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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 126 – Murdered Three Times

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: academic burnout, alcoholism, Alienation, broken ambition, circular fate, class violence, coercive education, courage misnamed, debt metaphor, detention, discipline as weapon, economic exploitation, emotional neglect, endurance, existential-fatigue, extinction metaphor, failure narrative, family betrayal, generational pressure, grief, hope collapse, identity erosion, institutional abuse, internalized blame, invisible labor, Isolation, loneliness, lost youth, love deprivation, masculinity crisis, memory loop, moral injury, Murdered, parental cruelty, rage, repetition compulsion, resignation, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 126, self-destruction, self-prosecution, silence, silence as punishment, social exclusion, substance abuse, survival guilt, testimony, Three Times, time theft, trauma, wasted effort, witness without audience.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 126 - Murdered Three Times The first blade was duty, sharp and bright.
The second was silence, endless night.
The third was the bottle-mercy in disguise.
It drank the last light from my eyes.
Now only the echo of footsteps replies. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 124 – Where Are You?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, ambiguity, authenticity, Betrayal, character test, cultural hypocrisy, despair, dignity, dignity in pain, emotional endurance, emotional exile, emotional injustice, emotional neglect, empty chair, ethical suffering, existential pain, exploitation, fractured identity, human hunger, inner collapse, Integrity, intimacy denied, invisibility, Isolation, loneliness, longing, love economy, manipulation, misread intent, moral restraint, moral-loneliness, power imbalance, psychological trauma, purity punished, rejection, restraint ethics, restraint-vs-desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 124, self-respect, shadow-self, silence, sincerity, social alienation, social cruelty, spiritual absence, thirst metaphor, transactional love, unrequited-love, unseen man, Where Are You.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 124 - Where Are You? I have spent my whole life in thirst.
Where did everyone go?
Why did no one come to me?
She did everything with everyone else,
yet never even glanced my way. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 99 – Commitment Issues

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment wound, academic setback, acceptance without closure, bitterness restrained, Commitment Issues, confessional prose, delayed adulthood, emotional abandonment, emotional exile, emotional neglect, emotional-austerity, endurance, first love aftermath, forbidden relationship, generational pressure, institutional cruelty, life interruptions, lived-experience, loneliness, lost youth, love without permission, loyalty without assurance, masculine-vulnerability, memory and regret, moral injury, obedience vs desire, persistence without reward, personal collapse, psychological fatigue, quiet despair, reflective grief, refusal of hope, rejection trauma, resignation, rolling stone metaphor, romantic realism, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 99, slow erosion, small-town romance, social stagnation, solitude as habit, stalled potential, stoic suffering, survival narrative, unchosen loneliness, unrequited-love, waiting without promise.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 99 - Commitment Issues For about a year, you loved me like oxygen-
giving me life, never asking me to stay alive,
never asking me to exhale and reach for you again with the next breath.
A small-town girl, lovely enough to be a prize
and good enough to be kept as a reward for a good life. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98 — Nothing

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, bitterness refined, desire vs fulfillment, disenchanted love, emotional neglect, emotional-austerity, emotional-starvation, emptiness, existential hunger, existential poetry, finality, hunger of the soul, hunger-metaphor, inner exile, internal exile, intimacy hunger, lived-experience, loneliness, longing, love as sustenance, masculine-vulnerability, modern confessional, moral injury, moral solitude, nihilistic clarity, nothing, nothingness, outsider perspective, poetic despair, poetic minimalism, poetic truth, post-romantic realism, psychological scars, quiet rage, refusal of compromise, refusal of substitutes, rehab narrative, resignation, restraint, romantic disillusionment, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98, scarcity mindset, self-awareness, slow self-destruction, social alienation, stoic despair, survivor’s guilt, unmet promises, unrequited-love, wounded integrity.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98 — Nothing My heart was clean, yet I was blamed-
and I remained hungry.
Everyone drank deep, ate full,
and now sleeps well,
satisfied in the warm hush of having enough. 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70 – The Door

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, absence as erasure, attachment fracture, cultural metaphor, dignity through withdrawal, door, door metaphor, emotional labor, emotional neglect, excuses, existential separation, eyes, first-order truth, friendship betrayal, grief without closure, invisibility, lived disappointment, loss of witness, moral, moral projection, politics, quiet departure, relational asymmetry, relational realism, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70, self-erasure, social replacement, The Door, unreciprocated bonds, unshared memory, walking away.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70 - The Door Those who didn’t value the salt in my tears,
a little smile on my face would have killed their ghosts out of fear.
Maybe I was just standing at the door.
The door was open-
and I had to understand what for: Read more from here...

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