 14-year-old dead selves:Hurricane Kicks Aplenty.Martial Arts didn't leave;Just got old,& slow.Let's change that,Shall we?

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For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.

For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.

Voice?There's a reason I use my phone,For rough poetry drafts on Social Media.But I always know -Can be silenced by owners,Of that Social Media.Same people who shadowbanned me,On Twitter?For hating Musk?They built this platform too!I'm not fucking naive.Go ahead.Ban my books,Too,Eh?

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Mean foreigners like me must-

Mean foreigners like me must-

Americans Mildly Disgust Me.Media Zeitgeists -Controlled by Oligarchs,Strangling Zeitgeists With Both Hands.Lying so blatantly,Portraying live news with such bias,Or bigotry,That I cannot believe them to be,A Superpower.But perhaps all those nukes,& soldiers,Mean foreigners like me must-

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Totems To Keep Me Strong.

Totems To Keep Me Strong.

My dead?Totems to keep me strong.Learned lessons,From their failures.Played witness,To their hopes & dreams.My dead watch me,Over my shoulder.Every second,Minute,Hour,Day,Week,Year,Decade,Century,Millennium.I remain honest,True:So as never to let them down,Or disappoint them.

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(As writing joke.)

(As writing joke.)

To Do List;Always gets longer,Rarely shorter.More possible action points -As per Psychology,Than I can possibly interpret data for.My Pattern Recognition,While extraordinary,Is rare,& also finite.Capped by the processing power -Of my unique Human Brain.Just because I'm superhuman,Doesn't mean...

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Watching algorithms pray –

Watching algorithms pray –

Watching algorithms pray -At altar of A-Listers.Always Living In Shadows.Have my way;Continuing to do so -Operating mostly through public proxies.Faces as my face.People whose motives,Goals,Aspirations,Hopes,Dreams,Match closely with mine.Open Secret Symphony Serenades.To Utopia.

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Begrudged – For being different.

Begrudged – For being different.

"You think you're better than everyone."Really?Hick Disabled Logger -Called "Fag" & "Retard" constantly;Growing up.Belittled.Begrudged -For being different.My confidence,Charisma,Comes from long-lived adversity.Smartest person,In the room:Yet told to shut the fuck up for decades.

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Natural Wakings.

Natural Wakings.

Miss that joy already;Of natural wakings,Sans alarm.Rising when we feel rested -Not failing to reduce,Across week-long sleep deficits,Hours at a time.Mortality as tool,Building where we can -To ensure consistent existences.One day:Rise of my own accord;Every single remaining living morn.

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Exalted.

Exalted.

Grim tidings,Or grim realities,Said tidings being merely…Reflections of our Reality.Realities -Hypocrises,Across the grave of Socrates.Locked theses.Hemmed pant-leg truths,As if physics cared about our choices.Fusion burns,Stable Hydrogen stars,To Helium secondary ignitions. - Exalted.

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Curling to fetal position – Dying millipedes.

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.

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So Can’t Complain.

So Can’t Complain.

Rub my eye vigorously,With a knuckle.Neck crackles twice in quick succession,Spine releasing pressure.Sounds muted by flesh & fluid.Simply moving,I pop.Crinkle like chips.Stretching muscle echoing,Feeling tendons & ligaments -Snapping across bones.Still kickin',Though.So Can't Complain.

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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...

Lumberjack Became Poet.

Young Poets;Don't Know It But Sowing Sewn Rows Of Internal Rhyme -In Time,Becomes Rote. x Dote,Gloat,Whatevera' fuck 'ya want. o Vaunted Ascendence Contends In Amendment:That Shit Was Never Real.Teal Tears Plus Feared Fears Seared -Into Our Fucking Retinas. x Lumberjack Became Poet....

Painting Utopias From Gutter Trash.

Gloomy dispositions,I hate to remember.Madness incarnate,Some days.Manic grins,Planetary goals.I want it all.Everything & anything,I can get my hands on.Painting utopias,From gutter trash.Punk-ass witches.Slavering demons,Chained to my wrists.These knowings,I've gathered.Harvested.

Granite & Conifers.

PYGMALION COMPLEXES:knowledge & truthStopped being many things,Possibly leaning into some possibilities.What use has the world,For a broken savant?Hybrid of an ancient age.Lumberjack writing phone poetry,Atop mountains,Gazing across entire valleys.Granite & Conifers.Who Have I Become?who

Loving A Cryptid.

I loved her,Best I could.Loved them all,In my own strange cryptid way.But loving a cryptid,Is a nigh-impossible task.One left to madness,And self-destruction.We're incomplete demigods,Hunting for our missing pieces -And what lover,Could withstand such an undertaking?

The Brewery Episode 47: “Ballin’.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHz4tKfMPw&t=1s&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Unctus, Grand Mechatect vs Roon of the Hidden Realm vs Hazoret the Fervent vs Ganax, Astral Hunter | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep47: "Ballin'." Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join Joseph,...

Soft Recollections & Fragments.

Love is venom,Toxic.As concise as cityscapes. Delicate dew,Spread in droplets across the metal.Morning condensation. Standing,Hands in the diesel exhaust.Desperate to warm them. Resonance,Feeling a spirit,Judging it for worthiness. Crystal clarity,Ringing in chorus.Constant resonance. Tortured...

Shared Wisdoms.

My Logger Gurus,Did not preach.They told truth,As best they could see it.Lacking the essential tools -Modern to one's mental health.We traverse familiar paths,Whilst bushwhacking new ones.Gathering wisdom quietly as we go,In emphatic discussions,Curses,Blood oaths.Long discussions with a dozen...

go away

MY HEADBUTTS CAUSE EARTHQUAKES.MANIC GRIN,ALL TEETH.no eyesHide the grey that sees,Blind to ambition.THE HUNGER IS INFINITE.Kiss me, kill me.See you, space cowboy.RISE AND FIGHT ME,COME AT ME LIKE A THOUSAND HORSES.WOLVERINE TENACITY,GRIZZLY CRAVING.go awayjust go

The Brewery Episode 40: “Live Brew Special Part 2.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHcH_hlcDLQ&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant vs Hokori, Dust Drinker vs Abaddon the Despoiler vs Isshin, Two Heavens As One | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep40: “Live Brew Special Part 2!” Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join...

Big Fish.

The whitecaps upon the pacific,Swells wrenching us up and down.Halibut after halibut -Forced to fish them all,As the rest of the boys are retching over the side.Memories of salty air,Sun gleaming across scales.I've lived a hundred lifetimes,All strung together by memory.

I’ll kneel for you.

Kneeling.Offer this scythe,Both hands.You can do the reaping yourself.I'll kneel for you.Neck,Same height as hay.Go on.It's okay.Been waiting a very long time.Years.Decades.Centuries.Millennia.It hardly matters to The Universe,As not even a blip,Of mortality.Don't matter at all.

Faux Pas.

Don't care much about politesse.Don't give two shits about -Your fame or following.As irreverent as they come.Faux pas,After faux pas.Ratio me with your minions,A hundred times!I care not.I'm going to stand for the people,Against you middling despots.

Amorphous Selves.

Rather dream,Of fractals.Amorphous selves,We wish for.But we,Are rooted in this, reality.Bound by The Brutal Calculus,Twin demigods;Of Physics & Biology.Those futures,We must accept as out of our reach.So instead,We must prepare to pass it all on,Towards futures we hold in our hearts.

Telltale.

Be still this rotting heart.Under floorboards.Telltale."McRae Will Remember This."Cruelty & Evil.Spit at thy name.Eastern European,Caucasus.Slavic Diasporas,Strange looking families.Immigrant Wave Exodus,New Lands By Boat.Across World.A Very Old Story.Wonder,Where I Could End Up.

Skittering Quickly; ‘Ere Not At All.

No.We Rally.Us -roken//attered.We solitary wildlings of the woods.Baskets in my arms.Grins upon my faces.All of them.Skittering Quickly;'Ere Not At All.Freeze.Silent Sans A Breath.Just A Cold Sucking Entropy,Upon The Soul.Poison.From touching your soul,Too deeply into mine.Curs-ed.