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57 · Feb 2022
Changes
the same people
who denied the science for decades
now scramble to solve a problem,
at the very last moment,
they let propagate
profligates
false prophets of civility
who take and erase
any knowledge
of their wrongdoing
can't deny the world around you
changing
Bacchus was the title
Conferred to those responsible for ¹"gardening."
Zagreus, lineage of Zeus but son to ²Hades, bore another title.
The "Zageuri" lead in the night.
There were no feasts of raw flesh, but many dances and celebrations while they tended to "The Great Fire."
Of the Zageuri, Zagreus lead.
The title, rendered in Latin, is like Noctus Rex.
You see, on islands, humans have the capacity for an incomparable amount of exertable control over that of their environment.
Those of the lineage Zeus & ³chosen sons of the "God" had, along with the Baccuhi, relocated or slayed the majority of the island's predators.
All those who would not be or could not be companions, like Lupus & Lybica.
The few remaining were nocturnal.
The relocation or slaying of them, any & all nocturnal predators,
Fell to those responsible for when Darkness dawned & Night reigned.
Those "descendants"  of Hades, lineage of Zeus.
And in that, "The Great Hunt," we found among the elusive,
As we had found among the obvious,
Many other intelligent animals.
Many welcomed companions.
Wherein was birthed the Zageuri title,
Noctus.

The Nocti, the owls.

Gardeners in their own right,
Yet still hunters.
1 - Scale, methods, resources expended, et cetera are closer to what we would call terraforming. Proto-terraforming.

2 - Hades being in charge of the "night shift," within this context. Nyx of his lineage. Hades of the lineage of Kronos, but son to Khaos.

3 - As in, they themselves proved they were worthy enough to make their own decisions. They are "children" because they have chosen. Chosen that specific order/family.
57 · Mar 2022
Doo Wop
i guess i got a problem
being on
my own lately
hate me
57 · Mar 2022
CZAR
prone to self righteousness
stubborn headed
and an indecisive *****

i wanna be a leader
hero complex
riding in lacking context

search through the catalogue
and scan the index
find the best and onto the next

keep the heart close
cause rest isn't for the wicked
no shut eye to begin with

i'm beginning
to believe i lost
who am i

when i began
i was sure i knew
but things never go to plan
56 · Feb 2022
Like All Of You
what do you hide
does it eat away at you while we talk
i guess, inside
it bubbles till it boils
and you explode
cause you treat us the same
every person from every walk,
held at a distance,
where you can safely gawk
so as not to fill you full of shrapnel
see wounds wrought
but it's really himself he protects
a child's son
the runt
56 · Feb 2022
Pecking Order
your friends are pathetic
like my friends are pathetic
and petty
like you and i
are
we going to lie to ourselves
trick each other into believing
either one is at fault
us together doesn't work
like that
you humiliate me and make me feel less than
tear into me and get your fill
you always have
hungrier still
again, more
finish me off
dive in for the ****
i didn't mean to take up all your sweet time
give it back to you one of these days
in the meantime, you can find mine
while you wait
55 · Jul 12
Serapis
It was our order,
Long before member Plato -
Long before member Socrates,
Which structured the Trials
To be as the Epics;
That which is this philosophy.

To celebrate our history,
I who was the last
To complete the Trials,
As was what was our most exalted tradition.
Those visionary artisans, craftsmen, scientists, inventors, writers, artists, speakers, doctors, warriors, leaders, et cetera.
Our most important of ideas, of ideals, of concepts, of perspectives, of experiences,
Of stories; of our histories, of our sciences & our cultures.

For I who last slew indifference
And made a companion
Of that of a "Minotaur."

For I who last understood & could say,
I am a Dragon.

¹Before the island fell away.

The surname of Kronos & Gaia,
Time & Nature;
Rendered, Gorgon.
1 - "Atlantis," "Elysium & Elysia;" 𝐋𝐥𝐨𝐞𝐠𝐫
**** the heart and
You leave life to the vicious realm of fact.
And now quietly, bias builds
Behind a calculated mask.
Speak your minds, and fast.
Before you lose all ability to affect any real large change.
You will be charged, regardless
Of if you said anything.
So don't say the words of other fools
Who know not even their best interest.
Talk amongst yourselves and
Find the common ground.
That is democracy's politics
55 · Mar 2022
Hello
if they're the right person
there are no missed moments
they make the moment
take it
and don't bemoan it;

what might've been
54 · Feb 2022
I Shake My Head
the last thing i want to do
is upset you
but it's food for thought
i can fix you a plate
but i can't feed you
he treats you like ****
and you let him
he thinks it luck and you fate
some fatal attraction
and you, a helpless actress
in a comedic tragedy
of his own twisted direction
take some control
54 · Feb 2022
Knots
another version of me
another version of you
what's real
i don't know
death is fine
give me mine
nothing is as it appears
walk away
54 · Mar 2022
Da
Da
******* old man
with the way you talk
you're lucky i don't smack you
in your **** mouth
with my backhand
god i'd like to lunge at you
and knock you off the ivory tower
from which you stand
so proudly
pathetic as you are
and cowardly
i pray for the day you fall
54 · Mar 2022
Don't Care
i **** on company time
cause they pay me
pennies to dimes
and if i can't
squeeze it out
fast enough
you're gonna shout
and do what?
hey get loud
i understand
i understand
the pain in the bowels
check it at the door
like the ache, in the hands
want of the finer
ideas of flowers
and a boss,
not an automaton,
but a man
i know
want a job done right?
take it into your own hands
three fingers of rye
talking about how tired and contrived
everything coming out of hollywood
is these days

cigarettes, burning in the night
watching men get bounced, denied
trying counts, and that's good
at least they say

atop my stool again
back in my booth
a familiar place
to offer comfort
ease and soothe

naked for the world's sight
from all the drugs i buy
no lie, i might stop if i could
let's let the chips ride
and if i die
it was the *****
54 · Mar 2022
I'm Sorry?
i feel like a *****
every expression
but i carry on
because i won't be misunderstood
i will stand for what i stand
and if you can't
then good
you are an *******
and just the most despicable person i know
dad
*******
after all i do for you
when it should be
flipped
what an abrupt end
we're putting to this relationship
but it's good
bud
i'm finished
"I who endow with all."

"I who endow all."

"I who give definition."

"I who light the shadows."
53 · Nov 2021
Loving Can Be
love
they say of you
that our thoughts should never be in vain
even when you cause misery
even when you cause pain
to stay true to the soul
before you're taken by the soil
and not to let your heart be sullied
by the strains of the toil
loving can be
oh, but how wondrous
how absolutely terrific
certainly and undeniably
of all
the greatest thing we can share in
oh but how wondrous
loving can be
53 · Mar 2022
Gitarre
the heart murmurs
what the mind will no longer hear
it's no longer a need
to just be firmer
or to share,
the hopes and fears
because it doesn't draw you near
and i am left
holding my heart out
53 · Feb 2022
Mmm
Mmm
I'm an open book
you're a closed in castle
i give you the key to each passage
but it doesn't matter
to you
I'm another *******
i bang on the gates
but each assault is a wash
and diplomacy doesn't work any better
i typically don't talk much about myself
like the new job, my second now
or skydiving
getting drunk with new friends
speeding to 121 while driving
cliff diving
the mountainous hiking
or the praise from my manager
and a raise coming
these things feel like they don't matter
52 · Feb 2022
Eyes
there's a picture you sent
that i can't help but stare
at night, when i'm bundled up in bed
i just lose myself in it
cause they're just so deep and
i know i should probably quit
but there's something here
that i wanna stick with
52 · Feb 2022
Leaving The Dog
please stop reading
into what i'm saying
and just ******* forget me
pretend like you'd never met me
it's for the best
52 · Jun 27
Hypnos, Thanatos
"From whence you came
No memory shall you retain,
Lest peace by self-contentment you regain.
But remember in dreams."

"From where you were
Never again to return,
Lest in your time given you have proven your worth.
But forget in living."
52 · Mar 2022
I Spit On You
yuppie ****
think you're an intellectual
cause you say a few fanciful words
recite a few blurbs
of things you misheard
smarter men speak
you wreak
pathetic and weak
and you can barely stand
to look me in the eye
i see right through you
this is no position
you're suited to
52 · Mar 2022
I.O.U. Meaning
i am done
with everyone
i know
and the man
in the mirror
can finally die
when i slit his throat
slow
and beads of blood
trickle
before the flood
flows
i greet

rising
crashing
this
warm fuzzy feeling
in my stomach
creeping across me
falling peacefully
in and out
pieces of me
coming out
clinging
just to slip through
i want to shout
but i have no mouth
and prayer
doesn't work
i'm not devout
so i go on
wondering about
free of doubt
free of it all
casting a shadow
as my character
51 · Jun 27
Prometheus, Baldur
In such immaculate conceptions
As science & philosophy,
In broader & more beautiful innovations.
I who first breathed in, creation;
Thought.
The first blessed by electric.
Don't make the mistake of listening to people who deal only in absolutes. For who everything is either black or white. These people are not intelligent and are likely not looking out for other individuals, rather they are looking out for their best interest as a collective. Whether that collective is as themselves as individuals within one structure or system, or that system or structure itself.
51 · Mar 2022
Then Leave
you are a selfish person
i think the worst thing
is you know it
lead me on
because of boredom?
used
like an emotional ******
and discarded just as quick
regarded
as a contact
to complain to
when you're in a stitch
or you've
just got that itch
this is how i see it
if you needed me
for even the most miniscule
i'd drop everything
but this 60/40,
that **** isn't working
51 · Nov 2021
Warmth No Longer Residing
I wake up alone
Something that before, had no affect
Now it chills me to the bone
Took it all for granted, in retrospect

And I'd do it all different
Were time such
That it'd allow me to do what I didn't
But it's better I guess, I'm learning hard

Hardly learning, cause I'm too held up surviving
Afraid of flying, cause all I've done is dying
So I think, I'll just sit for a while
Till I pluck up the courage to fake a smile

I can't say what it is
That causes me to fracture
Like a glass mirror
The reflection is but a static actor

If you want to really know
What exactly is the truth of the matter
At this point I'd say I'm not broken just battered
I'll stay standing
Cause laying down is easy
When I'm ready to go
I'll just be leaving
51 · Feb 2022
Starry Eyed Liar
you think stoicism stupid
yet you subscribe to it
and love men who are
hypocrite
among many other names
51 · Mar 2022
Psilocybin
"are you okay, you look like you're going to cry"
yes, yes, i'm fine
why, am i red?
i'm okay i swear
i can breathe
i'm aware
i'm getting choked up
frogs in my throat
it's nothing
don't cry
don't cry
till you get home
51 · Feb 2022
Never No More
i care about you
i want you
if you're screaming
i want to be
screaming with you
or breaking down
though
anything to do with me
rest on these shoulders alone
stoic joke
i deserve to die
More than mere "time-pieces"
These are who measure out the light
Of which Sol casts & which souls cast.
They are learners of the past,
Keeping their eyes & their ears open
As much as in the present as in the future.

By looking & seeing,
By hearing & listening.
Gnomon, or the plural Gnomen,
Being synonymous with Seer & Seers - respectively.

From Gnosis, Greek for knowledge;
Gnomen is like a positive term for "one who knows all." As opposed to the negative term of "know-it-alls."
50 · Feb 2022
I'm so sad
i'm finally starting to believe
all those things
you said to me
finally feeling like
i can leave
without losing anything
there was nothing ever really there
for the girl who can't ever actually care
but really empty
50 · Feb 2022
M.A.D.
how often do you go around
making beds
but never rest
you please on your knees
begging, baby
don't take out
the anger on me
it don't pay to be meek
but these words
are of no use
while we **** away our youth
50 · Mar 2022
Gotta Get Sober
everyone is her
everything said
is something she wrote
i'm a fool
but you are too
good
maybe separate
we'll learn something
a call away
hop and skip
but i know
i'll never see that day
nice while i could
stomach being the only
one to care
no longer stand
the empty things you say
leave me drained
i understand
you're not a player right
you just crush a lot
top, but i feel like
i'm getting ******
all my life
the worst people
been my destruction
and my own
everyday betrayals
layers of
dis-function
That others should want for you
To be deprived, whether on grounds of one being more talented or
Of hate with looser attachment up in the air;
They will claim their envy admiration,
Their harm help.

They would stifle you & slander
Just to pit sibling against sibling.
Whether by blood or by society.
They would seek to undermine
Your tapestry,
Trying to force you to design theirs.

These you should not hesitate to fight,
Whether physical or otherwise;
𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, we encourage it!
It's not about ****** you sick freaks. It's about working together with family or even those whom you view as family.

Collaborate with who you 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 to, not who you feel you must by matter of circumstance or force.

Arachne, like Phalanx, was without "sin."
Minerva's sin though was envy, manipulation, slavery, homicide, et cetera.
lunch in the park
on a bench by the stream
babbling
lost in the book i read
while the brook streams
leaves down past
and sunlight
dances, through the trees
to greet me
glided across the pages
like so many before me
through the ages
49 · Feb 2022
E=
E=
i won't think about before
yesterday
tomorrow be ******
my future, and past
tell after, it's canned
49 · Feb 2022
Sleep Is A Euphemism
sleep is a euphemism
for the slicing of throats
for the slitting of wrists
the silencing of hope
voices that echo
shadows imprinted
onto flesh, onto stone
embedded deep into marrow
to cause ache in the bones
of souls long lost
never made whole
euphemism
49 · Mar 2022
Loose Change
sick of chasing
you're the one
that always
runs through my mind

this field
my makeup
reality
is muddled

eyes that echo
dreamy moonlit eves
i have to let go
if i don't i'll drown

leave, and make it
the last time you do
if you come down
i'm goin too

now i think
i'm happier than
i'll ever be
still in misery

that's the best
i can hope for
a loser like me
it's a mystery

why i still live
i appreciate
the love y'all give
but it's *******

so i'm hunting
this bottom is no peak
doubt i find what i seek
but won't catch me fronting
49 · Mar 2022
I I I I I
insecure, unsure
i should just **** myself
and get it over with

i am only living for others
it all feels so pointless
it all feels empty

and no one respects me
like everyone hates me
and i hate me

i'm disgusting
and blow up
from the littlest things

i, the fool
**** me
48 · Jul 12
Kronos
There is no sacrifice ,
In the form of any one individual,
Which can be made by One
For the well-being or "saving" of all.

Not in that superstition, crazed way.
This is foolish & meaningless.

Collectively,
All individuals must find the way
To live with Nature as opposed to against.
There is no other way besides not continuing, ergo dying.
48 · Feb 2022
Good Enough
i keep trying to write about you
but i don't need to
moreover i think you get
a sick sort of satisfaction from it
i hope it's enough to know
you started it
enough to feed your emptiness
48 · Feb 2022
It Ain't Personal
your man
makes me despise all men
even though
i just should despise you
i can't bring myself to
he's just a boy
i guess you're just a girl
can't see clearly
close my eyes, but you still stir
in my mind
reaching out my arm
but it just reminds
of all the time apart
the slits you've cut
that which you done
what was harm
stays with me
putty in your palm
mashed and grated
spliced, and dissected
like your veterinary demonstrations
solo
cause how often
has that been a way
i have gone
totally on my own
maybe each hit
will be softened
close my eyes to the ****
going on worlds over
disconnect from the news
turn off my phone
it's all over
whatever was going on
Infinity, some might say,
Is simple.
Yet, most are unfamiliar
With the origin of its symbol.
48 · Mar 2022
Wretched Existence
probably
i take it all too personally
i'm just having fun
what's the harm
it's only a little
but what's the outcome
look around
this is something
only our parent's parents
could've out done
48 · Jun 24
GorDIAS
The Gordian Knot?
¹ The mesh of civilization.

To untie it is to understand it,
To know it.
This is to TIGHTEN it.

To cleave it is to try to conquer it;
It all comes undone,
Never to be re-strung.

You can be Prometheus,
Who was actually always celebrated,
Or you can be Aeneas -
The one who was really ChAINhed to the rock.

What matters is learning,
² All else is for naught.
1 - Or the fabric of the universe.

2 - Naught or, more aptly, Knot. All else is which we might tie or untie in either attachment or liberation is itself for civilization.
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