Entitlement (The Old Man and the Sea)

Title – Entitlement (The Old Man and the Sea) If even I don’t know, then who does?
This is my claim: direct experience towers over academic titles.
Put her where I stand-
tell me what she would see.
Or would she disintegrate instantly, Read more from here...
We were Stupid

Title - We were Stupid Such nice people,
beautiful society-
simply wonderful.
Give cash, take ass.
Respect little coins, Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 66 – Volume Button

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 66 - Volume Button I am not selling capsules or pills for immortality.
I am doing my job.
I am a philosopher.
I do not want a volume button for my roar.
If you find me boring, feel free to leave. Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

I walk.
Not because I am brave, and not because I am lost, but because stopping would require a lie. Walking is the only posture my character can hold without collapsing.
I was born between two zeros. Before me, nothing. After me, nothing again. In between, this body learned hunger, this mind learned patterns, and this heart learned thirst. Consciousness only learned one thing: it does not want to end. Everything else is decoration.
The world taught me early that existence is transactional. Smile correctly, bend at the right angle, desire the approved objects, and you may be granted warmth. I refused the performance. I did not refuse love; I refused the counterfeit. The refusal cost me everything.
People say loneliness is the absence of others. They are wrong. Loneliness is being intact in a world that rewards fracture. It is being original where copies are easier to circulate. I did not lose people; I was never selected by the system that distributes them.
I carried a heart that wanted to give without invoice. The world answered with rates. Every touch asked for currency-money, status, compromise, obedience. When I could not pay, I was instructed to disappear politely. So I did. I disappeared while remaining alive, which is a more difficult discipline than death. Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55 – Point of View

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55 - Point of View I will not reply directly to any comments.
Go ask the machine
what I have written.
Only when I hold value in your eyes-
no longer just the underdog- Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54 – Before and After

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54 - Before and After A woman is taught
that everything must happen before.
She must listen to the herder,
bend to his wants,
and in the same breath Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 – The Tough Gets Going

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 - The Tough Gets Going When the going gets tough,
the tough gets going.
After time has stripped everything bare-
possessions, people, illusions-
that’s when, in the thick of depression, Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 40 – Personal Grudge

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 40 - Personal Grudge Universe, you hold a personal grudge against me.
Everything in my life feels planned-
not by chance, but by intent disguised as luck.
I arrive at the wrong time, the wrong place,
as if each moment were plotted by a hand Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 38 – Recognition

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 38 - Recognition Who am I-
meaning and all?
Where do I stand
without ground or sky,
god or companion? Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 33 – Character

My house is built without electricity,
plumbing, or comfort.
Character is one such thing
that even if a man has no job,
even if he is reduced to
chasing houseflies Read more from here...
