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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, authority, Backbone, care-under-cost, depth, endurance, eternal-labor, hierarchy-of-life, Integrity, labor, masculinity, motion, parent, philosophy, real-work, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88, Sacrifice, shepherd, solitude, survival, tangible-life, teacher, unsentimental, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility Responsibility: parent → teacher → shepherd.
Depth of life: shepherd → teacher → parent.
The shepherd owns the widest sky of silence,
walks miles before sunrise,
bathes in ice rivers, 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 – The Snakes Are Awake

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aesthetic rigor, AI, Alienation, artificial intelligence, Chapter 85, cognitive dissonance, confession, contemporary poetry, cultural-critique, Detachment, digital judgment, emotional honesty, emotional intensity, erotic economy, Existentialism, human condition, human desire, hyper-awareness, hyperrealism, Introspection, jungle metaphor, literary realism, loneliness, longing, male perspective, masculinity, mirror, misogyny, modern despair, mortality, narrative poem, nihilism, philosophical poetry, poverty, Psychological realism, raw truth, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85, self-reflection, Selfhood, shame, snakes, social alienation, social critique, social hierarchy, societal expectation, suffering, symbolic imagery, The Snakes Are Awake, transactional relationships, urban isolation, vulnerability, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 - The Snakes Are Awake Awake-
snakes awake.
Job theirs:
coiled in jungle dark,
hidden behind girl-ears, 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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Proof

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, aftermath, Agency, austerity, clarity, consciousness, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Integrity, Isolation, persistence, proof, realism, record, recurrence, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, Selfhood, survival, testimony, trauma, witness.

Title - Proof I kept torturing myself-
a revenge for which
I did not allow myself to live,
or to ask for the right to be human.
What happened, happened. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 40 – Personal Grudge

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, accusation, Agency, authorship, conflict, confrontation, consciousness, cosmos, Defiance, endurance, fate, identity, injustice, mythic, narrative, Personal Grudge, presence, reality, Refusal, resilience, Resistance, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 40, Selfhood, solitude, stance, struggle, witness.

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...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 24 – From there I See You

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR Tagged: action, alone, Bore, Contracts, Crisis, Detachment, dumb, Foolish, From there I See You, gravity, identity, Internal, Judging, Losing, Path, Position, Projection, Reference, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 24, Seeing, Self, share, Static, suffering, Unknowable, Unseen, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 24 - From there I See You
From there, I see you.
I even ask questions,
appoint answers to them,
judge in advance.
I have spared all my faces to get noticed, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 22 – Beauty

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR Tagged: athlete, beauty, Buddha, character, Classroom, Coders, desire, discipline, dog, existential, Frooti, intent, loss, love, mann, Mask, Merged, Method, philosopher, photon, Purity, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 22, Simple, Synchronization, time, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 22 - Beauty
This is not Instagram poetry.
It is not workshop poetry.
It is closer to existential field notes-
written by someone counting steps, not applause.
Ronie Dinosaur walking Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 15 – Metacognition

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absurdity, Apotheosis, Autopsy, character, Contempt, CosmicBlame., DystopianRomance, endurance, Existentialism, FinalFlaw, Forging, GenderDynamics, God, grief, Heartbreak, Hierarchy, HumanCondition, humiliation, InnerConflict, Integrity, Isolation, KingdomRuins, loneliness, longing, love, man, masculinity, Metacognition, mirror, Monologue, NakedEquality, PainSculpted, PerformanceAnxiety, PhilosophicalMaturity, Reciprocity, RonieDinosaur, SelfAwareness, SelfForgedGod, shame, Shiva, ShivaArchetype, SocietalRoles, solipsism, solitude, suffering, TestedMan, TheHighestBlade, TransactionalLove, trauma, UnconditionalLove, undeniable, UnmetNeed, vulnerability, witness, woman.

Ronie Dinosaur - Chapter 15: Metacognition My mind is trying to solve my own mind
and still can’t name the crime-
what for, what’s the big deal.
I have walked the entire distance
from blank confusion Read more from here...

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