2.1246 : 9/30/08 : Long March of the Early Riser

Early riser far ahead of dawn

His long march his unfortunate

slide back a day, two gone

his broken pledge his selfish debt

I’ll grant you an hour more

pushed back among the quiet hours

to dream of oceans dream of forests

dream of chasms dream of towers

someone may come look at this

I’m sorry for my horrid scrawl

I’m sorry for the world we made

I’m sorry, sorry for it all

but I’ve got plans and must

away I still plan to surprise her

by stepping up one special day

so hey the long march

of the early riser

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2.1245 : 9/29/08 : Write the Poison

3,436 : 9 ?

Are you going to try to write

the poison out of you

better write in blood

with all the rot you drank

well everything is

just as clear as mud

I’ve got no cleverness

no fast talk that will

make this any cleaner

just to sleep sooner not later

be bigger not a hater

kinder not meaner

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2.1244 : 9/28/08 : Fine a Point

And not to put

too fine a point on it

the whole plan went to shit

but I persisted, somehow

what

2.1243 : 9/27/08 : Recollect the Tunes

I recollect the tunes of youth

Black Dog reveals

I’m long in the tooth

reliving childhood days

childish talk

of childish ways

the heavy and the metal speed

these things defined

a kind of need

I’m not about to

write me off

for every lie

or dullard’s cough

the country rock

to classics of

the sixties psychedelic rug

pulled out from under

eighteen years

eighteen wheels

truckload of fears

what

2.1242 : 9/26/08 : Sigils

So sick of the

spells and sigils

the same old riddles

am I simply

prolonging

the inevitable

that glass is empty

no, no hint of full

but it seems to be a habit

I just cannot drop

well at least mostly

I can stop

what

2.1241 : 9/25/08 : Mission

A walking curdled stomach

filled with fear and suspicion

I cannot bring myself to

give a shit about the mission

like I even know what that might be

the nothing that you ever gave to me

nothing at all will change

there’ll be some words, recrimination

some other night again

I’ll be stuck with this same sensation

I don’t really need to control everything

but the barbs of uncertainty sting

do I surrender let it be what

it is or do I balk

what’s the use of staying up

for a useless talk

postpone deciding a little while

nobody wins but that’s my style

what

2.1240 : 9/24/08 : Advance Strike

Nobody but the man

is making any advance strike

You sorry revolutionary

pedaling your bike

it all seems like good fun

until someone’s head gets cracked

it might as well be straight physics

the inertia of the way the odds are stacked

I want so bad to have a new solution

some way that’s not doomed before it starts

but long as we keep acting without thinking

blindly following our hearts

and the majority’s complacent

and power favors wicked vice

there’ll be no action from this vanguard

and we’ll all pay the same old price

what

2.1239 : 9/23/08 : Span

I think my expectations

are all out of proportion

of what a day can render

of Caesar’s dear portion

In a day just a day

Such an arbitrary span

the happenstance of revolution

overshadows every plan

I’m feeling hard done by

and it’s all my own fault

but I don’t see you had to

compound injury with insult

what

2.1238 : 9/22/08 : Ball

3,428 : 1 ?

Run around it

worry at it

cannot get my

teeth around the ball

and who could deny

that all we say

and write

and sing

might not mean anything

at all

if life’s just

for the sake of living

every day

no more no less

I might as well

act satisfied

I might surprise

myself

by saying yes

what

2.1237 : 9/21/08 : Waiting Game

It's a waiting game

No matter how you roll

we’re all waiting

for that bell to toll

We're all hungry

We're all insane

thinking of the potential

on that membrane

So I'll hear my sounds

I'll do my mantra

you can almost

hear it can't ya

double space final fold

I better ditch it before it gets old

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2.1236 : 9/20/08 : Wealth

I will do as I wish

with my wealth

or is that not allowed

or do you envy

me my generosity

when my wealth's

superabundant

and my haters cowed

You will be astounded

by fabulosity

Last will be first

first will be last

it will all be

blasted asunder

rocked to its plinth

god I love that word

And I'm feeling fine

every moment can shine

and your spirit is always free

and I'll kick out bad thoughts

conditionals and oughts

I feel it just free as a bird

what

2.1235 : 9/19/08 Displaced In Time

I'm feeling all

displaced in time

too early or too late

I'm feeling up to half a rhyme

And if that's it then great

what

2.1234 : 9/18/08 : Multitasking

I’m watching the teevee set and

reading a book

once in a while I give that

demon in the corner a look

I’m not really following

this show anymore

but I’m trying to multitask

my way out that door

I’m also getting lit and

getting worried by the future

That seems connected to now

by a crooked suture

sometimes it all clicks like

Swiss watch works

But I think we can’t take

much more of these war-hawk turks

So I’m multitasking

peace love and understanding

and when I’ve got the time

I’m out gladhanding

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2.1233 : 9/17/08 : Commitment

I guess I screwed up

the big commitment

Shoulda thought about it

another minute

sure I would have once again

just lost interest

nights like this I

just feel like it would

be best

I guess this routine

has gotten quite stale

not much is left that’s

beyond the pale

I guess I’ll pretend

that I’m still committed

only time will tell

how that fake out got

acquitted

what

2.1232 : 9/16/08 : Dilly

What’s the dilly

this thing’s getting chilly

and I’m too hot

to believe it or not

There’s nothing up here

possibility or fear

the stops are gonna all come back

jump the stack

Don’t want to be feared

or payed attention

or similar fates

too dull to mention

I just want to

do my work in peace

Hope somewhere inside

I’ll find it, sweet release

what

2.1231 : 9/15/08 : Registry

There’s some malfunction

in the registry

the mode of attribution

brainless industry

creates without a notion

if its gambits pay

gives a little here, and there

Explain another day away

what

2.1230 : 9/14/08 : Lost

Sure I could get lost

all over again

but I think this time I

might just snap the thread

that keeps me

raking over old ground

So write this bitch down

with a pen

whatever my real crime I

take arms and stop theories dead

whatever’s not lost

is someday found

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2.1229 : 9/13/08 : Render

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s

So I’m so sorry

but I cannot stay

For there are miles

and miles and miles

and I’ve dug well

into this day

what

2.1228 : 9/12/08 : Peace and Love

All I want to stand for is peace and love

I don’t see the need for your complications

And my baby and me fit just like a glove

I can’t believe the way this nation’s

lost the feeling in its heart

seems to want to talk with fists and boot

and after such an exquisite start

I’d try to argue but the point is moot

here’s one thing they can’t take away

All the love that is inside

here’s a thing I don’t have to say

here I am and here peace will abide

I’m standing here I’m not yet moved

only time tells only time tells

go ahead and tell me what you think it proved

or just listen ‘cause here comes the bells

what

2.1227 : 9/11/08 : Conversation in God’s Office

Standing at his

executive desk

God looked at the

paper and said

Christ, I should

probably get

a publicist

And looking up

from where he sat

with his feet up

on the couch Jesus

said:

“I agree”

what

2.1226 : 9/10/08 : Surge

I’ve got the

urge to surge

but little

ammunition

I’ll purge your town

of these revenants

on one condition

you can’t get too far

ahead in this game

they called it a surge

but it’s really all the same

what

2.1225 : 9/9/08 : Continuity, Number Unknown

I’m afraid of sudden change

I won’t notice it ‘cause

I won’t remember it

Maybe it happens

to all of us

Shadows flit to shadows

in the whispering forests

a good tale is all we ask

And if the continuity fails

number of mutations unknown,

I’ll snap back into the game

long enough to

reset the tone

what

2.1224 : 9/8/08 : Freight of Prose

3,415 : 60 ?

There is no, there is no

sense to how it all collects at times

and just flows syllables and

silent space and rhymes

Do it every day it won’t

come more often

Do it never sure it never comes

at all

we’ve sure devalued the word

but it’s still awesome

when a bold word comes on

in the early grips of fall

and the leaves are turning

and the geese are in formation

and I’m sure that mighty

freight of prose

will someday pull into the station

but in the meantime show me

the territory; I’ll stake it

until that bitch calls again

I guess I’ll fake it

call whatever spills out a song

I knew

but couldn’t believe

it would all take so long

what

2.1223 : 9/7/08 : The Crisis

The thoughts are tumbling

through my mind

but I think you will

simply find

that this is really

nowhere near the crisis

Just look at how I

get back on my feet

and fly it in by

my pants’ seat

it’s magical: it better

be at these prices

what

2.1222 : 9/6/08 : Joy

The definition of insanity

is doing the same thing over and over

and expecting anything to change

I know I seem just all the same

still a bounder, still a rover

but it’s really simple and not at all strange

That I got the joy joy joy

down in my heart and hey

I’m gonna take it to the limit so high

I did everything necessary

to keep the wolves at bay

but I did not snitch, I’m not that guy

What happens on the screen’s

obscene, but I think we have beat it

everybody’s interested but

poor attendance means the

promoter’s gonna have to eat it

this routine is looking like a rut

I guess if there’s joy even

minutes to the day

you’ve got to count your blessings

and there’s me with still

bushels of hell to pay

but eager to pass through

to dawn’s caressing

what

2.1221 : 9/5/08 : Pick Your Moment

Pick your moment

time to shine

Afraid they’re only

going to hear me whine

I have opinions

I can stop

wait and listen for

the pin to drop

what

2.1220 : 9/4/08 : Protest

I guess I’m no good for the protest gig

I guess I got a little too much

of the pig in me

Now I see it clear

It’s no time to stand talking

While you’re hemming and hawing

I’m already walking

Away from the protest

Away from the brink

Get us a little room to breath

Get us a little time to think

But come across

close another quest

stand in a high tower

and watch the protest

what

2.1219: 9/3/08 : Streak

Let’s not fuck up this

streak, okay?

Is that what it’s about

anyway?

After so many struggles

it came to that

concerned with wearing

Buddha’s hat

I swear it turns out better

than it deserves

It’s a hell of a thing, but

the damn thing swerves

drop your bat and watch it

streak across the strike zone

if you’re gobsmacked

check it how you’re not alone

what

2.1218 : 9/2/08 : Swing

We’ve got to turn this thing

turn it over again

turn it over again

we’re swinging up to the wall

we got to kick off

keep that pendulum swinging

we’re all dreaming about

a permanent majority

What we’re getting though

is just more jackboot authority

And I’m hoping that pendulum

is swinging back down

So while you fat cats

all party it up in my town

I’ll slip in a little prayer

for my thing

I’ll slip in a little prayer

for all that swing

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2.1217 : 9/1/08 : Labor

3,407 : 52 ?

The thing is going to have

the measure of its labor in it

and I’ll show you

how I spend it

if you give me just a minute

If I could take this

moment of creative

drive

into every moment

from now on

I’m alive

dedicated to

all the labor

watch and see

how it’s done

new neighbor

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