RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Wednesday, January 14

TOP TEN TRASH BARREL LIFE HACKS

#1: trash barrel life hack/ - burn your useless diploma/gilded with promise
#2: trash barrel life hack/ - in real life true apple mack/secure empty trash
#3: trash barrel life hack/ - download all your data to/8 gig flash drives - burn
#4: trash barrel life hack/ - burnt plastic dioxin doxx/surrounding cyborgs
#5: trash barrel life hack/ - incinerating items/incriminating
#6: trash barrel life hack/ - sensitive information/transformed to grey ash
#7: trash barrel life hack/ - ash pile collections require/less library space
#8: trash barrel life hack/ - missing manuscripts not “missed”/necessarily
#9: trash barrel life hack/ - heat released through destruction/of records warms heart
#10: trash barrel life hack/ - climb into burning barrel/ - immolate your “self”

TOP TEN FURTHER GOTHIC FUTURISM THESES

#1: fVrth3r 10n1c/tr34t1s3s r4mm3llz33 k3y/c33s thrV tw1n r4v3nz
#2: n4m3 th3m l0v3 & h4t3/m3m0r13z & th0Vghtz - l0st-f0Vnd/tr1b3z 0f 1mb3c1l3
#3: w1ld styl3z sVrv1v4l/1nst1nktz h0n3d 0ff r4w qV4rtz r0kkz/st4ck3d 4z 4lt4r p34c3
#4: 4lph4b3t r3v0ltz/4g41nst 1nst1tVt10n4l/1zm l4ngV4g3 pr1s0nz
#5: f4ls3 1nf1n1t1/4ss4ss1n4t10nz pr3pp3d pl4nn3d/s3l3x3cVt3d
#6: f0rc3d 0rd3rz 0n 34RF/d0n’t m4tch 34RF r0t4t10n4l/4nt1-gr4v1t4s
#7: w1ld styl3z f0r3v3r/hVm4n3 styl3z t00 l1m1t3d/d3-c1ph3r c1ph3r
#8: y0V c4n’t d3-c1ph3r/1-s3lf-l0rd-4m-m4st3r 34RF/pl4n3t r0kk w1ld styl3
#9: w1th1n 34ch 0f Vs/1s fVtVr1st1c b34st f00l/0f f3r4l l4ngV4g3
#10: m1cr0-p1ct0gr4phz/3mb3dd3d 1n n33dl3 p01ntz/sh00t1ng Vp fVtVr3z

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TOP TEN DIRT-GOD BODY ROCKS

#1: dirt-god earth bod burnt/by poke-prod philosophies/meritocracies
#2: dirt-god grimeface hides/behind bocephus beard built/one year at a time
#3: dirt-god chicken scratch/so-ing needles india/ink tattoo scribbles
#4: dirt-god right fist got/sharpie swords many colors/chopping surfaces
#5: dirt-god left fist holds/white trash quartz energy bless/wizard mineral
#6: dirt-god gut got fool/off pickle jar dumpster kraut/plus “for quick sale” shrooms
#7: dirt-god heart pumps thick/caveman molecule-laced blood/thru nomadic veins
#8: dirt-god mind fogged out/but stays sharp stays hacking at/external hacking
#9: dirt-god scripture carved/into white birch bark back where/fine folks is afraid
#10: dirt-god baptism/bremo bluff csx yard/milepost 69

Tuesday, January 13

TOP TEN PICS OF POCS PLAYING TOGETHER AS KIDS NO WORRIES

#1: WHITE GUY EXPOSES/RACISMS MOST CLEVERLY/on the internet
#2: PRIVILEGE EXPLAINED/IN SEVEN MIND-BLOWING STEPS/on the internet
#3: HASHTAGS ACTIVATE/MANCHURIAN CANDIDATES/on the internet
#4: LOGIC ONE-OH-ONE/IMPACT FONT CHECKMATE MASTERS/on the internet
#5: SELF-CARE FOR JUST US/WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE MENTAL/on the internet
#6: GUY FAWKES ANON MASKS/AMASS IN FOLLOWER PACKS/on the internet
#7: PHOTOSHOP PROPHETS/DROPPIN’ TOPICAL KNOWLEDGE/on the internet
#8: LET’S CHANGE WORLD ONE LIKE/BUTTON FAVSTAR ATTA TIME/on the internet
#9: SHARE RE-SHARE INCREASE/NUMBERS GROW EGO DIGITS/on the internet
#10: IF I RECEIVE ONE/MILLION CLICKS I’LL NEVER DIE/on the internet

TOP TEN MACHO MEN SAVAGING PROMOTIONAL LIFE

#1: macho man savage/flying elbow drop off top/hot gym coke machine
#2: flair open-nosed coke/vacuum adrenaline blood/pumping universe
#3: wizard hairs bleached blonde/by sun & salt from constant/ocean baptism
#4: the madness courses/thru mountain peak thru rivers/thru ocean thru me
#5: oooh yeah - eye have seen/your trimbeard clipheaded world/ - it is false madness
#6: false madness is forced/madness repeating mistakes/until they make cents
#7: choosing to dis cent/dis dollar embrace madness/going deep off-grid
#8: pomp & circumstance/surrounding this existence/double axe handles
#9: in void is virtue/wisdom & the Way exist/nothingness spirit
#10: embracing madness/universal champion/heavy weight carried

TOP TEN LESSONS OF FVCK WORDS

#1: FVCK being poet/irrelevant language-based/pervert predator
#2: FVCK being writer/hacking weak-assed messages/into freed lances
#3: crow says “FVCK poet/ - rather make caw of the wild/life’s reality”
#4: red-shouldered hawk says/”FVCK writer - stalk racing rats/with razor talons”
#5: shallow woods red fox/says “FVCK poet - wild hisses/for moons not pages”
#6: white trash quartz says “FVCK/writer - pressure makes better/points far under ground”
#7: slate says “FVCK poet/ - unearth planet rock don’t stop/the mind-body rot”
#8: empty creekbed says/”FVCK writer - sanctimonies/of limited flows”
#9: stream says “FVCK poet/ - no acknowledgement of source/forcing currents up”
#10: trapped raven says “FVCK/writer - attaching want-cords/to what should be wild”

Monday, January 12

TOP TEN CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE EARTH

#1: stay busy building/intricate mythologies/with cultural scraps
#2: peace meal haphazard/”junk” yard hardscrabble altars/in all directions
#3: culture police still/issuing cease & desist/NO AUTHORITY
#4: EYE recognize no/border no state no heaven/no dollar bill god
#5: still confined within/pyramid’s labyrinthine/psychic slavery
#6: my work is to “work”/sell the angle of being/productive while not
#7: one day world’s facade/of abstract wealth will wobble/topple be rubble
#8: then (as now) EYE-WILL/pick thru civilized scraps - search/for survival arts
#9: decorate my death/with whatever chills the pain/make steal create art
#10: art of survival/fighting against demons both/native & foreign

Saturday, January 10

TOP TEN MEMORIES OF SS VA

#1: solitary work/of forever ‘sploding mind/what which won’t shut up
#2: stabbing shard haiku/poking at peace & quiet/fetal quilt cuddle
#3: survival depends/upon wood for warmth - plants for/sustenance - plus sun
#4: born under bad sign/4 shooting stars made Xes/as I crowned - “what’s up?”
#5: born king of paupers/born pimp of borrowed kingdoms/born half-fucking dead
#6: slow molasses nights/half-a-hydrocodone &/curl up on dog couch
#7: I hear the kraftwerk/in the faucet’s slow trickle/to keep from freezing
#8: deep freezes kill fleas/ticks minor pests but spring with/warm rains brings them back
#9: mongrel mutt begging/to go outside only to/bark to come back in
#10: “mongrel mutt” is me/mud-faced mix-up left outside/barking to get in

Friday, January 9

TOP TEN FAMILY-ORIENTED BUT NOT ORIENTAL INFLUENCES

#1: Icky-You was right/all this bullshit is bullshit/need soft lips on dick
#2: dull monastery/of monotony - routines/repeat until death
#3: Han-Shan knew the deal/fuck these complicated ways/wild out with the trees
#4: cardboard beggars eat/better than dollar-wolves at/right intersection
#5: Du Fu knew the deal/ink scribbles scar earth’s psyche/way deeper than fists
#6: daydreaming about/Du Fu & Li Bai scratching/verse to each other
#7: Meister Basho lived/the roaming poetic path/throwing hokku chops
#8: his most important/poems given to frogs ponds/trees clouds deaf people
#9: will Raven Mack get/it right - disappear from this/blinding fog to live?
#10: bright lights of progress/mislead us out of the woods/into ego traps

Thursday, January 8

TOP TEN PSYCHIC TV CHAMPIONS OF PARTS UNKNOWN

#1: The Grappler wrestles/with right-wrong each nightly fight/ - that’s whymasks are worn
#2: The Assassin knows/his purpose is cold-blooded/ - that’s why masks are worn
#3: The Destroyer hears/foreign curses constantly/ - that’s why masks are worn
#4: The Spoiler struggles/with not knowing how it ends/ - that’s why masks are worn
#5: El Santo protects/a million lost souls exposed/ - that’s why masks are worn
#6: Love Machine's heel heart/loves beyond statute's limit/ - that's why masks are worn
#7: The American/Dragon has much syllable/ - that’s why masks are worn
#8: The Masked Superstar/works intelligence’s marks/ - that’s why masks are worn
#9: Dr. Wagner Jr.'s/degree's in pain management/ - that's why masks are worn
#10: La Parka works for/pinches gringos pendejos/ - that’s why masks are worn

Wednesday, January 7

TOP TEN REVOLUTIONARY NEW BRAIN WASHES

#1: psychic eugenics/cleansing ethnic influence/from mentalities
#2: 7 habits of/highly effective people/selective babble
#3: tower of babel’s/schizophrenic symphony/too hard to handle
#4: hard to sell snake oil/to so many tongues so sales pitch/needs to speak “freedom”
#5: freedom from “nonsense”/of non-“traditional” sources/sterilized forces
#6: globalized buzzards/digital predator drones/new colonials
#7: colonization/of mind frame - sterilized snake/venom brain vaccines
#8: slither my finger/scrolling thru ouroboros/text oral boroughs
#9: big data stripping/minds like junkies do copper/or mountains & coal
#10: we are nothing more/than exploitable resource/raw human resource

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Tuesday, January 6

TOP TEN BRIDGES THAT ARE NOW OVER (RIVERS)

#1: Nasreddin Shifflett/simplistic mountain mystic/doubting man’s wisdom
#2: he can still see how/river once was twisted thru/humane linguistics
#3: y’all lost it - mountain/peaks had points but y’all missed it/stripped them to nothing
#4: lusting after this/or that, big & fat off milk/skim & honey trap
#5: Nasreddin Shifflett/rides Harley sitting backwards/speaking free act words
#6: motivational/David Mann posters hanging/from cumulus clouds
#7: accumulating/feral thought freestyle verses/drunk off universe
#8: Nas Shifflett idle/scribbler of wild words after/conference with birds
#9: weak flows hide behind/egos, but river rustle/shows how to let go
#10: arm leg leg arm head/left behind once (or more) dead/blood red clay mud bed

Monday, January 5

TOP TEN THE RESOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

#1: USA kayfabe/pretending all is OK/keep moving along
#2: revising CV/for jobs I’ll never hear back/hope on life support
#3: life on dream support/dreams became anxious nightmares/ain’t slept in decade
#4: tossing & turning/nowhere - bossing & burning/no thing - stay idle
#5: idle atrophy/of heart pumping something short of/warm blood - igneous
#6: new year brings false hope/fresh calendar boxes lack/cut-off notices
#7: the more that nothing/changes the more horrible/forced status quo feels
#8: status quo static/buzzing thru my brain makes for/heavy sadness fog
#9: sadness sinks down to/heart - literal depression/of spirit southbound
#10: interwebz-TVs/keeps refreshing cornfeed flow/chomping with dead eyes