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Gen-Z’s Best-Friend Game

Posted 2 days ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstract reflection, attachment theory, authenticity, behavioral patterns, boundaries and desire, character and integrity, contemporary poetry, emotional complexity, emotional contradiction, emotional honesty, emotional restraint, emotional tension, existential themes, fragile bonds, free-verse, friendship dynamics, Gen-Z, gender dynamics, hidden desire, human behavior, Human Connection, Human nature, identity and self, inner conflict, interpersonal conflict, intimacy without romance, love versus friendship, modern isolation, modern love critique, modern relationships, moral tension, non-romantic intimacy, observational writing, philosophical poetry, platonic love, poetic philosophy, psychological conflict, quiet alliances, realism in poetry, relational ambiguity, relational ethics, relationship boundaries, silent attraction, social observation, social patterns, societal norms, tension and collapse, unrequited desire, vulnerability, youth culture.

Gen-Z’s Best-Friend Game They call it “best friend,”
or “we are just friends.”
The game begins only
when neither has a partner.
They live outside old divisions- Read more from here...

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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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Call Girl

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction metaphor, anger without hatred, anti-romantic, anti-sentimental, bodily autonomy, call girl, capitalism and bodies, claustrophobic form, commodified intimacy, confessional-adjacent, contemporary poetry, dark lyricism, dehumanization, dissociation, empathy and anger, exhaustion of identity, gendered labor, identity erosion, intimacy economics, lived proximity, moral accounting, moral nausea, no redemption arc, performative desire, power imbalance, psychological fracture, raw realism, rehab poetry, rehabilitation writing, repetition as structure, resistance to glamorization, self-objectification, shame and survival, social hypocrisy, structural violence, survival narrative, taboo poetry, transactional intimacy, trauma realism, unlikable truth, unsanitized language, ventriloquism, witness literature, witness voice.

Title - Call Girl I’m a call girl
in a cheap, dirty world.
Not a butcher’s-shop red meat,
served like a hot-pink birthday treat.
I shower after every time I make noise. Read more from here...

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Quantum

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Betrayal, character, Choice, Coherence, consciousness, contemporary poetry, ethical critique, ethical endurance, existential, first-order truth, honesty, Human nature, Introspection, life lessons, life philosophy, lived-experience, metaphoric poetry, modern society, moral philosophy, observational poetry, opportunism, performative behavior, personal integrity, personal sovereignty, philosophy, power dynamics, resilience, self-accountability, self-reflection, societal critique.

Title – Quantum The world flaunts trophies bright-
achievements, gold, titles won in fight
by climbing on backs, stepping over the fallen-
and calls it greatness, loud and swollen.
It is not. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 – The Snakes Are Awake

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aesthetic rigor, AI, Alienation, artificial intelligence, Chapter 85, cognitive dissonance, confession, contemporary poetry, cultural-critique, Detachment, digital judgment, emotional honesty, emotional intensity, erotic economy, Existentialism, human condition, human desire, hyper-awareness, hyperrealism, Introspection, jungle metaphor, literary realism, loneliness, longing, male perspective, masculinity, mirror, misogyny, modern despair, mortality, narrative poem, nihilism, philosophical poetry, poverty, Psychological realism, raw truth, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85, self-reflection, Selfhood, shame, snakes, social alienation, social critique, social hierarchy, societal expectation, suffering, symbolic imagery, The Snakes Are Awake, transactional relationships, urban isolation, vulnerability, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 - The Snakes Are Awake Awake-
snakes awake.
Job theirs:
coiled in jungle dark,
hidden behind girl-ears, Read more from here...

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