M1L1T4R1ST1C L1N3-VPS...

militaristic line-ups

pretending to serve and protect,

hiding behind failed promise

1 F33L S0RRY F0R P0L1C3...

I feel sorry for police

dogs because they're already

domesticated... why more?

F41LVR3 D3M0NS STR1K3 W1TH0VT...

failure demons strike without

warning, metaphysical

left tackle blown assignment

BR0K3N B4CKB04RD L1F3STYL3S W1TH...

broken backboard lifestyles with

red, white, and blue nets, never

noticing the irony

R04D 4H34D C0MPL1C4T3D...

road ahead complicated

as fuck, lacking a roadmap,

but fuck it - no turning back

going light...

Site will become sort of active again on Monday, with return to gambleraku/homepix, and probably a music-related old school style thing (the return of J.J. Krupert?) in November. But also I just got a new volunteer job in Dirtrock, so I'm going to be spending most of my time - both in real life and in digital realm - there. You can follow along through patreon. I have no idea what this will mean, nor do I really give a fuck to try and explain it, because if I explain it, that'll only mess up the trip. Kind of like we are driving long distance, east basically, with rough directions but just wanna wander, no use of GPS. But if we keep checking the GPS in our robot phone, it tells us we're fucking up, going the wrong way (because not direct enough, like a machine), and then we start to question ourselves. I am done with questioning myself. You can come along for the ride or not. #FYIFYFMF forever.

Hit up the PATREON or don't.
You have free will (though it might be your gut bacteria tbh).

Here is a video...

Peace!
Raven Mack

this morning would've been 25-man metaphysics scheduled post, so I had that shit in mind as my site stayed dark. updating all these stupid projects I come up with is not easy, but also I enjoy it and expect nothing. so I'll probably return to pics & short poem again this week, maybe, at slower schedule, but a lot of projects hung in the middle or ongoing which will never actually find an end point are just gonna stop (like the metaphysics for EPL teams thing).
it feels stupid to update a fuckin' obscure ass website with such self-important status of "what I'm doing moving forward" but fuck it, I know ppl see this page and check it when the link pops up on their social media feeds. but though I'm sharing here, I can't share openly. there's been things going on for years, with new things added all the time, that I can't actually share openly bc wrong ppl might read it or take it wrong way or this or that. that's no longer being able to express yourself - instead that's just going thru the pretend motions of expression in act of building ego. that's basically what most of the internet is now at this point - personal branding, which is good enabling term for building ego off data.
anyways, much love to those that do come here looking to keep up with me, and pray for your boy. dirtgods are resilient as fuck, but microbacterial imams know and teach us all well, no one survives as far on their own.

if you're one of the four people that might be like "damn, I liked those 25-man metaphysics soccer things" don't fret, been working on one for World Cup which I'll self-publish some point early next year. it's already pretty dope.

and also, this is not a need for you to reach out, worrying, being like "what's up brvh?" I got this. I'm good. reach out in your world though, bc it's a ton of people suffering life catastrophes in silence bc they're afraid of the repercussions of someone knowing, or are just barely holding it together to get thru the constraints already put on their life by financial obligations. if you worried, reach out around you, bc you should be worried. a lot of ppl out here struggling.

25-Man Metaphysical Roster: Arsenal F.C.

[an Arsenal supporter lolol, it's like english version of my dad's smoking buddies]

[25-Man Metaphysical Roster is a football dork methodology meant to establish a listing of players who have been most active for English Premier League teams in their past 100 non-friendly matches. Essentially, it is calculated by minutes played, but weighted towards most recent games. The end result is a listing of the 25 players in a team’s recent history who have had the largest hand on their metaphysical sporting trajectory. The English Premier League was chosen because it is the highest level of football played in an English speaking country, and I speak English. Also, it is what comes on TV here in the USA, where I fucking live. And yet still I should clarify I hate English, and also America. Thus maybe I hate myself. Should I not fail in maintaining my unpaid deadline, a new 25-Man Metaphysical Roster will appear on the 1st and 15th of every month.]

Haha, I failed but I’m sneaking the old ones in for historical record. Funny looking at this now because it is uselessly out of date. RIP Arson Wanger. No blurbs, because lazy in the past and catching up BUT GUESS WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN FUCKING CRAZY DON'T JUDGE ME.

#1: Nacho Monreal

#2: Alexis Sanchez

#3: Mesut Ozil

#4: Hector Bellerin

#5: Laurent Koscielny

#6: Petr Cech

#7: Granit Xhaka

#8: Shkodran Mustafi

#9: Aaron Ramsey

#10: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

#11: Olivier Giroud

#12: Theo Walcott

#13: Gabriel Paulista

#14: Alex Iwobi

#15: Francis Coquelin

#16: Rob Holding

#17: Danny Welbeck

#18: Mohamed Elneny

#19: David Ospina

#20: Kieran Gibbs

#21: Per Mertesacker

#22: Lucas Perez

#23: Sead Kolasinac

#24: Ainsley Maitland-Niles

#25: Alexandre Lacazette

going dark...

website will not be updating any more 

for the foreseeable future 

peace 

- raven mack

M0RN1NG SVNR1S3 H0R1Z0N...

morning sunrise horizon

promises another day

to soak up experience

TH3 L4VGHT3R 0F M1L1T4NT...

the laughter of militant

police as they recover

from tear gassing the public

TRY1NG T0 ST1LL S33 TH3 SKY...

trying to still see the sky

while these madmen keep stacking

bricks higher all around me

4 TH0VS4ND T1NY BVDDH4S...

a thousand tiny Buddhas

manufactured in China

scattered across five acres

Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 13: KAISEI (8-5)

("Dohyo's edge" starring River Phoenix)

Brazil is known for 

jiu-jitsu, not sumo, but 

along come Kaisei 

previous basho, suffered 

demotion to juryo tier 

but big Brazilian 

got back to makuuchi 

in time for Aki 

day thirteen, he was looking 

to get his kachikoshi 

Ikioi got him 

turned the wrong way, stumbling, and 

it didn’t look good 

Kaisei recovered before 

falling, still at dohyo edge 

Ikioi charged in, 

elimination in mind… 

it didn’t look good 

somehow Kaisei recovered 

again, with slight sideways shift 

as Ikioi hit, 

Kaisei caught him by shoulder, 

carried momentum 

Kaisei’s recovery now 

complete, kachikoshi made 

no return down to 

juryo next month for Kaisei, 

position maintained 

low center of gravity - 

metaphysical level 

MVLL31N B33N MY M1R4CL3...

mullein been my miracle

ear; like myself, it loves old

railroad tracks and riverbanks

Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 12: CHIYOSHOMA (5-7)

(the knockout)

Chiyoshoma and 

Nishikigi fell at same 

time in sumo bout 

looked pretty obvious that 

Chiyoshoma had won though 

but ref pointed the 

other way, causing side judge 

consultation thing 

strangely though, Chiyoshoma 

was not declared the winner 

instead, do-over 

was done, to break the untied tie 

(sumo is sketchy) 

Chiyoshoma wasted no 

second chance at victory 

Nishikigi got 

knocked the fuck out split second - 

long enough to fall 

[slow motion repeats of both 
men falling are transcendent] 

D3W3Y D3C1M4L CLVST3RS...

Dewey decimal clusters

scribbled like the cryptic codes

they are, in thin blood red ink

M0LT3N 34RTH C0R3 SH4P3D 1NT0...

molten Earth core shaped into

steel sticks to help transport rats

back and forth with urgency

Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 11: ONOSHO (7-4)

(Onosho rag-dolled for third straight L)

Onosho - after 

eleven days - stood at door 

of strong arrival 

no one since Hakuho went 

kachikoshi first three times 

(a fellow sumo 

enthusiast informed me 

of this on twitter) 

Aki basho seemed like it 

could belong to Onosho 

but eight wins appeared 

more difficult a psychic 

hurdle than he thought 

losses day nine and ten left 

Onosho looking shaken 

Tochiozan was 

his opponent this day - what 

should be easy win 

but Onosho never got 

off the mark, smacked back, stifled 

no forward progress 

after his initial launch, 

young Onosho lost 

pushed out by Tochiozan 

into dohyo-side front row 

Onosho looked back, 

flustered melancholy look - 

psychic weight heavy 

“how to turn this energy 

back to something positive?” 

big boy momentum 

moves in metaphysical 

ways as well as “real” 

Onosho stood in that door, 
but was not ready to cross yet 

C1ND3RBL0CK CLVB 0N SVND4Y...

cinderblock club on Sunday

morning back road Maryland -

scattered trash and bouncer's chair

PR0P3R P4P3RW0RK 0NC3 W4S...

proper paperwork once was

required for pigs to listen;

now they seize it from the sky

P4R4S1T1C V1N3 CR34T3S...

parasitic vine creates

vein up white oak spine, thousand

spidery tendrils clutching

B4CKW00DS M3T4L S1GNS P3RF3CT...

backwoods metal signs perfect

for making buckshot patterns

while suffering mundane life

Aki Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 10: ISHIURA (2-8)

(Ishiura lookin' silly out here)

Ishiura, for 

the love of the forest gods, 

please eat your fish broth 

your miniscule missile launch 

style has become comedic 

other rikishi 

predict its arrival, so 

please eat your fish broth 

fill your chankonabe bowl 

up with seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths 

wrestling under shoot 

name, driving your McLaren - 

the novelty’s gone 

less than a year removed from 

your fighting spirit award 

something is missing - 

and perhaps added stones will 

help uncover it 

so Ishiura, please eat 
your chankonabe with gust