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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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Teenage Crush

Posted 2 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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Bureaucracy in a Good Girl’s Relations

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Bureaucracy, collegeyears, ConfessionalPoetry, critiqueofromance, disillusionment, emotionalbureaucracy, emotionaldistance, freeverse, genderpolitics, Good Girl, heartbreakwriting, humanbehavior, intimacyandcontrol, literarycritique, loveandpower, modernpoetry, moralhypocrisy, performativevirtue, poetry, poweranddesire, psychologicalpoetry, realism, relationalethics, Relations, RelationshipDynamics, socialperformance, statusgames, unrequitedlove.

Title - Bureaucracy in a Good Girl’s Relations The hierarchy governing who may approach a “good girl”
without staining her image is ruthlessly ordered:
father first,
then elder brother,
younger brother, Read more from here...

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Perennial

Posted 2 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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Education Is Poverty

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstraction, abundance, access, Autonomy, awareness, cognitive bias, consciousness, critical thinking, Detachment, education, enlightenment, epistemology, evidence, Experience, ignorance, impermanence, inequality, information overload, inquiry, intellect, Introspection, knowledge economy, learning, logic, mental poverty, mindset, minimalism, Modernity, Observation, Paradox, perception, philosophy, poverty, rationalism, realism, reduction, reflection, scarcity, self-illumination, self-knowledge, Self-Reliance, simplicity, social critique, systems, thought, truth, uncertainty, wisdom.

Title - Education Is Poverty I study now
what I observe—
an original witness,
conclusions my evidence.
Poverty, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, authority, Autonomy, awareness, character, Coherence, consciousness, Courage, depth, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, individuality, Integrity, Isolation, law, lawfulness, lucidity, motion, necessity, nihilism, nonconformity, obligation, originality, persistence, philosophy, pilgrimage, Private Law, realism, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80, Selfhood, selfrule, seriousness, severity, solitude, stoicism, survival, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 - Private Law He walks because the sentence is life-
no appeal, no parole, no applause.
Flesh drags heavy,
the horizon burned out long ago,
yet the stride refuses surrender. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 – Why Live?

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, awareness, character, clarity, cognition, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, Integrity, Isolation, lucidity, Meaninglessness, minimalism, motion, necessity, nihilism, obligation, persistence, philosophy, realism, Refusal, repetition, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79, selfexamination, Selfhood, severity, silence, solitude, stoicism, structure, survival, Walking, Why Live, wisdom, work.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 - Why Live? Bring it yourself,
Cook it yourself,
Eat it yourself,
Then praise it yourself,
Wash up and go to sleep. Read more from here...

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Compound Isolation

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, adulthood, aging, Betrayal, character, childhood, Compound, currency, Detachment, economics, family, human, inheritance, Isolation, life, morality, obligation, Observation, philosophy, poverty, realism, reflection, society, Value, wealth, worth.

Title - Compound Isolation Childhood passed in studies,
adulthood in earning.
Middle age slipped into philosophy and rehab-
and old age will not come at all.
I have seen the poor carry a king’s attitude, Read more from here...

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Value of a Man

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Alienation, character, class, contrast, dignity, disillusionment, economics, Experience, Hierarchy, identity, Integrity, judgment, man, masculinity, money, poverty, realism, Selfhood, society, solitude, status, truth, Value, wealth, worth.

Title – Value of a Man Until twenty-three,
I lived in a college world
where a man’s value was measured
by style, intelligence,
personality, and looks. Read more from here...

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Classic Inversion

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Alienation, awakening, awareness, causality, clarity, consciousness, consequence, discipline, disillusionment, endurance, Ethics, Integrity, inversion, movement, Observation, philosophy, realism, resilience, responsibility, Selfhood, skepticism, solitude, survival.

Title - Classic Inversion I have no script,
money unsteady,
the hero dodging every promised date,
the heroine laying down her moral gates-
no skin, Read more from here...

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