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.

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Thursday, August 31

TOP TEN NUMBERS NEVER ADD UP NO MATTER THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS










#1: making absolute/most of abstract least - trained to/feel like lesser than
#2: identity built/off dollars spent, off dollars/known, off dollars waste
#3: scribbling gibberish/to keep the failure demons/from conquering heart
#4: I am idiot/- beautiful, ridiculous,/perfect idiot
#5: finance is foreign/language - I'm learning slowly/but not that fluent
#6: the Shit Talk of Earth/Folk is my native language/easily spoken
#7: never understood/numbers; never understood/civilized abstracts
#8: give me the perfect/chaos of woods, rust, mud, river,/decay, abandon
#9: wild and wonderful/Greater Appalachian free/bird psychology
#10: when I die, numbers/won't change - still just one useless/halfway-feral fuck

TOP TEN ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW BULLET POINTS










#1: t0t4l & c0mpl3t3/d1ss4t1sf4ct10n w1th l1f3/SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING

#2: n0 4ss, n0 l4Vght3r/n0 c0mr4d3s t0 cr0wd 4r0Vnd/& c0nsp1r3 pl34sVr3
#3: SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING!/th1s l1f3 1s w0rk, Vnt1l d34th/(h0p3fVllY d3bt-fr33)
#4: t00 s1mpl3 t0 th1nk/4s c0mpl3x 4s p0l1t1cs/g4m3 0f 0ff1c3 ch41rs
#5: st3r1l1z3d wh1t3n3ss/cr33ps 1n cl0ser, wh1sp3r1ng/1ts f4ls3 pr0m1s3s
#6: "table that for now"/m33t1ngs 34t 4w4y th3 d4z3/d4ys 4t3 4w4y f4st
#7: 1f pr3m0n1t10n/0f d34th, h0p3 l4st h34rd w0rds 41n't/SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING!
#8: br41n c4lcVl4t1ng/0bl1g4t10ns wh1l3 h34rt f33ls/th3 d4t4 1s wr0ng
#9: SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING!/w3ll-tr41n3d br41n 3xpl41ns - r3fr41ns/SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING!
#10: bl00d d0n't w4nn4 k33p/c1rcVl4t1ng w4st3fVlly/SHUT UP! KEEP WORKING!

TOP TEN "BE A SIMPLE KIND OF MAN" MEDITATIONS










#1: deeply in need of/forest bath - smell too much like/civilization
#2: exit interview/with squawking mockingbirds at/edge of developed
#3: humane feet silenced/by lack of shoes allows for/feeling each step true
#4: naked in nature/afraid of manmade laws more than/feral predators
#5: most dangerous force/in nature remains people/- our own worst devil
#6: decompress myself/to symphony of insects,/birds, frogs, plus unknowns
#7: even out here (though)/distant buzz of machines from/sky, rail, or highway
#8: resisting "resource"/thinking single breath at a/time - simplify mind
#9: "simple" as insult/- programmed by culture to think/complicated's good
#10: culture is poison/unless fermented with full/feral biosphere

V1 MVCH0S DVDS D3...

vi muchos DVDs de
pelea de gallos en
el mercado de pulgas

G3TT1NG T0 W0RK 4T SVNR1S3...

getting to work at sunrise,
before all the assholes have
arisen, arrived, assailed

DR34MS 0F CVST0M C04CH L1F3STYL3...

dreams of custom coach lifestyle
replaced by compound truths and
dilapidated campers

Wednesday, August 30

Tuesday, August 29

SVRV31LL4NC3 3Y3B4LLS 3ND3D...

surveillance eyeballs ended
up not being like sci-fi
flicks threatened; the future sucks

TR41N3D FR0M V3RY 34RLY 4G3...

trained from very early age
to follow pre-scripted path
because them carrots look good

Sunday, August 27