The Anti-Binary Reality And Its Invalid Defamers

There exists now in our time a special strain of that same addictive venom against all things free, true, intelligent and decent that had ravaged all the developments of human life since our first infantile reaches out of all-encompassing despotism . . . barreling straight ahead back into its maw.

There exists now a specialized fanatical movement of hurried regression made accessible to the average white American to make every single day overcast with the smog of industry, blaring hypocrisy and velvet religious curtains with which to obscure the real, plain deal signed onto in November of last year.

There exists an urge to destroy the enlightening sunshine of life itself, subtle and bold alike.

There exists a far-sweeping motion of the ghosts of old orders, of sad old people (who situate these old orders as altar pieces) and their sycophant careerist offspring against the destinies of the bright, inquisitive, young and daring.

One uniquely pronounced thorn of the venomous structure of hatred (mind virus) is its rabid obsession with the gender/sex nightmare, of how to possess certain people as property for as long as possible through the coercive inscriptions on their souls and merely optional faculties shaping their impressions that mark them as either an inseminator or a fetus-bearer, or — by happenstance, by the immutable lived details of their own character — a demonic spawn of “god’s” adversary.

I confess that I am quite exhausted with words on gender; with desperate toothless shows of mere outrage against the fascist menace; with refusal to organize sufficiently as needed in armed fashion and become the turn. But I am invigorated still by the tirelessness of the foes, and moreover, I know that this struggle is among the bravest dashes upon its field toward the foe which had slain all previous possibilities, made the field itself and cast the rigged die to set the terms. I know what my caliber is, I know what protects the prongs of hell on Earth and in a sense I know it all to be hopeless. I go on defiant anyway. Il me faut . . .

it is that bravery — that “because I wanted to“, that doing it anyway — that is to inspire the nerve to save ourselves as individuals . . .

. . . vivre ma vie!

In bitter moments such as now: a sort of futile clarity in screaming into the ether, trying to make the basic situation easy to digest, hoping desperately that we might tackle more important shit. Here it is: People simply want to be how they are in their hearts and souls so they are not constantly thinking about killing themselves. Expressing this and politely correcting incorrect references to oneself is not any new tyranny, but an earnest response to lifetimes of microscopic tyranny, at best perpetuated by those unaware.

Let this paragraph ring certain — I desire an honest coming together. I desire the basic good faith of all peoples. I desire for all of us to meet beside the river; for all of us to contemplate the day, say our thanks to our gods [if any], to each other, share a good meal and define each of ourselves on terms that bring understanding — gently bringing that realization that one had simply been mistaken, perhaps slightly prideful, even harsh — opting at that moment for the newly-shown way that is fruitful, kind and constructive. I desire the point at which we all may meet eyes, grin and continue through the sunlight, deconstructing the thorny bramble of old orders, planting in its place the nourishing tree of hearts poured out into the commons of our new and everlasting joys . . . .

but a considerable segment of people here and now have been shaped into ungodly pious monsters, finding a sour, smirking contentment in that longstanding tyranny, knowing those innocents are suffering under its dictates. Knowing they themselves, the oppressors, are carrying on a long tradition of white madness, deriving a sick sense of divine approval in being the lowest, most vile variant of “human”.

Let us keep this particularly unshakable lot oblivious of history as long as possible. Let them relish stupidly in their errors. For we in the know always find our own higher justice in the resolve of those who are simply correct. Who are simply in tune with what is, has been and always will be. The temporary futility of the fight is part of the growing pain.

In the dead eyes of those monsters whose forefathers were seated in the iron sights of Captain John Brown, the Tranny must be killed to truly Kill Freeness, because a happy trans person is far freer than any of the sad lot. Freeness, to the slaver, the cruel parent, must be killed so all are made slaves to White Jesus and his patriarchs, so all within the tiny circle at the top may profit for eternity off the duped labor of uncreative simpletons below, keeping social and economic organs in motion, never daring to cause themselves the growing pains of thinking and acting critically. Only swallowing the subduing shit fed to them.

I could not begin to think of my own caste in the same way these simpletons are trained to think of me, because I could not obsess over myself in the same fanatical ways they do. (I had already been a transphobe before knowing I was trans. I know the mindset too well to be shocked by it.) I grow too nauseous of the same intense shit repeated over and over without interruption. But not for those who never had anything worthwhile in their lives to begin with. Not for those who had discarded the gold-shining promise present in every single life.

We transgender people are, in every day, spoken of like we had fallen from the sky ten years ago, going on to become the greatest plague of Names and Pronouns to ever inconvenience entitled cisgender white people and keep them up at night. To ever be living challenges to the poisonous entitlement to making a cover judgment of a stranger or an acquaintance, either grabbing tits and asses or saying “Hey, bro.”

We have, in truth, not come about any time recent. And furthermore, coming to the part where many of you will begin panicking, our existences as our own persons — not as transgender or cisgender people, but as persons — predate any conception of gender/sex. Even considering the stereotyped image of cave people curiously inspecting genitals and deciding whether or not someone is rapeable, even contemplating the fetishized image of the big-breasted maiden warmly greeting the musclebound war god home with two kids in tow, “Man” and “Woman” did not initialize human existence as two sides of any intrinsic coin of gender, despite whatever prevailing christian delusion about Adam and Eve taking root. We are simply dominated by mythos and its violence. It does not erase the fact that the earliest forms of life were completely unsexed and unsexable.

But this does not stir the considerations of fervent christians rooting their entire worldview in natalism, establishing a casual obsession with other people’s fertility as the instrument of “god’s will.” At different times of famine, war, devastation, starvation and death, the notion of The Child was imprinted on the christian natalist psyche as the seed of “god’s will.” But never in the history of the construction of the child was the life centered within that child caste ever allowed to create itself on its own terms. (A satanic act.) The child was never made to be to break out of its caste, both as child and as its coercive sex lending itself to a coercive gender, charting its own vital and creative course. It was birthed and intended as a merely blood-related slave, enslaved to “god’s will” as enforced by family and society.

Mythos is not reality. (Even mythos confirms me in faded ink, or in pages burned by Nazis after the fall of Weimar.) And reality is plain, bare, stoic. There have always been feminine people with penises. Some of them align wholly with the caste of “Woman.” Some align with nothing, or something unnameable coming from their own understanding of themselves. Most were given niche titles and social functions by the earliest proto-societies. Simply glancing at the details of the clergy (Gala) of Inanna, the Mesopotamian Queen of Heaven, is enough to disprove every last Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh enjoyer into the sun instantly.

That alignment, gravitation, inclination, that being so clear and true in someone is itself the confirmation of who one is. Before the advent of bondage, its standard and its metamorphosis, alignment, not genitalia, not secondary sex characteristics, was understood as confirmation.

And then comes Abrahamism — obsession with the outliers of “god’s design.” Obsession with why we are what we are. Obsession with where we go to piss in public. Obsession with how we piss. It is all simultaneous fascination and disgust. Disgust generated from a sheltered black and white internal conception of things that glances at vibrant living matter dancing outside its window, but constantly turning itself away for fear of oneself or one’s child becoming “Like Them.”

“Hey, we can make money harping on about this!”

Ultimately, this obsession is built on The Children, or more specifically, on using children as human shields against reality. The age-old christian tradition of sheltering children from reality and nuance, shooting down honest questions for their sinfulness became the standard for how christian whites bring up future adults. Permanently obscuring and denying, punishing when the truth is unearthed.

These future adults carefully unravel the velvet religious curtains imposed on them in their secretive free time. They simply want information, they want to know the possibilities of things. Simply learning, discovering and understanding outside of the church, the bible, the patriarchal demand is enough to, at best, be shunned. To do anything further is, to the foes of innocence, justification for being killed.

This obsession is also dreadfully fixated on implications of how philosophy of gender will disrupt their extended power over others; how gender relations becoming less tense and wider expressions being more casual would upend the conventional, elementary school wisdom of dual, simplified essences and their heinous relations of punishment for deviation.

The obsession is made with heartbroken parents of trans adults in mind who worship the golden calf of grooming their children with rigid gender roles and of the trauma of the cruel punishment of innocence. The adults want to sculpt their children as refined extensions of themselves, not as sovereign beings with their own agency, as proof toward the hope that the parents’ lives were not simply wasted on praying and being completely willfully stupid, but were in line with “god’s sacred order.”

I want to hone in on the supposedly pious and sinless adults, the “Adult Human Females/Males,” who make the child who simply loves and accepts their trans relative seem like the wisest among any of them. (But of course, cisgender fervor leads one to imagine only the most vile, heinous lies about us and children being reality, when, in fact, a considerable portion of all trans people had experienced abuse as children and could never summon the desire to see that for anyone.)

The adults obsess over transgender women specifically for one or a combination of factors.

For cisgender men:

  1. He hates what he sees: he hates any happiness that does not arise from curb stomping a black man or kidnapping and torturing an undocumented migrant family. He wants to Rape, Rape, Rape me. Because I’m pretty and contented in myself — the latter affecting him most heinously
  2. He is aroused by femininity and androgyny melded into a specific expression. The primal bisexuality inside every living being is thrown before his heart’s court in the shadow of the trans woman’s curves. He makes his secret Grindr account. He lusts for, searches out for the feminine flesh brought to be by self-will behind his ugly wife’s back. He is truly obsessed, concealing his words and deeds, feigning hatred, disgust. But he knows what gets him off better than his wife’s birthday
  3. “He” is not a “He,” and that pain — a pain I’ve known and overcome quite successfully — has summoned a dark costume atop her true, sunshine-laden self that will sadly never be due to stupidity, aversion to true thought and general cuckholdry to the binary

For cisgender women:

  1. She sees someone’s inner nature blossoming into a beautiful exterior; she sees the grace of a self-owning female who happens to have entered the caste out of the other, performing many conventions better than she does. She sees this and is instantly wounded by the knowledge that her days of being the only sought-after princess are numbered in single digits
  2. Her bisexuality for the trans woman is crazed, opportunistic and blood-sucking. In the exact instant that her motives are not sated, she attempts to pummel the woman with insane screeches of “MAN!”
  3. Her vagina speaks in frantic babbles. It tells her that she is the owner of womanhood. She employs every tactic from screaming “Rape!” because a trans woman is using the stall next to her, to passive aggressively policing trans access to womanhood under the guise of tepid “support”, all to try to secure her collapsing fiefdom of beauty

I have zero personal affinity with psychology. It is quite clearly a tool of capitalism to train us into never inconveniencing our would-be overlords. But by its basic analytics of obvious patterns, I am confident in the above stated lists of potential factors per each of the cis binary genders when it comes to unwell considerations of trans existences. These have been boldly verified by me and many others in our years of being what we are. I have interacted with every factor and every combination. I have never required the employment of psychoanalytic tools to confirm these; people often confirm themselves quite obviously.

As I’ve written somewhere before, gender is a language. There are no two languages on Earth that form the only acceptable tongues. It becomes only contextually necessary to speak in simplistic terms of “Men” and “Women” and “Others” because these constructs (conceptual inventions,) like language, were devised by human beings, left to be cemented by the vast cruelties of civilization and its mindset. Left to be a clause in the social contract none consciously sign onto.

Are there only two people in existence? Are there only two emotions, two temperaments, two configurations of a life? Are there only two animals? Are there only two ethnic origins? Dualism is the disease of those who see the shadows of themselves and claim to be “in good company.” Variety, even within the singular shape and color, is inescapable. The dualist would see to it that all forms are broken in half, the halves bound only by complex relations, never allowed the gravitation that makes them entire. They must be divided, and in their division, there is confirmed a petty, meager “whole.” The gears and pistons of “god’s plan.”

We who feel and think find out very quickly that we are ruled and threatened by militant morons who ignore living possibility for dead husks of “divinity.” The struggle of our various siblings whose expressions and self-definitions are beyond any conventional binary is tightly bound up with that of us who find ourselves situated directly within, or on the outer perimeters of, one defined caste; having come into that, flourishing, from the other. We are not different from each other if our personal alignments are different from our coercive scars from genders we have never felt close to and never could.

We then understand our immutable inclinations as the forces of confirmation, no matter what insanity attempts to rule us. We must know, in the dreadful depths of battle, that there are those who care. Authentically open-minded, deserving cisgender people are never surprised to find that everyday transgender people are just like them in all ways beside gender. One does not require to be trans in order to grasp what simply is. Their confirmation, confirmation of us transgender people as people by cisgender people, is not the final goal toward which we strive, but for no “confirmation” to ever be required. For being to simply confirm upon one witnessing. In union with our transgender and cisgender siblings, if there should ever be a genuinely healthy one, we are to inform and give opportunity for betterment — but with the full capacity to defend ourselves with deadly force when absolutely needed.

Patriarchy wants us (worthwhile men included) to always be afraid of the lesser, dominant “men” entering the room and having the final say. Patriarchy wants the child to be permanently traumatized by “Dad.” On the one hand, such “Dads” do not need to live. When one commits himself to cruelty, he has forfeited his life, his decency, his place among the living. On the other hand, we know these “men” to be weak: many can only resort to drinking, drugs, violence, blatant hypocrisy and self-annihilation in the blinding white light of pure despotic strain. They always knew they were wrong, but continue to assert a hollow rightness in being forcefully unreasonable in every way. A self-defense mechanism. “Might makes right, even if you’re embarrassing yourself.”

Every motion out of cisness, or even in mild upset of it, is a blow to patriarchy. We know this because of how fragile cisgender “men” police the gendered being.

If one is coercively assigned “Male” at birth and pursuing manhood, one is almost always sized up as “Not man enough” by unintelligent male peers. But if one is coercively assigned “Male” and pursuing womanhood, one is immediately, reflexively thrown back into the caste of “Man” without a thought given to her not being a man in any way, no matter how much estrogen, operations and or therapy has made her as what she actually is in every sense of being.

We must always emphasize that the patriarchal mindset is necessarily hostile to intelligence, because intelligence and facts (“facts” meaning evident realities such as trans women being women and climate disaster being due to ecocide) are always counter to fascist, paternalist thinking of people in terms of property, duty, punishment, productivity and a certain, streamlined “future.” Intelligent, critical examination will routinely unearth projection, manipulation and bum rushed logic employed to shield the fascists’ exercise of malice. They love to posture as sensible, informed, smirking Chads simply wanting The Children to be “safe” from The Transgenderism, while in the next moment, when casually confronted with facts and realities, they will stumble and mumble their way out of the problem they worked themselves into, doing astonishing mental and verbal acrobatics to deny the obvious.

After frustrated delusion, if not a sensible hearing one out, comes the rage. White patriarchs become more hysterical than they imagine women or minorities being when they are denied, in any measure, their absurd demand for control over others. The simple notion of a literal “god” who is both white and male imbues them with particularly self-justified fury; anything goes if it is interpreted to please the simultaneously merciful and wrathful “god” of Abraham.

This kind of reaction is simply unhealthy and unworthy of power. (What should ever deny this mode of reaction, yet in the hands and contexts of women like me? In that of other downtrodden individuals who would fight beside me? Why should we not be like the patriarchs but with a far better purpose?) At the current rate, the end point of all patriarchal “men” is screaming, wailing suicide, if not the firing wall with all the people who tried to make life better on the trigger-end.

Humankind should not continue stupid, divided, isolated and hostile. People make choices. I did choose to be alive, I did choose to not undo myself. And therefore, in a sense, I both chose and had no choice in being myself in full. For patriarchy, there is no being oneself in full. There is only suffering. Even for the patriarchs. “Rub some dirt in it,” all the nauseating bullshit. There is no room for real emotion, real substance, real fruition and adaptability. Only the same tired Confederacy. Only the same ardently-chased idol of gold. Only the same sour smile at another’s hurt. And then the deathbed.

Would you like to know in simple terms what truly normal people think? “As long as it doesn’t hurt me, I really don’t care. And in that same breath — I am willing to learn.

I feel that if any togetherness is to truly come about in a healthy, sustainable way, we have to come back to this basic center. There has to emerge a practical intolerance for militant stupidity in every sense and every setting. What is its purpose, of speech that questions another’s worthiness of dignity and respect? Is it “just expressing an idea?” Or is it instigating dehumanization? My womanhood is not debatable, nor is it any idea or opinion. It is what you respect, or you never meaningfully engage with me. It is what you shut the fuck up and learn to give due humility to, or you don’t get to express shit to me.

Togetherness… something I loathe and move against… is simultaneously there, sitting in wait, when truly needed. I still see (I see, not believe) a potential to be together as individuals steering so-called “humanity.”

But because of taboo allure, because of that love of allure, because of the love of always having an enemy, we require a conscious, proactive combating of not simply transphobia and wider queerphobia, but the notion of black-and-white reality altogether.

The winds had never once blew in one of two directions. That is my argument proven true. There are winding currents, bracing stiff breezes and sexless atoms whirling and compacting all at once.

Living beings are not different. What is to be done about everything stemming from the trans question? Are we only to go on perpetually with the “go fuck yourself, go get a job and get out of my sight” attitude we dispense upon everything, even when it is impossible for someone like me to be employed and housed? (Is this unemployableness not the spark to a transformative powder keg?) Are we to reconcile with inner and outer, with a healthy consensus arising from obvious yet advanced reasoning? Are we to turn on our neighbors and our friends and family? Are we to simply die and get out of the way for the Musks and Dons of the world to no longer rush out the backdoor, but brazenly have photo ops at the front doors with the bags of wealth that resigned laborers have made?

The turn happens gradually — not in any reformist sense or activist sense. It happens in the exact same manner as in the different contents of the battles of our lineages of tyranny. The times simply change. And all the tyrants want it back how it was, eternally.

Do not let them have their way. Do not be toothless. Do not be a soft target. Ever.

Follow through with how change cements into betterment. Follow through with delivering enlightening portions of insight, or snuffing out poison everywhere you can.

Our living expressions, their innate confirmations, are altogether responses to what is not, in truth, “Real,” but rather the product of fearful, desperate artificial social divisions. We who are free individuals know that we are the vital sprouts from intelligent sunshine. We intend to bring on the day.

Of New Evenings

From a book in development.

I

Affections counterfeit, these feelings —
merely auxiliary, decomposed —
are not the reasons I awake.

They are not the guiding lights
of my damp, scribbled ink.

They are the guardrails
of not becoming The Void,

knowing damned well that I should.
I concede to something else:

the meeting place of myself,
the singular aperture in me
from where all relevant Will arises.

Such headaches of cosmic strain —

the lands behind me prescribe
the same worn sonnet of ages;

the lands before me endure
forward hopes of deliverance.

What blazes in me is not kindled
in any section of souls "alike."

I find myself alone in droves
and a drove myself alone,

so between I know my own realm
where effigies erected of kings

engulf with bright yellow flames
while bands of wanderers watch,

hold close their fragment of entirety.

II

Undaunted eyes confess:
the heart springs its blood
with steady living bones
grounding self to soil.

Dazed purpose awakes the body
from dreams of perfumed clarity.

All joined make a person
(or a living phenomenon)

crowned with a dizzied mind
running at relief through chaos.

In symphonies of action,
one weaves the winds of that self —

the self itself a chaos —

in constellations of affinities,
one shuffles in with the analogous
only to prove oneself as exception.

So what am I? Not different, not
the same; not divided, not unified.

One river of streams coursing
in departing surges
colors my intent —

I want to rejoice
at the resting place of woe,
never paying mind to the grueling

other side of the demeanor
coming to life, smiling.

III

In the fields and gardens of ourselves,
when morning breaks, when seeds
await their place to become,

we are made stunned by what speaks
in the dug-out planters not bearing.

What moves when the procession alone
goes on in defeated strides and tones
for the emotions of who will not sow?

(Why must I starve in the stagnant woe
when those inhaling mine eat so well?)

What rebellion was forfeit on success
that was made a fallen image,
serves as beacon for all pursuing?

(Why must I not ascend with a torch,
illuminate the proof of their deeds?)

Now, I am only walking the fields —
I dare not grace the leaves.
The pests have their place too,

what they affect is to stabilize
against the cruel winds to come;

insanity embodied — cheering itself.
Wordless sieg heil's . . . just for now.

"Now" should never leave me. At
the cliff I'm nearly gunned down at —

body quivers, falls just as the spirit
dares her beautiful leap.

IV

It all might as well just be a folly . . .
in confirming this, we know the root
that so many clung to, sprung from.

All the bastard born are better still
than all the virgins of grime
who had never summoned nerve —

buckling at one whiff of convention.
I see us bastards climbing higher
upon fumes of green and blue,

higher than any well-fed poet's claim
of better inebriation in virtue.
Folly and her interplay . . . we sway

under the shadow of new evenings,
never lacking footing but always closing
in backward steps onto nowhere.

And soon, one steps back, watches
this layered swirl of higher folly
dipping through gilded nonsense.

V

I overcome the sorry world. I decide
that nothing it decides — decides on me.

I neither smite nor forgive. I abandon.
I cast my flame, inhale my green herbs;

I scheme in silent cells; I endeavor
on the promise I confirmed in myself.

I was free when I decided I was free.
You will be free when the last breeze

of being in any conception of bondage —
of being bound to any caste, performance —

is swept away by the new surge,
the new omnipresent fruit

arising from desperate seeds of renewal
that waver for nothing under the sun.

Bits From A Text


I.

Like being born
is its own triumph,
ending at its beginning.

Like standing upright
bears the weight alone
while tired knees falter.

One finds a working implement
in the course of new and done days:

old early footsteps
become gallops of fright
and bliss;

the new and the done, tempered;

rites of passage called memory,
sharp edges' recall of detail.

A head is to a torso
as a melody is to a moment:
the rod bears its nicked spearhead

propped in crossed arms
beside the wide familial fire.

Blood black outlines rose red
on the nouveau postcard
from alternative successes dreamed of.

The whirlwinds
​ of subconscious premeditation

voiced in the sleeping soliloquy
​ that hand themselves

to the picking something up
​ and having it stay with you . . .

the winds, the winds.

Let them through.

Morning now. Another being born.
Another little triumph

in the wide, close-eyed surrender
to what will be as it will be

when it will be,

calling it "agency."

II.

Standing from rest,
lying from battle.
Both are what it is

to come to life. But the hard,
dry membrane between

the hidden room of the mind
and the physical translation
of the hands

keeps its reminders facing inward
like mementos perched
to be turned away from:

the nightstand stared at
before leaving the bedside.

Exertion mends no jagged line,
conspires another moment —

sitting at the far side of later
just before the coveted exit

— for when one feels stupidest
for exiting bed ever at all.

But it's okay. One doesn't go
and brew coffee to proactively fix

the same problems waiting every
day. Take it in, hot or cold, lukewarm,

discard in rising and setting vessels
before the last sweep of the table

clears what left the hands may do.

III.

Islet on the lake. My hideaway
becomes an addition to its bed.

Sooner than not, I am drowned
and dragged off the banks.
Already I know who I am.
The afterbirth of new depths.

Caught on that border
between a new and senior soul,

the horror show of development,
the maturing rhythm

of tempering eagerness with ease —

ease assumed from distance
put between task and finishing ripple,
new measurements of "use."

What "uses" to the world
are not brutalities to self?

Then the question sat upon
at the dawn-kissed bank, cold sand
filling the hourglass

designating time spent ruminating;

now creative, irresponsible flinches
become the handiwork of echoing sages.

Maybe my place will ascend
when the stags fashion instruments

of slain challengers' antlers
and the doe circle with intent.

Only then might I start to hide again —
because I'm not an element of being seen,

but being heard
from out of any given distance.

Furl

Ten Poems

Whoever will thinly surmise
the impossible
has already begun
reaching to snatch themselves.

Unwavering gravitation
that jerks its reigns by gasps
and bellows its fury by breeze

meets its attraction in the unity
between life and the living —

a universe within a body
being scarcely any different.

Your daydream is rich

when long marches through hurt
yield insights of courage,

spell themselves
in unwritten, resolute reply —

washing the dream,

leaving the fruitful portent
of the next stanza in motion.

Complete text here (PDF), 51 pages, CC-BY-NC 4.0

Broken Pieces of A Clue

poor ragged breath

poor heart to hold . . . .

. . . . a taste in my mouth
defines this hour . . . .

. . . . spirit heavy —
dusted with lead breath —

i'd just lost the word
i'd clung to
since being born . . . .

. . . . staring into the iris
of sleep,

murmurs in black
satin shroud

Revel in The Dawn

Pieces of Novatorean Ataraxia

But one should not be lowered into the grave with a heart swollen with sadness and weeping. It is necessary first to have lived in intensely as Artists, as Rebels, as Heroes, without ever having bathed in the bitter waters of repentance that flow in christian rivers. The true original and spirited sinner should not die drowning in the slimy whirlpools of a slimier remorse, but rather enveloped in the rosy blaze of the greatest sin. Before dying, we must be consumed to the last quivering spark of our luxuriant thought, having made a feast of the world and an infinite pleasure of action. Before dying, it is necessary—as Emerson said—to feel everything become familiar to us, every event useful, every day holy, every person divine. Then? “Then comes the nausea, the repugnance, the loathing,” says Bruno Filippi, and then one “dares” and daring one goes with a calm and bright spirit toward the silent realm of Death where the mind is dispersed in the vast stillness of the Void and matter decomposes in order to live another type of unknown life in the atoms. But for us even Death should be a vigorous manifestation of Life, Art, and Beauty!

— Renzo Novatore, In The Circle of Life (In Memory of Bruno Filippi)

1

I hear today the cattle moaning their despair from within their pens.

“WOOOOOKE!!! WOOOOOKE!!!”

Their numb, hollowed-out spirits hunger for the familiar, safe-feeling slop. No vibrant substance will be digested. Any dosage of real, considerate life will be regurgitated, stomped into gore and cursed.

A docile matter of living reality is carried on the wind; a gentle brush of the nose or ear by the simple substance sometimes hazily referred to as “Truth,” but most aptly termed Nuance.

“WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE . . .”

an allergic reaction to anything truly enlightening.

Such are those unworthy to breathe my fragrant air, to suck up my bright, beautiful, magical “Woke” life for their vulgar comfort.

Such is the herd of slaughter not for food or hide, but for peace and sense. Such are those who condemn those awake and mature for disturbing their malicious sleep of blissful, childlike complacency.

2

All is well that’s in me. Even the ugly, the weeping, the screaming, the wretched. All that’s in me is an outpouring — which can be sweet and beautiful, or sharp and snarling. All this is well to me. And what’s well and good to me is everything.

3

The raging spirit’s eclipse of the warped sunlight that invades out from christian stained glass is the catalyst of all the women like me who gather nude in the grove to give our offerings to our First Mother. Our thanks are to life herself: her workings, her mysterious expanse; their thanks are to a bygone rebuker nailed to wood. Their thanks are to a convict — all of whom today, interestingly, they rebuke and deny.

Jesus, if living today, would be transgender and poor — crucified again by supposed “true followers.”

“You are proof that Jesus Christ died in vain!”

No. Each and every “white” western “christian” is the proof: Jesus shat himself on the cross.

4

I frame my triumphant sin inside purple vervain wreaths to celebrate with my closest loved ones.

I will that no fall will greet my everlasting pride. I will that nothing that a shit stain of Jesus says will ever come to pass. I will it so, and so it is.

Now every secret pervert pastor, every plastic bimbo pastor’s ugly excuse for a wife, every unintelligent pastor’s child, every proud bimbo-hag mother of a pastor is only a fleck of shit beside the brutal, apocalyptic cosmic crescendo of war between the willful and clear iconoclast versus the fervent, clouded and duped spiritual pauper.

I have sinned unpunished as a way of life before the very face of the decrepit “god” of Abraham, who could only groan, drool and faintly widen his fading eyes to threaten with worthless, disproved commandments. This stirs laughter in me.

I laugh because I had successfully undone my coercive baptism by rites and ceremonies of thorny roses, fragrant liquors, sour herbs and choice pharmaceuticals. I had rebirthed myself — for myself — in bright, blossoming negations of every last sorry belief in any unshakable “Natural Order.”

This defiant sprouting, growing and becoming disperses every thinkable “Order,” encompasses every material body, every inner working, realizing The Reality of Active Chaos! This is not the artificial “chaos” of the capitalist or the politician pitting oppressed people against each other; it is the Living, Breathing Chaos that comes with the existence of any self-determining will. It is one chaos to another, it is an infinity of possibility — thriving in a world dominated by one malignant strain of conservative “chaos.”

Me and my loved ones watch eagerly at “god’s” deathbed while his prosperity gospel pastors writhe and wail in the distance for more donations. His life support is failing, failing . . .

. . . more daring, intelligent children seeing to it that their parents suffer . . . more wild breaks from the “Family,” the “Gospel,” the general horseshit of so-called “life” . . . more voluntary sterilizations . . . more beautiful, superior women like Me . . . more casual dejections of “salvation . . .” more blazing torches of critical intellect and loaded chambers of defiance marching toward the total annihilation of constraint . . .

— Flat Line! At last! Death gasp so sweet! The death gasp of “god” is the eternal respiration of the spirit!

I carve off his eyelids so his dead gaze may never turn from witnessing my delicious, unrepentant sodomy. I coat my sterile girl cum on his dried, broken lips.

Such is the orgasm of the solidly real and lived reality.

5

Poet-martyrs of the high exalted spirit,

I lay my bundle of fruits before your resting places, inviting the animals to carry them to you.

I see to it that these are carried to your respective realms of self-determined divinity over the roaring universes of your individual lives, having once been mortal, and having since come to that exuberant crest where you each took your leaps through dark passageways entering The Eternity of Your Own.

Filippi, oh Brother Against “God!” Novatore, oh Unknowable Sibling! I pour a drink for both of you. I thank you.

You and others are eternal in me, because I too have not stopped at gracing my fingertips across the texture of perfect eternity, but have brazenly stole it before everyone to witness.

And I did not feel the least bit repentant. I know you send out your love to me and all those adjacent to me. I know we will meet at the distant eternal noon.

6

Our deeds are only “Dark Arts” when they are not practiced by christians or their “god.” Any lashing out at the source of lashings is only valid when a christian is receiving them, rare and overdue in all forms.

The iconoclast commits the once invalid to the new valid: the persecution of all who began persecution! The clear and evident end of stupidity by every means at hand!

To every intentional idiot: do not cry or beg for your wasted life when the flog is coming down on you, when the consequence of your words and deeds comes down on your head. You have always asked for this.

7

I do not concern myself with tyrant-elects or mandates of shame and third-class citizenship. The iconoclast communes with possibility, with fruitful pathways, with potent satanic intellect, with secret knowledge that strikes cosmic blows to the most undeserving of life and power. There is nothing above, within or below the sun that escapes her. Nothing she grasps is ever taken.

8

In moments of decompression, when tides are surging their undertow, flowing clear and crystalline at a distance, know that within you is the same thing surging your life force through the tools of your mind and body. You are the only one in charge of it for yourself. Know that life as a whole is not the life that prevails in your body. But the life that prevails in your body is capable of shaping and channeling life as a whole.

The mind and body know restriction, know also the lack of restriction in some crevices of life. But the spirit knows only its own momentum. And it is by this exact momentum that laws are negated, empires are forgotten, disgusting old bastards are denied martyrdom — when the mind, body and spirit are united in the unwavering reality of the living, angry individual.

It is in dancing life’s dance that life becomes whole and beautiful. It is in going with this surge, channeling it at will, that ever-evolving perfection is seized.

9

Whatever anyone is to do shall be judged on how much joyful potential it brings to those seeking it.

Whatever anyone is to do shall be remembered for what unfathomable bases of dominant power they have leveled in one intelligent swipe.

Whatever you shall do can only be known and appreciated if it brings you and your actions to the front of what is plaguing us each uniquely.

Whatever is to be shall be, and all who are to become shall become.

The persistence of the spirit is eternal.

10

Every single worthwhile uprising has its dancers, its musicians, its providers. Its cheerful moments wherein all who live revel in the dawn.

Each joyful secession from the thoughtless herd sends up its own potent sunbeam; every willful intermingling or isolation propounds something truly indescribable.

“Balance” is not a program, and no program is valid in the infinite possible considerations of the raging spirit. There can only be lives living freely. And no life can possess the body that is the vehicle for any other life, steering it according to the duped mockery of “will” and justified by wanton thirst for christian patterns of doing things.

The age-old paradigm of morally reaching into a living body and commanding it has died by my sinful hand on this day as of publishing.

Today is the day for every spirit, alive and awake.

Today belongs to the free!

2 – Manuscript Preview

Early light. The earliest light in December.
Beneath luminous advances
gaze desperate eyes into merging gradients.

There is no such thing as comfort . . . . . .

save the impulse to reach under the day
and pull from its drawer the secret
of conjuring the renewed breath.

I do not struggle for ideas, but for
placement and sequence —
hoping, with childlike naïveté,

that the brightening sky
will whisper a pointer my way:

send up some flare or yellow kite
to jolt me out of staring,
moving me inward

toward the bastion of self-preservation
that is contemplating in quiet

but never halting to rest there.

*

The quiet has been decent to me
in reminding what words are —

why letters are so crucially aligned.

Vocalizations — tepid, shrewd —
uncover only frustrated want;

I once made a regretful home out of these,
opting now for a silent descriptiveness

to reside in.

Doses of deliberate ink shape steps
toward real meaning — the source
flaring behind wide eyes

parsing the gilded absurdity . . .
the absurd nature of the self

in conflict with the world.

I have since burned the rotten cabin
made of snaps and barks.

I have found home in myself
beyond the sorrowful ideals

facing outward in my eyes.

*

If clarity had reached me in my dream
it shall greet me in my inner garden:

I sow it amongst the weeds
for they too hold nutrients;

I dispatch some to friends in the far desert
for sterile minerals to transmute into light.

Clarity is not fixed: it is not frozen
nor bolted into the steel of a freeing gun.

It is not innate nor achieved,
it is not the possession of the few

nor of any one many.

It is universally throbbing
when delusion is smothered
with the taut compression

on mouth and nose

grasped by the tendons of disdain,
compacted firmly
by the flesh of all consequence.

*

There is an unmistakable habit:
to lounge at desks, wait for words
to arrive at their gallant rescue.

The typical save-our-souls fashion
of stewing in thought, racing

with intellectual tidbits combined
with the grit and grief of life.

Some introduce something more:
black rose petals, ancient wine

or Egyptian honey to sweeten
the dull, savory misery

that outlines words
in their feeble correspondence
with the pitch white daylight.

A piece of paper, a book —
this is how we carry on

trying to launch a new star
into the void of self-reasoning.

*

En vers libres // In einem
bestimmten meter.

Like everyone's individual anthem
roaring in unison; like clay shards

of spirit gathered and reduced
into one collective individual.

No. Do not break me to make me
a stranger. These lines
elaborate my echoes

that were lost after I fainted
from screaming.

Take them for what they are.

Send up your flare

and see me on.

Accordance, et al

Verily I myself do I define.

What fills the space in the mirror,
what absorbs the light in your eyes
is what I made for me to live

and for you to embrace
or avoid.

It occurs to me: it cannot be spelled
in any great treatise of careful prose —
it has to be a reckless poem, in line
with the substance lived.

Complete text here (PDF), 238 pages, CC-BY-NC 4.0

Content warning for mentions of r—pe, queerphobic and transphobic slurs, mentions of self-harm, substance use and s—cide

Solitude – Future Text

No voice of disagreement passes my ear in the still air of this room. I see no repulsed, self-righteous face. I tend to no regretful wound in another. I unseal no professionally-cut gem of worry in the hope chest of my soul.

Is this contentment? Is this some kind of blind self-assurance? Is this something… something I… alone, as myself, may determine? Or is it only being passionately in love with everything only I can know? Whatever it is… I want it forever.

Day Wanes Again – Future Text

I was not born to rest. I was not born to lay my head down with the false assurance of a final, lofty word. I was not born to accept the fairy tales my grown relatives took literally.

I was born, instead, to go about things with an intentional, informed ease with all things realized by a forward resolve. That is what a life is for, what a life was always for. To absorb details to the best of one’s ability, join them with the details of one’s own, intricate thought and move and do in accordance with the relation between these.

For all the days and nights set upon the Earth, for all the sleepless early morning hours of restless combat, one should eventually come to the realization that not everyone is equipped to be so bold as to be something beyond the herd. Those who cannot do so are simply destined to be a unit bound to an imaginary whole, and the life lived cannot be discarded for them. Thus I should say loudly —

hail to the lives spent writing which had motivated me so! Hail to the warmth of a healthy forgetfulness in regards to the self-righteous stuff sapping life of its marrow. Hail to the waning day — for it is the good struggle before the dawn of the Unique, the possession of the Own. Hail to the Unique, for it is me and it is you.

I know that individuals are resilient: they are greater than the attempt at any perfect, unilingual communication of the One Sacred Way out of the many-faced monster of domination and coercive trickery. But I also know that individuals are fickle, naive, prone to being lumped in with “People.” That cannot stand anymore. Not if individuals really want to live, to be and to become.

I do not know how to casually explain to anyone with spoken or written word what is so vividly felt and thereby deeply known when among the beautiful, loving remnants of the Earth. I do not know how to go about explaining what in me is so obvious. If this is not so in you, I do not know how to nurture any trust, any bond between us.

There can only be something for the freeness of the life lived if that life will stoop beside the creek, discard time, learn to listen to what is so wordless yet so resonating and allow the perfection waiting in the self to come through, smile, and guide that life to itself and the places beyond its initial horizons.