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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute Zero, Betrayal, burden, Canteen, character, Childhood Scars, College Life, Courage, desire, devotion, discipline, emotional intelligence, Empty Stadium, Exile, Existentialism, fate, First Year, first-love, first-order truth, Ghosting, Gnosticism, Heartbreak, Inner Artist, Integrity, intent, loneliness, masculinity, memory, Penance, philosophy, Reconciliation, recovery, Redemption, rehab, resilience, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117, self-punishment, self-worth, Silent Gaze, Social Contract, solitude, Sovereignty, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, The Ledger, The Void, The Walk, trauma, truth, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107 – What is Bad Luck?

Posted 5 months ago under Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, accountability, Agency, aging, Anatomy, bad luck, being, Body, Brutality, Change, Chapter 107., character, Choice, cold, Companion, decay, desire, Essence, fragility, growth, honesty, human condition, identity, intent, Iron, logic, loneliness, Luck, Maturity, minimalism, mirror, origin, philosophy, presence, recovery, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107, Self-Audit, shadow, silence, sobriety, solitude, Source, Stasis, survival, Syllogism, Transcendence, truth, void, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107 - What is Bad Luck? What is bad luck?
Wrong time,
wrong place.
Who chose that time, that place?
Who carried me there? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Artist vs Man, Branded Useless, College Memories, coming-of-age, Confessional, Consent Culture, desire, Disconnection, emotional intelligence, Emotional Void, Four Years of College, Fragmented Love, Heartbreak, Helipad Metaphor, High Character, Hourglass, Human Connection, identity, Integrity, Interior Monologue, Intimacy., justice, Literary Grit, Lust Train, Lust vs Love, Male Consent, male vulnerability, masculinity, Mirroring, Misfired, Misunderstood Men, Modern Dating, modern-poetry, Narrative Poetry, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, Psychological Warfare, raw emotion, rejection, Resonance., respect, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-knowledge, Self-Reflexive, Sexual Ethics, The Artist’s Voice, The Long Game, trauma.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired I was afraid-
how do I cup her face in my hands
and whisper, Stay quiet. 
Let me admire what I have.
She pressed closer. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 – Stairway to Hell

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstinence, Agency, ambiguity, attention, awakening, boundaries, college, consent, consequence, Control, desire, Detachment, discipline, distance, dominance, ego, Ethics, fallout, friendship, Hierarchy, humiliation, identity, irony, loneliness, loss, lust, masculinity, memory, miscommunication, narrative, Observation, perception, performance, power, Pride, reflection, Reputation, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96, rumor, self-myth, silence, Stairway to Hell, stairwell, status, temptation, transformation, trauma, vulnerability, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 - Stairway to Hell As an engineering student with an analytical mind-trained in basic physics and mathematics, capable enough-my mind first studied her eyes in the college corridor.
She planted her right hand on the wall above my shoulder, stopping me mid-step as I began descending the stairs in the middle of the corridor.
Jovial, yet forceful.
Why wasn’t she afraid of Ronie?
She was just as tall as I was. Read more from here...

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Teenage Crush

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, adolescent-psychology, awkwardness, bittersweet, class-dynamics, coming-of-age, confusion, desire, emotional clarity, emotional honesty, emotional-literacy, everyday-moments, first-love, grounded-voice, human-fallibility, humiliation-without-drama, identity formation, Innocence, irony, lived-experience, longing, lost-time, masculinity, memory-as-wound, memory-fragments, nostalgia, observational poetry, past-self, personal-history, quiet-pain, realism, realism-over-romance, reflection, rejection, restraint, school-life, self-awareness, shyness, sincerity, social-pressure, teenage-memory, tenderness, understated-tragedy, unrequited-love, unsentimental-love, vulnerability, youthful-ego.

Title - Teenage Crush Today it returned again-
a heavy scoop from those years,
my first amateur crush.
Love at first sight,
third day of school. Read more from here...

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Why Did She Humiliate Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: animal-metaphor, anti-romance, biology, desire, Existentialism, Human nature, humiliation, hunger, Innocence, Intimacy., jungle-symbolism, loss, masculinity, modern-epic, mythic-poetry, philosophy, power, psychology, regret, restraint, self-knowledge, sexual-politics, tenderness, tragic-realism, unmet-love.

Title – Why Did She Humiliate Me? Why did she humiliate me so?
That heart-breaking woman laid me low.
To learn what happened, who he truly was,
he walked into the jungle, just because-
and lingered long in thought’s unyielding shade Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. Read more from here...

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Perennial

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction, biology, blunt poetry, call girl, Capitalism, desire, drug peddler, economic, existential, exploitation, flesh, Human nature, intoxicants, lust, meth, morality, profit, realism, society, subculture, survival, systemic truth, transactional, vice.

Title — Perennial Lust and intoxicants-
flesh and meth-
anywhere on earth:
indoors, outdoors,
forest floor or open sea. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 – What Is Life

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, anti-nihilism, authenticity, Autonomy, becoming, character, consciousness, creative will, desire, discipline, endurance, ethical selfhood, existential clarity, existential courage, existential poetry, Existentialism, human condition, identity, individualism, inner law, inner life, Introspection, inward journey, lived-philosophy, meaning, meaning through action, metaphysical inquiry, modern stoicism, nonconformity, persistence, personal mythology, personal truth, philosophical prose, philosophical realism, philosophy-of-life, poetic philosophy, purpose, refusal-of-illusion, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84, self-actualization, Self-determination, self-honesty, Self-Responsibility, Selfhood, solitude, solitude and strength, spiritual independence, truth seeking, What Is Life, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 - What Is Life Twenty years ago, obviously-
reproduction.
And that consciousness business.
But mainly: life should not end.
Its whole purpose- Read more from here...

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Bhoot Jolokia Fiery Curry

Posted 6 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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