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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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 5 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, absence-as-presence, accountability, blame, care-without-reward, consent, consequence, deprivation, dignity, emotional-austerity, endurance, ethical-poverty, Ethics, existential-accounting, Existentialism, Human Cost, hunger, hunger-metaphor, Integrity, internal-law, invisibility, Isolation, loneliness, loss, masculinity, moral choice, moral-cost, moral-hunger, negative-space, poverty, quiet-tragedy, Refusal, refusal-politics, refusal-to-consume, restraint, restraint-vs-desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92, RonieDinosaur, scarcity, self-denial, self-governance, silence, society, solitude, starvation, time, unmet-need, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty The point is—
a man must eat when it is served.
Yet I carry this blame: I did not eat,
though the world knew my hunger—
those who fed me, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, anti-sentimental, atheism, Body, controlled grief, darkness, deprivation, despair without rage, emotional emptiness, emotional-austerity, emptiness as form, entropy, Envelope, existential poetry, existential realism, free will, godlessness, human condition, identity erosion, inner exile, inner-void, Introspection, introspective literature, inward collapse, Isolation, literary realism, loneliness, loss of meaning, melancholy, metaphysical imagery, minimalism, modern existentialism, modern verse, nihilism, non-hopeful poetry, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poetry, post-romantic disillusionment, psychological depth, quiet suffering, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89, sealed fate, sealed silence, silence, silence as metaphor, solitude, stoic despair, symbolic poetry, time and decay.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope They emptied my heart-
looted every last coin of light.
What remains to give?
How does one love
from a flask shattered beyond repair? Read more from here...

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Why Not Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment trauma, Agency, attachment, Betrayal, boundaries, consent, desire vs respect, dignity, emotional abandonment, emotional labor, endurance, existential questioning, fairness, friendship breakup, Heartbreak, human condition, incompatibility, inner conflict, Isolation, loneliness, longing, loss, male vulnerability, melancholia, memory, misalignment, moral conflict, moral solitude, patience, philosophical poetry, reflective verse, refusal-to-beg, rejection, restraint, restraint over desire, self-respect, self-withdrawal, shame, silence, slow burn, solitude, time, unanswered questions, unrequited-love, why not me, withdrawal.

Title - Why Not Me? With the heart that called you friend,
I asked you to be my girl.
You said no-straight, no pretend.
What’s a guy supposed to do in this world?
Should I stand there, beg, and plead, Read more from here...

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Defeat’s Quiet Victory

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-hero, anti-victory, Defeat, defiance-without-hope, dignity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential poetry, inner-resistance, Integrity, lived-philosophy, loss-and-continuance, masculine-vulnerability, moral-refusal, persistence, poverty-with-dignity, quiet, quiet defiance, quiet rebellion, refusal-to-conform, resilience, scars, silence, stoicism, survival, victory, walking forward, wounded-strength.

Defeat’s Quiet Victory When so many wounds have been inflicted deep,
how does the wounded still claim victory?
They won the battles, loud and clear,
while he lost the war, year after year.
Yet Ronie is a hard-luck man with style- 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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Music

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: ai-era, Alienation, authenticity, creative-burnout, creative-isolation, cultural-critique, despair, emotional-brutality, Existentialism, identity, inner voice, loneliness, minimalism, modern-art, music-poetry, nihilism, post-romanticism, psychological-poetry, raw expression, self-diagnosis, silence, solitude, suno, suno music, truth-over-comfort, underground-art, unreturned-love.

Title - Music A fortune-real money too-
band drama, studio fights:
that’s what a first album once demanded.
Now it takes five minutes flat.
I already have my pretty little baby Read more from here...

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Nuclear Will

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romanticism, Control, dark spoken word, Defiance, determination, discipline, endurance, existential poetry, human will, industrial tone, inner fire, intensity, lone wolf, merit over status, minimalism, nihilism, Nuclear, psychological depth, resilience, restrained rage, Self-mastery, silence, solitude, stoic will, truth, unbowed spirit, will.

Title - Nuclear Will YOUTUBE VIDEO Food heat, spice heat,
youth’s wild blood-
brain-fire fleeting,
all noise, all flood. Read more from here...

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Job Description

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, clarity, Description, discipline, earned-ground, equality, evolution, existential-work, hunger, Integrity, Job, masculinity, modern-man, moral-labor, post-romantic, refusal-to-beg, resilience, responsibility, restraint, scarcity, self-respect, silence, solitude, truth-telling, walking forward, witness.

Title - Job Description Some herd cattle.
Some teach scholars.
Some raise children.
Some bear witness to the cost
of standing up and speaking truth anyway. Read more from here...

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