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.

Tuesday, June 30

"by the power of greyskull"
I often think while lifting
thrift store weights in *studio*

Monday, June 29

reflections and deceptions
and sensory perceptions
distorting essence as self

Sunday, June 28

Wilhelm Reich's orgone theories
practiced haphazardly in
field gone to energy seed

Saturday, June 27

R.I.P. DJ Screw June 27th Megamix

Because it is June 27th, which is unofficially DJ Screw day, here is a megamix of a bunch of crap off of Screw tapes that I love more just a little bit than all the other crap on DJ Screw tapes. I will still talk a motherfucker's ear off about how Screw was ahead of his time, still so, and a heavily underrated influence not just on hip hop but pop music. So here is:

What is on this: intro/roller skates/crossroads/five minutes of funk/represent the south/recline & shine/sunny dayz/smoke on/world of mine/running the underground/groovin' on a sunday/eazy does it/every year/time/public enemy/posse on broadway/steppin out/loves gonna get you/be thankful.../codeine fiend flow/purple stuff/country rap tune/knockin' pictures off the wall
windows to forgotten worlds
which once were more important
than all else for somebody

Friday, June 26

some folks simulate rain on
tin roof for contemplative
purposes; I’m just country

Thursday, June 25

properly hand-prepared fried
chicken of traditional
southern value has been lost

Wednesday, June 24

extension cords run thousands
of miles between nomadic
encampments - lone power source

Tuesday, June 23

concrete jesus hovering
over decayed carcasses
buried with ornate markers

Monday, June 22

satellite dishes from the
decades decorate our home
with corporate detritus

Sunday, June 21

second-story brass bed still
remains a left-behind doll's
resting space, eyes staring out

Saturday, June 20

Friday, June 19

Creepy the blue mongrel horse
not necessarily for
sale so much as watching all

Thursday, June 18

Supersize Sonnet #2


Thanks to Mark at Optipop, we did second freestyle sonnet video, which will eventually be the full 15 sonnets of a heroic crown. WE GONNA RUN OUT OF COOL PICNIC TABLES. Anyways, building up to the official (lol "official") release of the first two freestyle sonnet books - Shakespeare Greenheart and Nasreddin Shifflett, I set up a Facebook event page, which is not a real event in the sense you all have to physically be there together (though that might be chill, or creepy), so invite yourself.
physical spikes directing
mystical energies round
rehabilitated land

Wednesday, June 17

"there is no god but god" can
be translated a thousand
different ways, with same hope

Tuesday, June 16

the overwhelming sadness
of how life is too fucking
real, ignored through distractions

Monday, June 15

Power of Lounge uprooting
false Order of Civilized
Gridlock through underground means

Sunday, June 14

Cumberland Restaurant's red
neon buzzed over my folks when
they was still just teenagers

Saturday, June 13

strong-willed personalities
sapped sometimes by sensory
sensitivity - stay strong

Friday, June 12

trapped on earth below the clouds,
we learn to make the best jokes
we can from this suffering

Thursday, June 11

man's abandoned master plans
reclaimed quickly by gentle
gaia’s caressing tendrils

Supersize Sonnet #1


Video freestyle sonnet Supersize Sonnet #1: My friend and occasional co-conspirator Mark Edwards (Optipop) is doing a one-minute video every day for a year. He did one of me writing a freestyle sonnet on a big piece of posterboard at a picnic table. It makes me self-aware, like perhaps I'm closer to one of those freaky hermit dudes who fills up an apartment with twisted writings than I realized. And yet I'm also that weird capitalist self-aware enough to realize nobody else is aware of me. So I am like an outsider, who is an insider, but still an outsider, but not outside nearly enough. Or something.

Wednesday, June 10

the slow accumuluated
madness of overhead wires
is mind-boggling (and scrambling)