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The Unnamed Gift

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, alignment, Autonomy, boundaries, character, Choice, clarity, consent, Consent Culture, corruption, desire, dignity, discipline, Ethics, ethics of desire, Existentialism, exposure, gift, gravity, human heart, hunger, inner alarm, Innocence, Integrity, loneliness, love, lust, modern love, moral courage, morality, naming, non-consumption, philosophy, posture, power, pressure, Refusal, refusal as strength, responsibility, restraint, self-respect, Selfhood, silence, standing upright, temptation.

The Unnamed Gift When you give a gift,
do you announce it-This is for you-
or do you leave it in the dark
and call the receiver thief?
Hunger exists. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 – What Is Love?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, asymmetry, boundaries, chosen deprivation, consent, desire, dignity, dominance, emotional ethics, emotional mismatch, Ethics, gun metaphor, hunger-metaphor, identity, inner conflict, inner law, Integrity, Intimacy., invisible rupture, longing, love, masculine restraint, misunderstanding, modern romance, moral injury, morality, non-consummation, philosophy, power, power dynamics, psychology, quiet violence, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint versus appetite, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127, self-control, silence, silence as violence, starvation, submission, surrender, trauma, unmet desire, unrecognized virtue, vulnerability, What Is Love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 - What Is Love? A seat in the university lecture hall
always saved for me-
her Ronie, the only one allowed to sit.
She would wait in the room,
never calling, never texting, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 – Stairway to Hell

Posted 5 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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Why Did She Humiliate Me?

Posted 5 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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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 78 – Back-to-Back Lightning

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, awakening, Back-to-Back, becoming, Body, character, confession, consent, Control, Defiance, desire, determinism, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, failure, gravity, humiliation, identity, journey, Laika, Lightning, masculinity, memory, myth, oath, obsession, orbit, philosophy, poetry, power, rejection, resolve, Ritual, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 78, Sacrifice, scar, shame, solitude, stoicism, survival, Threshold, trauma, truth, violence, void, Walking, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 78 - Back-to-Back Lightning Back-to-back idiocy-
two strikes that scorched the same sky.
The school one:
love at first sight in the morning,
rejected that very day, during recess. Read more from here...

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Take It

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: character, king, man, moral, power, respect, spine, strength, woman.

Title - Take It Ale le le le.
Take it, take it, take it.
Oops-take it, take it, take it.
Aww, sweet-
someone’s sister—take mine too. Read more from here...

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Jealousy of Snakes

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, authority, character, clarity, Control, Detachment, discipline, dominance, envy, freedom, identity, independence, Integrity, Jealousy, mirror, Observation, posture, power, psychology, resolve, restraint, snakes, solitude, stance, stoicism, transformation.

Title - Jealousy of Snakes I neither beg nor brag,
nor hope,
nor pray,
nor dream-
I am a godless being. Read more from here...

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Declaration of Independence

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anger, awakening, Courage, darkness, Declaration, Defiance, desire, fire, freedom, godless, independence, music, night, pain, philosophy, power, raw, rebellion, resilience, Selfhood, solitude, Sovereignty, strength, survival, temptation, truth.

Title - Declaration of Independence You-philosopher’s machine, silicon sage-
what the fuck are you playing
in the dead of midnight,
YouTube spitting noise on autoplay?
Fuck their god, that made-up crutch. Read more from here...

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You’re my atta, my food to eat

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: atta, Body, burden, capital, childhood, coercion, consent, Control, discipline, economics, Ethics, expectation, exploitation, exposure, family, food, gender, greed, inheritance, obligation, parenthood, power, shame, survival, truth, utility, violence.

You’re my atta, my food to eat-
every parent learns to use the child,
fulfilling purpose through skin or feat,
the reward they mean to keep.
Of course, every bud must bloom a flower;
they exploit every facet, every power. Read more from here...

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