Category: Writing

  • Group Hug – Thugs – Pirates

    Group Hug – Thugs – Pirates

    Dream: Group hug with old friends (making peace with the past) at Mac on JHE lawn.

    Later, there’s a sneaky deal in a dumpy store; I’ve got hired goons scanning the place, armed. I come back around the corner from the alley where I parked the car to see my thugs being held up by some scary-looking pirates.

    Fortunately, none saw me, so I speedily backed away from the storefront windows, got into the POS Caprice, started the engine and fled as quietly as possible.

    My heart and stomach sunk with fear when I saw those pirates – for several reasons:

    First, out of disappointment in my faith in the ability of these men and, therefore, my planning ability, the sour outcome of my deal and worst of all, that I had left a team of three men to their certain death by what appeared to be soulless mercenaries.

    The outcome could not have been pleasant.

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    Fear?

    Who have we got to be afraid of?

    Besides ourselves, perhaps

    Who knows, who cares?

    What is there to say

    When it’s all been said?

    And we realize

    That down the wrong path we’ve been led

    Pressure, pressure, pressure

    Coming from here and there

    What to wear, for whom to care

    I think the world’s nuts

    How about you?

    Do you fit in along with the rest?

    Or do you have what it takes

    To do your own thing?

    Who can define normal?

    What is that?

    Someone’s ideas, that’s all

    If we can’t break free

    That’ll be our fall

    Conforming to someone’s conception of reality

    Has never appealed to me in the least

    If we can’t separate ourselves

    We are prisoners of society

    Merely pawns of a corporate world

    Who cares not of those who cannot afford

    The newest and latest

    Rather it has many followers

    Who may not realize it

    But are rising and falling like a tide

    With every fad, style and craze.

    WHO WILL STAND OUT?

    WHO WILL RISE ABOVE?

    Desire

  • Desire

    Desire

    My desire for you

    Far surpasses flesh

    But is mind

    Body and spirit

    Combined

    Call it masochistic

    To inflict such pain

    For to dream of you

    Holds me

    So tightly bound

    I’m gasping

    Struggling to inhale

    And it moves me so

    To bring a tear to my eye

    I long for you

    You alone

    For no attraction

    Could excel

    This painful pleasure

    Merely dreaming

    Wraps around me

    And inflicts my heart

    With this sickness

    This spell you have cast

    And plays me

    Like a marionette

    Dancing to the melody

    Of your voice.

    Hunger

  • Hunger

    Hunger

    A burning hunger

    Deep within

    Only to be

    Nearer to you

    To hear

    Your soft voice

    Caressing my ears

    To see

    Your shining eyes

    Drawing me in

    Deeper and deeper

    Like a hypnotic trance

    Until I feel as though

    We are one

    And I can see right through you

    And in the glisten

    See a warm reflection

    Of myself

    Drawing my heart

    And mind

    Magnetically to yours

    To read the affection

    In your face

    Like a wonderful romance

    Yet to be unfolded

    A small origami heart

    Outstretched

    Will last forever

    Ever Stop…And Think?

  • Ever Stop…And Think?

    Ever Stop…And Think?

    Ever stop

    And think?

    Segregate yourself

    From the main stream?

    Why are we here?

    To wander aimlessly?

    To be prodded along

    Like cattle

    By popular culture

    Until we graze

    Upon something

    Something mundane

    That we “need”?

    Be spontaneous.

    Separate.

    Observe.

    Refuse

    To be cattle.

    Think.

    Independently.

    You can do it.

    Art is Born

  • Art is Born

    Art is Born

    I am not a genius

    Nor will I claim such

    But I will say this much

    That a mind is a terrible thing

    To waste.

    Repression is waste.

    The mind is a tool

    Shiny, sharp.

    Dulled en masse

    By propaganda

    Fed us by the system.

    Refuse the meal

    Excuse yourself

    From the table.

    Purge the filth.

    Knowledge cannot be taxed,

    Gross your share,

    Net the world.

    The textbook is a start

    Not an ending point.

    Art is born.

    Can you see

    Outside your box?

    For ‘tis true

    The world is flat:

    With six sides and bars

    If you cannot see

    Beyond your nose

    And smell the dung

    Disguised as gold.

    Where does an ellipse fit

    With a world of cubes?

    PORTFOLIO

  • PORTFOLIO

    PORTFOLIO

    Seeking adventures

    To fuel the dreams

    Of my next life

    Subliminal memories

    To remind me of another time

    Past

    And encouragement to keep on

    Dreaming of the future

    [[Arcane/the-inheritance/monologue/THE INHERITANCE|THE INHERITANCE]]

  • A Heist, Hauntings

    A Heist, Hauntings

    THE ARCANE DIARY needs: A Heist, Hauntings (St. Frances-co Psychological testing ground, miasmic memories)

    [[The adage “if it isn’t on paper it didn’t happen”]]

  • NICK’S TITANS

    NICK’S TITANS

    For every ton of horseshit, you have to find at least a pebble that’s worthwhile, depending on your perspective.

  • Nick & Xander gel so well because both have powers they cannot explain

    Nick & Xander gel so well because both have powers they cannot explain

    Nick & Xander gel so well because both have powers they cannot explain. Xander has always been able to coerce others with mind control to get whatever he wants, while Nick is a chameleon-like shapeshifter who can blend himself into anything with the ability to algebraically plot large impossible schemes quietly from the shadows. What they share is a guiding sensitivity to events and people.

    [[The real problem I find is in differentiating between memories, dreams, thoughts]]