on one

[1st5years]

. . 5 year old me pulls up on a big wheel:

"Get in loser! We're going demon hunting!"

And I'm like dude. . . There's not room for me on that thing. Like even if you get off it's too small for me.

Five year old me just smiles. Without saying a word, he gets off the big wheel, stands there for a second, and disappears into thin air.

I can't ride the big wheel so I take it with me. I carry it up a mountain until I come to a waterfall, which for some reason is the Waterfall of Wishing from A Link to the Past.

I see myself from overhead. The world is now 16 bit.

I know how to do this part. I enter the Waterfall of Wishing. Everything is just like the game. If you've never played it, there's a small pond behind the waterfall where you throw an item in and a fairy gives you back an upgraded version of the item. It looks like this:

So anyways, I throw the big wheel into the pond and what do I get back? A 1993 Toyota Carolla.

I enter the chariot. . .

[1st5years]

Rusty sword tempered

Calm. No need for temper

Stormy weather. No worry

Soaking wet. No hurry

Walking slowly in the rain

Across multiple planes. I gain

Access to the demon city

Neon lights. So pretty.

[1st5years]

The magician has the knowledge to use the tools needed to manifest a desired change.

The fool is wise enough to forget what they've learned.

[xx8199xx]

Ⅵ．恋人

[1st5years]

No one can survive alone

Not really

We need relationships

We need connection

Humans are a group animal

And our success as a species depends on our ability to work together

Our relationships

Be they romantic

Familial

Plutonic

Professional

Or otherwise

Require compromise

Require sacrifice

Even of our own individuality

Of our identity

Of our ideals

Of our very being

The fool learns about the way of the world from the heirophant

Then he must leave

And experience the world

Experience relationships

Experience connection

This is the path of the lovers

The understanding of beauty

And the beauty of understanding

[1st5years]

I was on the brink of going insane.

When you found me wandering the physical plane.

A walking zombie, my spirit had died.

You gave me a ticket. I took the ride.

I was rescued by my lover. I was rescued by my brother.

I was rescued by the moon. She's a maiden and a mother.

She's a wise old crone. She's a bad mother fucker.

She said "You are not alone. Look! Here come the others."

I was rescued by a dose. I was rescued by a kiss.

I was rescued by the girl from the valley of mist.

All the world's a game, with reoccurring themes.

It's dangerous to go alone. You need your team.

[1st5years]

A tradition of destroying tradition

We are always here

Cockroaches

Impossible to eradicate

Always evolving immunities

To new forms of poison

Inhalation

And exhalation

Lay the foundation

Of a new era

[tarot-dreams]

[1st5years]

The image of Shakamuni Buddha,

Along with Shouten and Kanjizai

Have been packed and stored for the move

Ever since I put them away

I have been plagued by nightmares

Still

The temple remains

And my training with the heirophant continues.

[1st5years]

I alter timelines

like qanon conspiracies

And rehabilitate

Welcome to my daily therapy

The devil made a mockery

Of this timeless discipline

But there ain't no stopping me

When I use this medicine

Incense offerings. . .

Daily meditation. . .

Daily exercise. . .

The use of incantations

Freestyle flippin. . .

This poem is written

I could bust for an hour straight

No bullshittin

My words reverberate

Control the breath to elevate

Mutual aid. . .

Will keep the food on our plates

I build with gen x,

millennials and zoomers

Even boomers. Shit looks bad

But I'll never be a doomer

Not too long ago

I used to feel worthless

Now I contemplate

How can I be of service

I wrote this poem with

The help of instrumentals

At instruction of the Heirophant

Deep inside the temple

[1st5years]

Ikari Shinji and the line

＿＿＿＿＿

We all need rules.

Don't blame me. I don't make the rules.

Rules were made to be broken.

The Emperor makes the rules.

The Emperor was made to be overthrown.

"Basic rules. Rules like gravity."

Everything decays.

In 2020 the phrase "red pilled" has a variety of meanings, all of them bad.

Ideas become corrupted.

Words lose meaning.

Woke as a pejorative.

Everything decays.

That's a rule.

Don't blame me. I don't make the rules.

[364egg]

Vaporwave Tarot #4

The Emperor

[1st5years]

Back to the Future lies

If you were to change the past

You'd only create a new timeline

Marty's dad gained confidence

And so he was more successful in life

What a load of crap

Confidence helps

But not as much as privilege

White privilege

Male privilege

Straight privilege

Class privilege

Biff is president

And roger stone is free

---

Two timelines before me

One involves stranger things

The other involves games

Two timelines before me

One involves leisure

The other involves work

Two timelines before me

One involves twitter

The other involves a poem

---

Inhale and exhale

The spirit blade slices time

What a crazy world

[1st5years]

The sun is shining

And it's another scorcher

I'm feeling lazy

That's my lack of discipline

The heirophant has appeared

[1st5years]

Date: June 4, 1990, Ｔｉｍｅｌｉｎｅ B

"So you used to be a hedge fund manager?"

"Yeah."

"What happened?"

"I quit."

"I know but why?"

"I realized it was wrong. I was contributing to the creation of a dark timeline."

"What does that even mean?"

"Imagine a world where Donald Trump is president."

"Like Biff in Back to the Future II?"

"Pretty much."

"So you mean to tell me you think that if you didn't quit, Donald Trump would have become president? Do you know how crazy they sounds? I can assure you that if different timelines are real, which they're not, there is absolutely no possible timeline where Donald Trump becomes president."

"There is though."

"How do you know?" she asked. I wanted to tell her about the game, but I knew it wouldn't make any difference. So I decided to say something cryptic.

"Vapor City exists in a glitched reality."

"What is Vapor City?"

---

Press start to begin

In the year 2050

A witch wrote a game

And sent it backward in time

Thus creating your timeline

[1st5years]

The Emperor weeps

Rules were made to broken

And roms to be hacked

The Heirophant rejoices

His time too shall come

Freedom cannot be measured

By using degrees

And the Lovers have known this

The Chariot sits

Awaiting them eagerly

First, an offering

The empire burns like incense

Carrying prayers

Smoke rises to the heavens

Burn it to the fucking ground

[1st5years]