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Jane A. Rug
Member since June 13, 2023
Member for 3 years, 1 month
Lamentable prolific skullduggery undermines victory
for Homo sapiens sapiens,
whose love affair
with hate and violence
makes living evinced as utopian
an impossible mission,
when within a twenty four hour period
murder and mayhem run rampant
no longer shock the monkey
though being an innocent bystander
nevertheless, I experience
what feels like a sledgehammer
coming down hard and fast
on my head, and if religious
I would equate the following
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words somehow linkedin to
the diabolical, which
satanic verse here far beyond
the realm of rational thinking
just attempted to cull
mostly unflattering words ending with istic,
(but I did include some admirable words)
relating to, or characterized
by a (specified) quality —
used to form adjectives
from related nouns
that end in -ism,
and as a sensitive, intuitive,
furtive, and assertive person,
who knows enough to sift the wheat
from the chaff
(beyond the realm of hyperbolical -
cause sensational news sells)
chaff thru a process called winnowing
and horrific real life stories
publicized on the webbed wide world
which on many occasions
seems stranger than fiction,
and though many compliments
can be associated
with profound capacity for naked ape
to exhibit not only
self destructive characteristics
eclipsed - courtesy mortal kombat -
impressive cognitive abilities
the agents provocateurs
capitalizing on immediate yearning
abandon their true values
volunteer to risk their life and limb
to experience rush of testosterone
driving them analogous to a madman
which maniacal potential exists
within the heart of darkness
and insane soul asylum
of the average earthling,
I feel self disapproval
at perpetrating heinous
dirty deeds done dirt cheap
generally repulsed by guts and blood
but nevertheless morbidly fascinated
at breadths, depths, lengths, et cetera
individuals subject themselves
and/or deliberately foment riots
I catch myself unawares
after reading documented accounts
about voyeuristic, ultranationalistic,
terroristic, sadistic, radicalist;
qabalistic (relating to
or having a secret, mystical,
or esoteric meaning); pugilistic;
opportunistic (especially
at the expense of others welfare);
narcissistic; militaristic; lamaistic
(also alluding to someone
being submissive such as yours truly
back in the day, whose sublimated
nonestablishmentarian predilections);
kabbalistic (neutral impact describing
neither positive nor negative
human behavior - in my
humble opinion); jargonistic
(definitely applicable to my writing style);
imperialistic; hedonistic; gongoristic
(that would apply to me
right here in parenthesis);
fascistic, egotistic, dysphemistic,
cannibalistic, ballistic, atavistic,
antagonistic, et cetera,
but still the shear brutality
of the supposed wisest
of global genus and species
breeding like rabbits)
manages to render and fixate
these myopic eyes of mine
and draw occipital orbs
where no shortage of headline stories
adrip with killing,
looting, murdering,
pillaging and plundering, raping
unsuspected innocent
victims of circumstance
does color projection longevity
regarding the perpetuation
where the most
dominant bipedal hominid
runs rampant over the planet
procreating without restraint
inducing me to predict
decline and self extinction
when dark shadows
will lurk from the outer limits
of the twilight zone
where one can envision a foo fighting
beastie boy driving the highway
to hell oblivious at being thunderstruck,
where din of noise sounded like
a bajillion hells bells being struck
at the same time
signaling the approach
of ten thousand maniacs
coming around the mountain
when she (ruthless Mother Nature)
comes barreling like the the furies.
In mythology, the Furies
were three snake-haired goddesses—
Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone—
who served as relentless avengers
of unpunished crimes.
In modern language,
the word is used
more generally to describe intense,
violent anger, or to refer to a person—
often a spiteful woman—
who acts like an avenging spirit.
Essentially when most feared apocalypse
materializes making the American Civil
War child's play especially when the
sixteenth president uttered prophetic words
just as relevant today (July 15th, 2026)
as he delivered them
on Monday, March 4, 1861
averring closing words
of his first presidential speech
whereat the mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone
all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched,
as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature
which unfortunately did not become manifest.
Jane A. Rug’s timeline
- July 2026
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12 SunPosting milestone
500 poems posted
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10 FriReceived a critique
on A non phony lesson learned... from @Geezer
"I'm thinking that you were going to connect the phone and the shitter somewhere along the line and got distracted by some sh@# and failed to launch, just pooped out, so to speak. I know I would have wanted to flush the…" -
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I declare Me and my entourage...
"I declare Me and my entourage of four footed friends out for our independence day daily constitutional" -
02 ThuPosted a poem
Can synthesized sounds from SiriusXM Utopia...
"be deemed creative and for that matter can any by product from Artificial Intelligence be classified as authentic, which to this contemplative, furtive and intuitive literate opportunistic rational Übermensch (contrary to popular rumor NOT a mensch who doth ride an Uber), but rather Übermensch a German word translating to "Superman" or "Overman" coined by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra representing an ideal human who creates their own values, transcends conventional morality, and embraces life fully without relying on religion?" - June 2026
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28 SunPosted a poem
Grateful for the wife being present in my life more so than the Lord
"Though marginally and minimally demonstrative (one exception to the rule being outspoken admitting being secular and a skeptic in matters religious) expressing emotions concerning myself and the missus together as a legally fused moon unit since July 26, 1996, (nevertheless we weathered a couple/few years living together, albeit rather tumultuously) any and all previous relationships with the then girlfriend qua wife did witness ruptures and repairs (none of which registers even, a blip on seismometer, though between us yet the Seismogram needle would go way off the charts depending on the specific instrument, the paper used either smoked paper (a soot-blackened sheet where a stylus gently scrapes away the soot) or photosensitive paper, (which exposes an image via a beam of light), but in any case traditional analog seismographs record seismograms on paper attached to a rotating drum." -
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24 WedReceived a critique
on Neptune salad days from @Geezer
"said it better myself! Boy, the A.I. seems to have developed a taste for your work. I do think the sudden shift gave rise to the thought, "We are on a dead-end street, do or die". But you pulled out of the swan dive jus…" -
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If only harmonic convergence could prevail...
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17 WedPosted a poem
Bountiful fiendish – Nostradamus right on the (ahem) money for 2026
"Where true-believers (NOT this skeptic despite horrific from a commander in chief seeks to be beatific), and interpreters point to several verses in his 1555 book "Les Prophéties" as potential warnings for 2026." -
10 WedReceived a critique
on When tired and bare to the bone from @Geezer
"I'm supposed to start some lung-rehab sessions a couple of times a week, in the near future. I sure do hope, I feel the way you're feeling after them. I really do admire the single-mindedness that you can achieve when y…" -
07 SunNew follower
@patrickgadoury
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07 SunReceived a critique
on Citizens Bank checking account... from @patrickgadoury
"I can’t lie, I do kinda respect the mad rush here. It feels like the speaker got hit by one bank problem and somehow the whole universe got dragged into the complaint with it. It's possible I don't always "get" stream o…" -
07 SunReceived a critique
on Tomb morrow the United States commonwealth doth goeth to the dogs from @Geezer
"the Feudal system is alive and well here, in the so-called Free-World. Huh! Free world? There will be none of that here! The royalty of C.E.O.s, upper-class nobility with their vassals and peasants all lined up to meet…" -
05 FriReceived a critique
on Where oh where did the last forty nine years go? from @Geezer
"I think that you have got it straight. It's history repeating itself, just like they said it would. Just a new slant on the old story, "You are wrong, I am right." The only thing that perturbs me, is the worthlessness o…" -
04 ThuReceived a critique
on From: Matthew Scott to his youngest daughter from @patrickgadoury
"I can feel the love and father-daughter ache underneath this, but I struggled hard with the length and density. Right now it feels like every impulse made it onto the page: graduation, absence, pride, wordplay, email/fo…" -
03 WedReceived a critique
on Extreme anguished agony courtesy cyber smokey and the bandits from @patrickgadoury
"First off, I’m sorry they keep fucking with you. That stress comes through hard here. I liked how fresh and different this felt: part fraud alert, part panic spiral, part wordstorm. My only craft note is compression. Tr…" - April 2026
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24 FriNew follower
@Karriss Carey-ivory
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09 ThuCritiqued
"Return Back To Me " by @Louise Riveiro - Mitchell
"heartbreak among one of countless painful ordeals that most people and other animals experience, yet the torturous emotional agony decreases with time or remains steadfast like an unwanted guest if the circumstances tra…" -
06 MonCritiqued
"Reflections of a Gen-Xer" by @Wallyroo92
"time will appear to speed up with each subsequent completed orbit around the sun as can be attested by this sexagenarian who just happened to be a thirty something yesterday, and woke up today sixty seven years old, and…" -
06 MonCritiqued
"FASCINISTIC EXPOSISTIC DOUSCHOUS" by @Triskelion
"i merely respond with the no nonsense word from mary poppins id est supercalifragilisticexpialidocious occurs in the 1964 Mary Poppins film during the "chalk-drawing outing" animated sequence." -
05 SunCritiqued
"Stillness " by @AshleighNgoqo
"punctuation, which found me adrift along the nile observing the relics of civilizations that came and went along the fertile crescent entombing me in images of grandeur." -
05 SunCritiqued
"Good Friday" by @Clentin
"as a secular humanist and aspiring socialist caucasian, grammarian, latitudinarian, married nonestablishmentarian, pennsylvanian proletarian, sexagenarian, and unitarian, who enjoys words seeks other who share a passion…" -
03 FriCritiqued
"THE RHETORIC OF THE CINNABAR" by @Davut
"of the poet's sweeping themes, and perhaps my own challenges with flirtation with existential nihilism and ofttimes bouts recurring about suicidal ideation, the mention of depression caught my attention." -
03 FriCritiqued
"A place we all belong!" by @Leslie
"but the idea of traversing along an unknown boulevard of broken dreams part of the outcome taking chances to muster courage to get up and follow one's calling, no matter bush whacking with a cheney saw a helpful impleme…" - March 2026
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29 SunCritiqued
"Im Scared For You " by @Peggy Castle
"ah...short and sweet unlike my lengthy tomes that seem to take a life of their own when brainstorming for some unexpected flash in pan food for thought, but i hope to see more examples of your writing." -
18 WedNew follower
@Lamar Ingraham
- February 2026
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15 SunNew follower
@Davut
- January 2025
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15 WedHighest posting month
January 2025 — 21 poems
- July 2024
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16 TueFirst critique offered
on "H8mongers Need Not Apply" by @Mary Beth Magee
- June 2024
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13 ThuAnniversary
One year of membership
- January 2024
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19 FriPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- June 2023
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13 TueFirst publication
Procreation begets immortality
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13 TueJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
Despite the onslaught of paparazzi, I (an eccentric and opportunistic kindhearted sexagenarian - born January xiii, mcmlix at The Christ Hospital within Mount Auburn, Ohio) instantaneously shied away from the spot (klieg) lights, and avoided crowdsource most of my iv and lx orbitz round the earth mainly on account of being gifted with introvertedness somewhat minimized by chomping on powder milk biscuits, which magically mysterious and top secret ingredients gave this once painfully shy person formidable courage to face fearful fixes such as getting up out of bed first thing in the morning and crafting one or more essays, poems, vignettes, et cetera.
Location: PA, USA
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