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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bleak clarity, brothel narrative, Capitalism, class consciousness, commodification, confessional poetry, contemporary poetry, death and illness, dignity, emotional deprivation, emotional-austerity, emotional-truth, ethical tension, Ethics, existential literature, first-person narrative, grief, honesty, Human Cost, human worth, Indian English poetry, intimacy without love, late modern poetry, loneliness, loss, masculinity, money and value, moral accounting, moral injury, nihilism resisted, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, quiet rage, realism, realism-over-romance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93, silence, social critique, social hypocrisy, solitude, solitude ethics, survivor voice, transactional intimacy, trauma writing, unsentimental writing, value collapse, vulnerability, Wonderful World.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 - What a Wonderful World My mother died two and a half years ago.
My father just suffered a heart attack.
At thirty-seven, single, I felt utterly unable to cope.
When I headed to the brothel, I knew exactly where I was going.
I kept telling myself: They don't give love; they sell what you pay for-and that's all you'll get. Read more from here...

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Bhoot Jolokia Fiery Curry

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anger, body-politics, class, commodification, confession, cremation-ground, cultural-symbolism, desire, domestic-power, emotional neglect, endurance, Exile, Existentialism, faith, family-structure, free-verse, godlessness, hunger, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-of-virtue, identity, Indian-society, inheritance, Isolation, Krishna-metaphor, loneliness, male-lament, marginalization, masculinity, money, morality, nameplate, nihilism, Outsider, patriarchy, power, rage-poetry, self-indictment, sex-work, sexuality, shame, silence, social critique, status, temple, thirsty-crow, voyeurism, Walking, witness.

Title - Bhoot Jolokia Fiery Curry Sometimes a man has to look in the mirror
at least once a day,
maybe after taking a dump,
while washing his hands.
I have no one. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54 – Before and After

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: AI authority, Alienation, authenticity, authorship, Before and After, character, commodification, consent and value, epistemic power, existential ethics, feminism-adjacent critique, gender conditioning, Intimacy., loneliness, love versus transaction, masculinity, modern relationships, moral economy, Negotiation, originality, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, Refusal, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54, social contracts, social validation, truth without currency.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54 - Before and After A woman is taught
that everything must happen before.
She must listen to the herder,
bend to his wants,
and in the same breath Read more from here...

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