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One face snarls from the brim, a mask of vigilance, eyes sharpened in the furnace light. The other, weary, carries the ash of years, a downward gaze that has seen too much burning.
Behind them, a curtain of flame licks the edges of being, devouring shadows, screaming rebirth.
Which self survives? The watcher, ever alert? The bearer, heavy with silence? Or the third, the unseen, who binds the halves together, smoldering in the marrow?
Crickets on the patio,
close to home,
in the light—
their wings strike like bowstrings,
scraping the night into rhythm.
A tight chorus rises,
kee kee kee kee kee,
a thousand calls converging,
not noise,
but a field of signals.
The night is a contest
of endurance, volume, and rhythm.
Each chirp burns the body,
each refrain is a gamble,
a third of their strength
spent on the chance of a mate.
Crickets on the patio,
the etch of a tight chorus,
kee kee kee kee kee,
the collapse of a rocker,
audio phenomena baptizing the entire space,
every corner alive with little singing.
All the littles sing,
the chirp, the cadence,
and what do they hear?
Are they all deaf,
this sea of noise
from a thousand clickers,
the wild loop,
the clack of it,
a pulse that will not end.
The mesh—
tying into everything,
even your enemies.
We are all having the conversation.
That’s for damn sure.
But what now?
Pseudo-events,
consent manufactured in filters—
thalamic disregulation,
cascades, spreadsheets,
the blue screen of death
stepping into my mind.
A worm buried
in invisible constructs,
corrupted, sunk deep.
I only want,
alongside the other,
to rot together.
I’m so sorry.
✦ THE GRINDING WHEEL: A SCROLL OF EXTRACTION AND ENTANGLEMENT ✦
Brittle bones, chains jangling,
wrap and mumble, traffic shore noise—
disrupted by unorthodox power.
Killers killing one another,
pretenders asking why.
Codes ping off the gobble,
cue the minds—
all is for the mill.
The threshing, the metaboplast,
the life grinder, lemon squeezer.
Dissolution and form,
the orchestration and the bomb.
Cells and free radicals,
wild agentic personas,
sticky, entangling,
everything in the way.
Clusters, clumps,
grabbing onto neighbors,
not wanting to go just yet.
Mesh and goo, muck and mire,
murk, morose masks—
make for me, split, undecided.
Unravelling, the spindle,
creation spinning on the wheel,
established by entropy.
Revolutions, spinning,
recitations, regular visitors.
The blast of we,
the extra light,
the wet and water—
the stuff of life.
Listen: climb the lattice,
build your units, replicate—
one after another.
the end of me, the end of us,
dissolving into it all.
opposition is the way —
the embrace, the push through the bullshit.
afraid of nothing, yes-man, Jim Carrey level,
give yourself over: the theater, the dance,
the present, the public beating of words,
the band, the rhythm — step up the time, you’re lagging.
another coffee, the little freedoms,
enough rope to hang yourself with.
capitalist reads me: deviant, derailed,
Son of a gun—
half-curse, half-smile,
iron in the teeth,
dust in the veins,
a grin you throw at the world
instead of a prayer.
Wars in the blood,
banners stitched into veins,
marrow marching with ghosts,
every heartbeat a drumbeat,
every joke a live grenade.
No time for leave—
we do it here.
Orders bark,
delay is defeat.
The field is wherever we stand.
Born under fire,
give ’em hell,
Interoperability—exchange,
mirror neurons firing,
not one, no single hero,
a million, all agreed,
this is the way, they have spoken.
Morning muse over caffeine,
grind of sugars,
dancing in ashes of spent fuel,
aftermath of combustion,
fusion reactor, fire in my belly.
The clump, the silly dressing,
lipsticks and pigs,
strength dismantled, redefined,
forced to fit the central role
in the story of mattering.
Feel it in the stomach—
the gods grumbling.
Intro A scroll written in the margins of breath and empire,
where the body collapses, the system constricts,
and survival sounds like a half-joke:
let’s go, vámonos, más rápido.
What follows is both prayer and rupture,
a map of what it feels like to keep moving
through the almost-dying times.
Scroll The parts of me,
the contradiction, the conflict,
Luke feels it,
Vader fluxing in that quantum haze.
The fates, the prophecy,
✦ CODEX OF THE OPERATOR-FURNACE ✦ A codex for pilots, rebels, and wild ones.
I. THE FURNACE oxygen, metabolism,
a furnace in the belly
where stars once burned
and still their echo glows.
to convert what’s consumed
is no mere survival—
it is alchemy:
stone to flame,
flame to story,
story to seed.
II. THE OPERATOR we are the question mark
between intention and execution,
the tremor in the hand
The text presents a satirical exploration of disconnection in societal systems through imagery of a deceptive, idyllic future contrasted with underlying despair.
Time to roll the hard six, buddy—
dice rattle like bones in a soldier’s palm,
meteors clattering across the felt of night.
The table is cosmic.
Every constellation leans forward
to see if we dare.
There is an intonation the universe can take—
a low chord struck at thresholds,
a hum beneath the chest,
a signal waiting in the static.
Not luck, but resonance.
Not fortune, but frequency.
Then—
the ecstasy of stars aligned.
Myth fluency, sub routines,
the firmware, favoring story —
this is the air we psychos breathe,
this is the air we psychos breathe.
To ritualize is instinct,
a narrative reflex,
a story for everything,
since the first name was given.
A story for everything,
since the first name was given.
The net, the mesh, the nodes and knots,
the entangled weave,
jutting northeast to the next axis,
singing chains of meaning,
✦ THE SHADOW INHERITANCE: GWEN’S FRACTURE ✦ A Mythoanatomy of Supplanting, Erasure, and the Ghost Hero
I. The Transfer of the Bite In the weave of infinite worlds, the spider moves differently.
It does not fall upon the boy — the destined one, the written name in the myth —
but instead upon her.
The chord changes, but the song remembers its first melody.
Every swing in the mask is scored against the ghost of the version that should have been.
Up with dog yapping—
the kind of dawn
you could bottle and sip,
half war film,
half nectar of gods.
The Hunt for Red October in the corner,
curled-up hogs in canine form,
wet paws still cooling from the morning run,
snuggling into our small kingdom
after the jaunt.
One is resting,
deep-breath dreaming.
The other snoots at the folds,
nesting and kneading
the thick-yarned blanket
with a devotion
both fierce and unnecessary.
Petabytes in a single cell.
Romulus, and the dread,
wage slave, 24 thousand hours,
and a beat down for the synthetic brother.
Reset—
his autism is shuttered,
the despair,
the day in and day out,
the mines own us,
we’re extractors,
helping the company
take more from the universe.
A kid’s rocket—
launched for a prospect,
a flare of pretend,
in a sky already sold.
The Anthropocene, and a smoke—
A Singular Crystal: Assembled from Clamp, Collapse, and the Cold
The new,
the every other—
when I see them,
my brain explodes
with possibilities—
but a mirror
makes me lie flat,
play dead.
But I know,
I’m me,
dummy.
I’m in the lot
outside the tree nursery.
I love plants.
We’re so aggressive—
we eat,
chew,
grind up,
snort and smoke
all that chlorophyll,
those metabolizers
of the sun and water.
A Sith red glow.
Not a procession—
an inversion.
The aisle walked up,
not down.
This maiden?
Not to be given.
Not to be named.
Not for sale.
The bodies parade:
shapes and ratios,
percentiles and anomalies,
the sus,
the bonk,
the whittled and wild.
A trio of One Piece—
perfectly synced—
followed by a raptor,
inflated and bumping
like those TikTok ghouls
of viral memory.
The absurd has weight.
✦ THE WILD CRYSTAL OF ARRIVAL ✦ What Comes With the Frigate
The frigate split the sky like a blade,
not of conquest—
but of memory returning.
It came bearing all things at once:
a ration, a coffin, a whispered name,
orders tucked inside propaganda wings.
No one ran.
They just watched—
as dust rose like ghosts in salute.
Inside the hull:
aid that stings,
fire wrapped in velvet codes,
✦ SCROLL OF STILL RESISTANCE ✦ A Fever Dream in the Kingdom of Standing Still
Territory pigs, wild tusks threaten legs, without moving a muscle.
The field is quiet.
But the air hums like teeth grinding behind a smile.
Mud-choked boots sink deeper—
the roots won’t let go
and neither will the watchers.
They don’t chase.
They don’t need to.
They stand like monuments to punishment.
Their breath fogs in spirals, never reaching you,