Poem about growing numb to the horrors of the modern world. Written in 2018 by BW Derge, featured in PARADOX LOCKED, “Constipated Consciousness” is about the swelling of emotions that appear to have no easy outlet as we feel more helpless…
Writing
Writing include excerpts from novels, short stories, random commentary and rants, poetry, and all else done with letters, words, etc.
Prose Writing
How to Deal with Existential Dread : 10 Strategies
Top 10 Strategies for Dealing with Existential Dread: Existential dread can creep in when you least expect it—a quiet moment, a sleepless night, or even in the middle of a busy day.
Fiction Prose Writing
Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream
Written in 2025, “Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream” is a short story by BW Derge about a couple traversing across multiple universes, grappling with the fragility of their existence and the seeming futility of life. Would you push the button, knowing reality is as limitless as a dream?
Poetry Writing
2025 American Poetry: “The Trifecta (Primary Colors)”
New poem by BW Derge, written in 2025 about the primary emotions, Sadness, Joy, and Anger as personified gods. “The Trifecta”
Music Writing
Albums by the Band Tool – Ranked. Best Tool Albums.
Ranking all six of Tool’s records, including the EP Opiate and the six LPs, not including bonus releases like Salival or Opiate 2.
Fiction Prose Writing
Original Short Story: The Goddess of the Oceanic Realm
A weird short story strewn together from two pages of rambling, practically incoherent, nonsense trying to become a tale. Most of this was rewritten recently, and it became a weird story about a shipwrecked World War II pilot, a shark, and a goddess of the sea.
Poetry Writing
Poem from “The Sun Will Eat You, Too” : The Last Generation of Mankind
“The Last Generation of Mankind” from “The Sun WIll Eat You, Too” (2024) about the digital addictions crippling us as a species. Entitle “The Last Man” in the poetry book
Music Writing
Hard Rock: Is Tool in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Tool is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Does the rock and roll hall of fame discriminate against Metal and Progressive bands? What books were inspired by tool?
Prose Writing
The Cosmic Tragedy of Existence: A Quasi-Philosophical Rambling Essay
Originally written in 2006, a philosophical ponderance on humanity’s position in the cosmic hierarchy of existence and whether or not we are doomed to be caught in an endlessly tragic state of affairs, both on an individual and societal scale.
Poetry Writing
40 Winks – Poem from 2006 by BW Derge
“40 Winks” from Pillars of Salt: The Vultures of Orpheus poem written in 2006 about sleep, dreams, and reawakening.