2.3165 : 1/01/14 : The Thorn

The thorn sought to derail me

from day one

I said you'll have no piece

for I have just begun

and pain can't

tear through beauty's veil

doesn't make it easy

doesn't rosy up the pale

But it brings me back

to all there ever is

and you'll agree

a bit of clever biz

I push the thorn

all the way through

and through the hole

the light shines right to you

what

2.31634: 12/31/13 : Before the Party

Before the party

in the quiet of the night

vow to make something nice

to bathe in the light

tonight tonight tonight

I'll commit my soul

and swear to scorn every regret

and smile through every toll

I hearby pledge

my life to beauty

regardless of the price

necessity exacts

Oh prince of dark designs

I do hereby refute thee

and declare this book henceforth

to be my Book of Acts

what

2.3163 : 12/30/13 : Wrong

Feels like all you can trust is

your every impulse is wrong

the wrong time to get creative

the wrong time to sing a song

the wrong time to dig your heels in

and pick a fight

you're a true freak of nature

at never being right

and there's no rest

no destination no promised land

and what you've got to go on

fits inside one hand

Why can't I just swallow it

always make nice

Why after giving up

every natural vice

do I still wind up blinking

in the single hours of night

awestruck at my capacity

of never being right

and there's no rest

no destination no promised land

and what you've got to go on

fits in one hand

what

2.3162 : 12/29/13 : Sweep

A sweep is possible

I have to believe it all

what words cannot contain

What's shaken

and what does remain

For those who can't

be satisfied

the moral code

unratified

not unfinished

not uncorrected

unstarted, wholly

undirected

Who could then

wield the broom

these clumsy hands

could sweep in doom

and so wait cursed

by little hope

the mess remains

and we just cope

what

2.3161 : 12/28/13 : Possess the Heart

Does wealth possess

The heart of this world

it was the question

and the thought that whirled

And if I got some

being lucky or oh so smart

Would it possess would it possess

my heart?

I thought I thought

I thought of gold

forever bought

forever sold

possesses many hearts

Who have none at all

and that's it's cruelest trick;

our steepest fall

what

2.3160 : 12/27/13 : Impossible

There's no sense crying

over impossible dreams

but we do, but we do, but we do

It's terrible to think

nothing's ever what it seems

but it's true, but it's true, yes it's true

And I'm forever saying

everything will be all right

it's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie

that gets spit back at me

through the teeth of the night

pass it by, pass it by, just a sigh

When we say nothing is impossible

all it means is we won't give up

no one ever did the impossible

the definition of the half full cup

I pine and fret for

my impossible dream

I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I'm a fool

If I could see right in front of me

I wouldn't try to step out of the stream

You're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool

When we say nothing is impossible

what

2.3159 : 12/26/13 : And Joy

And joy could be

our dividend

our principle

of capital

the joyful might

conclude the old

thing had no true

value at all

perspective just

might be the cure

for craving power;

glittering heaps

pure moments of

the true pristine

might launch our ships

by bounds and leaps

and rather than

a sword king bent

on darkness to

destroy

the tale that launches

my ship may

just be a

parable of joy

what

2.3158 : 12/25/13 : Hark

What with

living in the city

I've gotten

oh so sophisticated

don't my voice

sound pretty

and my words

finely articulated

but in the night

I dream of a world gone dark

and awake I think

his world could use a little hark

Wake up

this thing is still a fight

and good is far

from winning

If you believe

in light

it's not the final inning

everywhere is a stand

and a choice stark

and the word I heard

was hark

what

2.3157 : 12/24/13 : Peace On Earth

So you figured out how to wage

a world war

What the locks

on the smallest things of all

were for

So try not to fall down

and roll with mirth

When I declare my objective

is peace on earth

Oh I'm very small

I've no influence

Oh I'm not famous

I'm scarcely of consequence

but this pearl in my hand

you'll be surprised by its worth

and this night I start the bargaining

for Peace on Earth

what

2.3156 : 12/23/13 : Content

Should I become

a content man

fill the buckets

drive the plan

the ship's corrupt

but so's it all

someone's got

to have the content ball

could I persuade

a million clods

one versus 7 thousand

how you like them odds

with only content

mightier than swords

or so they said

armed with their words

what

2.3155 : 12/22/13 : Filler

Too much filler

and thus comes the night

pitch black

freezing

brain's in a sort of twilight

all I want's a miracle

a suitcase of cash

all I want's a

whirlwind

to blow away the trash

and leave every single

thing precious to me intact

give me those little things

and then I'll act

what

2.3154 : 12/21/13 : Pearls

The irritants get buried in

the flesh of more experience

the gloss accretes around the points

acceptance maybe mere avoidance

pull back the fog of time

will some bright beauty shine there

maybe for the chosen ones

the rest may best not mine there

My minds eye whirls I think of pearls

and maybe I refuse to dive

the depths the tender moments' spurs

those times when I was all alive

what

2.3153 : 12/20/13 : Hat Trick

Hat trick

watch me

not caring

not trying

not daring

not really true

but it'll do for a lark

It's just my life's

Such a walk in the park

what

2.3152 : 12/19/13 : Eradicate

Eradicate self-reference

hey I see what I did there

hell I haven't felt this weak

since I let that bitch cut my hair

retreat from inner dialog

pull down the steady state

we'll see what's left to talk about

after all I eradicate

the hemming and the hawing

Of I know not what I know not where

I'll root out every trace of it

come watch the show: you'll gawp and stare

and most of all eradicate

the last shred of self doubt

this tower of reproach

my stand: and this swine culture's rout

(Tower of Reproach: 1)

what

2.3151 : 12/18/13 : Done to Me

Between what I do to myself

and what's done to me

Well lately not a lot

Seems like fun to me

If that's a weak complaint

well here's one more true

I got a hell of a lot worse

but I won't bore you

what

2.3150 : 12/17/13 : Beginning and Not Beginning to Begin

Don't call it wasted

since I wouldn't sell it

at any price

I should have tasted

more by now

I should have been there twice

and there were many mornings

beginning, and not

beginning to begin

and there were clear signs

and knocking, tapping

Let me in

I won't pronounce

upon a day

non one hour old

but I'll announce

for all my turnings

Your indifference is cold

what

2.3149 : 12/16/13 : False

So many

false starts

but were they

Did we figure out

who called it

are we sure they

Stopped the clock

or was it

started

as I sit here

broken hearted

maybe if I'd

started at

seventeen

but didn't I

didn't I just though

maybe if I'd

ever quit

anything clean

well there was that

one time

if you must know

what

2.3148 : 12/15/13 : Speaking

Struck by how I should treat

whereof I would not speak

Stuck on how I could see

what has truly come to my hands

I should sing of young love

heroism's lofty peak

God and love of the homelands

But I'm stuck on the top

Where my thoughts are seeking

and the moment's fierce now

blows all words to the wind

where my thoughts write words large

but they're scarcely worth speaking

and the shuddering void

knocked rang clattered and dinned

what

2.3147 : 12/14/13 : White Flag

Is that a battle cry

or a white flag

we're all mixed up

by the white stag

sure fairytales sure

superstition

but the longing persists

and dreams of sweet fruition

what

2.3146 : 12/13/13 : Reinvention (II)

While I study reinvention

I am hating everything

surely a failure state

missing on every swing

is it just the dogs at the door

is it this inner curse

have to confess that part

has never been much worse

this slumps like years before

another set of books

a litany of askance

old ways that set their hooks

what would I have the future

hold instead of that rut

won't pierce it in a day

a year will make the cut

what

2.3145 : 12/12/13 : The Plebs Flip the Channel

When do you allow

That the wheels are off

how do you distinguish

from the same old same old

You look at me

as I bow my head and cough

And the plebs flip the channel

and dream of gold

I say it's different

in quantity and quality

and maybe our attitudes

that one I'm still chewing

but the degree to which

they derailed the polity

the old rules are all broken

so forgive me for eschewing

what

2.3144 : 12/11/13 : Undisciplined

Experiment's showing

I'm undisciplined

sorta does explain

the type of fix I'm in

can I turn it round

well I sometimes have

I don't have it quite right

but here I'll take a stab

what

2.3143 : 12/10/13 : Wisdom

Got so taken up

with the lure of filthy gold

forgot myself

and my mission of old

forgot the one

for whom I long

Wisdom

oh how I once sought your song

true I wouldn't shirk

responsibility

sure but so I missed

the cutting of the sacred tree

when I longed for refuge

in the dark and dread

Wisdom did you still

reach a bower over my head

If I'm on a track

I'm not feeling it

If there's a line I don't

know who's unreeling it

waiting for the lord to ask

again who should he send

Oh wisdom are you still

waiting 'round the bend?

what

2.3142 : 12/09/13 : Outline

briefly I saw

edges of

the new shape

the doubt and

dismay

the tingling hairs on my nape

so many places

claimed to

transmit thinking's art

true I saw

the outline

Still had no idea where to start

what

2.3141 : 12/08/13 : Experiment

Only thing on my mind

will the experiment book?

will I learn anything

besides I'm still on the hook

did anyone ever get hoisted

on someone else's petard

question of the day

for an unemployed bard

the experiment is meant

to shine a light but where

can't scrape by much longer

with it all in the air

So I chip chip away

Pray I'm making a dent

Pray I get real results for once

for the experiment

what

2.3140 : 12/07/13 : Roll

Roll for initiative

roll to save

I'd be embarrassed to admit

how many fucks I gave

and what's this now

it's not as if I don't care

but effort seems irrelevant

so at another flash I stare

roll versus poison

roll to dodge

If I could find the right number

I've a complaint to lodge

I tell stories worse

than when I was thirteen

pray what the hell

is that supposed to mean?

what

2.3139 : 12/06/13 : Potato

I think my brain

is a cold boiled potato

its hot phase long past

now a blob of beige play dough

they were good days my friend

thinking thoughts so pretty

now a pound of my gray cells

isn't worth three fifty

oh it's probably depression

it's just low self-esteem

I just need a good night's sleep

I just run out of steam

what

2.3138 : 12/05/13 : Deserve

Because you deserve

a greater nation

I will behave as if

this is the early days

of transition, transformation

stranger things may

have happened

in unknown unrecorded days

stories of great deluge

and visitation

We don't know but

they might be

hints from great sages

and we may never get

straightforward explanations

but I'll behave

as if it's barely

the beginning of ages

what

2.3137 : 12/04/13 : White Night

White knight

nobody wants you

saving anything here

hang up your golden helm

is that perfectly clear

I'm walking out

on the job of world saving

that nobody asks for

and of which I was incapable

I am micronized by the world

And the world is micronized by the cosmos

And the future is inescapable

How could I have known

that perspective has just grown

within the great cosmic stage

So vast it seems to swallow the light

On my speck while I slept

my hands down favorite

covalent bipolar elemental

learned geometry from entropy

and hidden in darkness

kissed my world

with a white night

what

2.3136 : 12/03/13 : Post Ism

All category lost

even life

even right

no concept

all convention and others I could mention

You cannot build

a house on stilts

on abstract sand

You ask me what's real

look baby

my right hand

post neologistic

post exceptionalistic

post cinematic prism

kneel then raise your eyes

up to the great Post Ism

If mind is will

and will is thrill

What will you do when

I let the pre-Kingdom Come spill

ride at your own risk

because you will get wet

and I have no Idea

what I'm going to get

what

2.3135 : 12/02/13 : Flow

Why can't I find

the place I flow

why can't I find

my holy source

and then it turns

all upside down

I'm an ungrateful

wretch of course

the world got harder

while I tried to soften up

and what I tapped

seems there's no call for

and providence

seems disinclined to fill this cup

So you tell me

what was that all for

I think I've got to

really tear into this this time

get underneath

two decades' build up

can't come up

until I really have that pump primed

and I'm truly

steeled to meet this world I willed up

what

2.3134 : 12/01/13 : Inside

Shook down some old stacks

Some that weren't mine

I was praying for something

What I got was a sign

not in a manner of speaking

not in a metaphor

It wasn't my interpretation

Still it hit me like a swinging door

all the wonderful things

all the things I seek

have to believe in what's inside myself

have to believe I'll get a peek

Why would anyone believe now

that real change is in the wings

there's an insider on our side

who tells me things

I wish I had a few good days under my belt

I wish I hadn't let a few things slide

try my best to be perfect from now

for tomorrow's pledge to look inside inside

what

2.3133 : 11/30/13 : Just World

To reject superstition

must I allow there is no just world

pity my poor cranium

against that blank brick wall I heaved and hurled

am I an unrefined hick

can't fathom justice not delivered from on high

and injustice is manifest

and our ideals seem twelve times further than the sky

the worm turns again

move fool I used to think it mattered which way

another purge of the system

and all superstitious it is for a fresh start I'll pray

what

2.3132 : 11/29/13 : La La Land

For someone who decided

to commit to the present

I sure spent an awful

long damn time in La La Land

Oh I sang tough sure about

the ones easy to flip

I sang real tough about

the curse of the everyman

I don't like to rely on providence

I'm a guy who doesn't ignore evidence

But when you find the well of the real full dry

you're apt to ignore the beam in your eye

Turned out not single soul prayed hard enough

to live forever and get all the stuff

And if ask me my bright eyes have started to pall

At the thought it works out that way at all

So forgive me if I just

Check in for another tour

in lovely La La Land

If you want to reach me

it's a simple affair

You just make sure you

show up with the bird right in your hand

what

2.3131 : 11/28/13 : To Try

Dull but what else

simply to try

Infiltrate the real

flow don't just pass by

Is this it

is it happening

how do you tell

the riddle wraps a mystery

and probably just as well

when it clicks

you don't ask just

groove

when the music

dries up all

all you can do is move

I try to believe

but stumbling blocks

are thick

who put them

all there

Oh not to care

that's the final

trick

what

2.3130 : 11/27/13 : Chorus

Tired of banging on about

the daily portion

while every Greek chorus

squawks the same exhortation

be here now

but where is here?

and just what the hell's so special

about now

each talk but out here

on the shattering edge

it takes more than chorus

fortune cookies to talk you down

from the ledge

and there's no action

in this great sacred present

anyway and hey at this point

I think I'm entitled to

a little

resentment

what

2.3129 : 11/26/13 : The Hit

I'm lazy so I'll just

get all meta and sing

about the hit

I'm sure I'll lighten up

someday real soon

and get around to writing it

I'll no doubt figure out

how to make that crazy vidya

on a shoe string

it'll solve all my problems

make a million

yeah and just fix everything

I'll be that guy

they'll have me on all the shows

make me do the dance

they'll be so bored

with my little family

they'll want to see a little dark romance

you'll all get bored

even the parodies and covers

will dry up

my sophomore's swing

will leave a trail of merchandise

no one will buy up

in ten years they'll say

where is he now

the guy who wrote the one hit

Oh I'll save every check

it's nothing more than I'd expect

the sign will say he done split

what

2.3128 : 11/25/13 : Face First

Plan something clever

wind up face first

Plan the winning run

end up in place worst

forgot the follow through

and fucking ate it

should laugh it off

but I just scowl and hate it

what

2.3127 : 11/24/13 : Phantasms as Bad as Phantoms

Phantasms as bad as phantoms

at the brink of every doing

Sure the human race is haunted

All our lofty schemes ungluing

Try to tell me that it matters

If it's all just in my head

And so it goes and so who knows

So every day we make this bed

Can't believe I'm on this cusp again

of taking up the pen

am I really talking this talk

trying out this mask again

no of course I never really stopped

of course I do it every day

but oh to hear what dread phantasms

as bad as phantoms have to say

I won't make a single promise

I won't even offer odds

but I'll crack at it a useless hour

or two hey it's no crime ye gods

let it be the first or last

hell I don't even care which one

maybe just the next delusion

let it be as long as it's begun

what

2.3126 : 11/23/13 : Mr. Zero

I'm so happy to be

starting out as Mr. Zero

halfway through

maybe halfway hero

halfway through or

maybe more or maybe much less

pardon me

pardon me if I digress

It's a state of grace

oh don't you know

such rich nothing

my what zero

I'm so happy to be

starting out at square

hm I guess it's zero

Look how you can't help but stare

what

2.3125 : 11/22/13 : Wheel of Ghostly Function

I'd like to think this fresh affliction

might make some junction

but I fear it's just a spoke

On this great wheel of ghostly function

and I'm tired tired tired

and the pain is abundant

and just now anyway

prayer and planning seem redundant

Oh I could go on and on

like that damn spectral wheel

make up another last stand

make another sweet appeal

I could go on hiatus

and hell I could just quit

Despite the wheel's dire shadow though

I will not even think of it

what

2.3124 : 11/21/13 : Twitch

I got to get to

the bottom of this twitch

probably too late

for a timely stitch

but enough is enough

turn of the switch

leave it to tomorrow

for another wild pitch

what

2.3123 : 11/20/13 : Chatter

Feeling the chatter

feeling the stir

goodness does it scatter

goodness does it whir

I try to tame it

I try to be passive

I have to claim it

failure is massive

If it's never quiet

for a minute no

my squirming is a riot

no but i'n'it, tho

if you shut it up

you wonder at what half you lost

but I think I could fill that cup

at half the cost

what

2.3122 : 11/19/13 : Numbers and Signs

I played a million games

with numbers and signs

said I was ready to step up

Soon as every star aligns

hunting patterns you know

it's just our nature

If you roll up in the middle

of mine you better state your

business are you part

of the pattern the plan

are you the one I've been waiting for

the teacher, the man

take my hand

we're walking away from

the numbers the signs

from quick fixes, tricks the

ponzi schemes and anodynes

what

2.3121 : 11/18/13 : Inventory

I signed up for the inventory

I wrote the check

I'm not a hundred percent

but what the heck

Don't know how little

Don't know how late

I'm just telling myself

It will be great

In the dark arcs of the night

I sigh and sigh

So much can never happen

So much can pass you by

Hey a day's a day

And you'll sure hear the story

Of this next big push

now starting with the inventory

what

2.3120 : 11/17/13 : Bail Out

No one will buy

the bail out

and far too many

still might fail out

may I buy the optimism

of a half dozen hence

I fear I hear a voice

of experience

and if it's a bailout

the plane's going to crash

So I'll hang on to that stick

now watch me thrash

what

2.3119 : 11/16/13 : Tragedy

Are we all cooking

an earth sized tragedy

oh is it just what's

been going on forever

oh it's nice to be

a human sized

no matter the tragedy

silence will soon

forever sever

What would be worse

a long agonizing decline

and crash

true catastrophe

or this same old

mish mash

just rolling

and rolling

I'll never know

but I can ask for free

what

2.3118 : 11/15/13 : Home State

Read about the man

up in my home state

how he wrote that song

that felt like pure fate

to this boy who was three

when it went down

how I sang and sang it

in my 3rd town

how I haven't got it

how I'm not that

hearing all the context

I tip my hat

guess I'm glad just idling

in my home state

maybe I won't ask

for more on my plate

what

2.3117 : 11/14/13 : Will Work for Music

Will work for music

See I'm doing it doing it

cut up the dictionary

see I'm gluing it

up but the pile's so high

and I've got to ask why

you never bring me any

music

Ah one fellow said I

lack the true quill

That lady said

I took the wrong pill

and I just say

It's the only way

I know so I keep working

hoping for the music

what

2.3116 : 11/13/13 : Tendrils

I don't know what tendrils these are

showing through

I don't really want to start that thing

I said I'd do

Surely I don't want to go back

to the same

they curl and turn and

pull:

there goes the game

I feel like like grabbing

pull it inside out

find out what this

twinging barb's about

gather my rags and cans

to stake a claim

they twine and

climb and reach

there goes the game

what

2.3115 : 11/12/13 : Log

Do I gotta keep

the captain's log again

to try to

bootstrap out

of this dull sin

of seeking solace

in the spit warm flow

the mess of tubes

the dim electron glow

Effect the log-in

set the secret code

praying at last

I'll tap the mother lode

I know the symptom's

not the real disease

if you think up a cure

do log it please

what

2.3114 : 11/11/13 : Miss

Every swing a miss

it happens

willing on that wisp

I'm scrapping

fifty hundred old dumb dreams

nothing but what

nothing seems

and will the new thing stick?

call these old lives

a devil's

hat trick

what

2.3113 : 11/10/13 : Ridiculous

The thing had not

I realized

got so ridiculous yet

S'damn my eyes

Get good while goodies got get

Yeah it's a bolt

I'm a rum one oft a fool

but not quite yet a dolt

what

2.3112 : 11/09/13 : Authority

The game, the game

the half pauses

the rain the shame the

escape clauses

So many things

don't deserve to be good

sometimes they are anyway

don't you think there would

be some authority

but there ain't nah

how do you think he'd

explain it brah

well keep anything short

and double up the beat

throw a little flash in

make the lyric sweet

the game the game all

past the point

of no return

as such

decamp this joint

what

2.3111 : 11/08/13 : Magical Hours

So the 14,000 magical hours

had passed

and I laughed

and scorned its power

had I ever been serious

had I ever meant it

had that column ever been straight

was I the one who'd bent it

but the guy that told that tale

left the wife and kid behind

however I might slice it

I could never be that kind

but somewhere man

in the next eleven

hell I've got to figure

my own ladder up to heaven

what

2.3110 : 11/07/13 : Partners in Rhyme

So Lou Reed's slamming

with the ancestors now

Lord Lou look down on me

and my weakness empower

with a whisper a new and

never heard rhyme

What about it partner

does it ring a chime

In the shadows of those

I'm unfit to sweep up

in my towering insufficiency

why do I still try to keep up

At long last have I

nothing but the gimmick

the Ghost of Lou Reed

as usual is inimical

what

2.3109 : 11/06/13 : Real Flight

Maybe now the real fight

the real flight to Egypt

or in this allegory

maybe Canada's the story

and the reason they tripped

is not quite as noble

this global shell game

Spit on my hands

and point to the stands

and they'll all say my name

and then the real fight

the daily call to right

Comes calling

I can act soft or rough

throw away the guff: it brooks no stalling

what

2.3108 : 11/05/13 : Cycles Vicious

Feeling the cycles

vicious in the repetitions

the want to stop

the crazy machine

we're all on it

and yelling won't do anything

the bad stretch

always under the weather

how does everybody

keep it together

hope there's a bigger thing

a gear to engage

depart the cycles vicious

spin up a golden age

what

2.3107 : 11/04/13 : Baggage

The thing I forgot about

the traveling

how you dither back and forth

forget a thousand things

and how you fret over the lists

back in the baggage car

and how when you finally get there,

there you are

not being a sage

not being a wise one

I forget my lessons, mistake

the finger for the sun

I forget what's me

and what's the baggage

and dish another bowl

of boiled cabbage

what

2.3106 : 11/03/13 : Fix

Fix little things

if that's what presents

could use some fixing

I've got presentiments

of some days abed

Waiting up for me

I just keep fixing

as I'm drifting out to sea

what

2.3105 : 11/02/13 : So Me

This hideous affliction

is just so me

think about a tadpole

and a bumblebee

always transforming

flying all mysterious

always navigating

through this fog most furious

give me a centimeter

and a gram of force

and a solar system spanning lever

and a fulcrum of course

and a place to stand

and a signal to start

and so help me God

I'll finally move your heart

what

2.3104 : 11/01/13 : Off To a Rousing Start

Rampant sickness

dismal work

try to do it all

still come off as a jerk

off to a rousing start

bold adventure

voyage of discovery

or maybe

an indenture

I suppose nobody ever

felt it all the time

suppose that if I scrape away

the rust and grime

I might find a living engine yet

beating slow but sure

what can I do but press on

try to keep my motives pure

what

2.3103 : 10/31/13 : And a Third

Twenty four hundred

minus fourteen and a third

the math don't work out

it's not base ten, word?

Sad as most anything

you might have heard

What might not ever be

one act, two

dare I ask for a third one?

seems like I designed

for failure from word one

they should make stories like that

but I never heard one

and a third's a tall order

but I'm a clever bee

I'll tell a tale how past a fail

a third one stuck

I'm on a long haul Saul

ain't no word one shuck

after all the arrows you

heard one struck

I named that bullseye

the forever free

what

2.3102 : 10/30/13 : 500 Books

Here's a deal

just tell me the first

of 500 books to

slake this thirst

for reinvention

transformation

in a day and change

I want whole recreation

will it be stories

or true events

will it tell technique

or sacraments

at the end of the day

will it show me

how to fly

I've wished it all

my life

and never really known why

what

2.3101 : 10/29/13 : Reinvention

The reinvention didn't start

or did it?

Expected things to change crazily

get it?

I thought what is it this guy knows?

But still the cat gets by on prose

and as long as anything goes

See the other side of my oar

ring the bell: I'm out the door

what

2.3100 : 10/28/13 : Waiting (Lou: 3/3)

Still waiting for the bells, Lou

did you hear

did I ever tell you

I could never put it

quite so bold

and the life I live is quieter

by a hundred fold

Who am I fooling

a thousand at least

and when you're left on this side

regret is a beast

but I don't regret on hour

I spent with you

So thanks for the sound

So thanks for the bells too

what

2.3099 : 10/27/13 : Oh (Lou: 2/3)

Lovely says

Oh

and tells me the news

that falls like a small stone

that's lost from all views

I don't hear a thing

Can't hear the bells ring

So I wait for the depth charge

the artist

the man at large

what

2.3098 : 10/26/13 : Presage (Lou: 1/3)

Did I blow past the presage

Somehow missed you'd hit old age

faded into my background

forgot about that sound

In the cold on a hillside

was a play for all who died

and none said your name

It was later that answer came

no prescience, divining

ever the briar twining

ever the dusky rose

And you knew it, I suppose

what

2.3097 : 10/25/13 : Dollar Origami

How many ways

to fold that little page

I'm up to my hips

in thoughts of sin's wage

Dollar origami

fold my way out of this cul de sac

this shaky tack this back

to back this lousy world of smack

what

2.3096 : 10/24/13 : Feeling

All force feeling

Finally I could understand

while I was reeling

I lost hold of your hand

now I am trying

to fall faster than gravity

all day I'm dying

to beg you just to stay with me

I followed false ways

craved soft and easy bread

Saw no end to days

Said I'll sleep when I'm dead

Should I give up feelings

run the show all on intellect

Should I give up dark dealings

earn back some more self-respect

Nothing's ever easy

nothing ever happens on its own

I hate wrapping up cheesy

and my distrust of hope has grown

but I won't be afraid now

though I am sick and sore afflicted

Here I can show you how

this new feeling's got me plain addicted

what

2.3095 : 10/23/13 : Sucker Bet

It makes me feel a little desperate

I can't tell the difference between a sucker bet

And risking on a path with heart

Neither can I distinguish between

Resisting easy bait from the wicked machine

and just not knowing where to start

What should I consider to be risk

is there any flip side to this mortal disk

The answer seems pretty damn relevant

And maybe there my deficiency is on display

As the noose tightened up on my day to day

This damn room went

and grew itself an elephant

what

2.3094 : 10/22/13 : SLOW

Could I take it real slow?

It sure feels like I have to

Go, go, go

that sparks a memory

that makes me say oh no

But it carries

perspective

I feel the hammer swinging

but that alarm bell I hear ringing

Is subjective

Looking back it wasn't

that I never took the time

but I sure never slowed down

and though I'm guilty of

no crime

I think I owe myself

restitution

just between you and me

and a certain

institution

what

2.3093 : 10/21/13 : Potential

I read about a guy who

found all meaning in potential

there's always some value

to deem perfect and essential

You got your dualist heresy

or monopole hegemony

and me I don't claim anything

no white scroll in my hand to bring

just cooling off here wondering

about today's potential

what

2.3092 : 10/20/13 : Dragon

Does there always have to be

another dragon to slay

Could I be totally done

Forever just one day

When all my effed up birds

Come home to roost

will I beat it with meditation

or by reading Proust?

Will hard work dissolve all barriers

I know it can't always be true

and we can't all be the special ones

but I hope I can still be for you

When all our birds come home to roost

is it really going to be so bad?

does hard work mean a thing in that circus

I wish I knew, I wish I had

what

2.3091 : 10/19/13 : Dirty Jobs

I ain't the first

and not so exciting

but there's always demand

and so I am inviting

You to give me

your dirty jobs

Come on

give them up you slobs

I keep my mouth shut

and I work for a pittance

and when you see my back

You'll say good riddance

to your dirty jobs

hard as nails

and rough as cobs

I'll put the wheel back

on that old wheelbarrow

and cart your sorry ass

back on the straight and narrow

Stay away from dirty jobs

and turn your nose up on me

dear snobs

what

2.3090 : 10/18/13 : While We Wait

Kid

What we doing

in this tacky little place

they're only halfway to our number

and there's folks up in my space

why we have to sit and wait

like little people do

kind of seems like I always feel

like little people with you

I got something

we can do while we wait

uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh

I got something we can do while we wait

it's not little and it's only getting bigger

look at these tacky chairs

why does it smell like that

What's that nonsense you said

what you looking at

kid what you looking at

looking at me that way

where are we going now

I thought I heard you say

Oh baby

I got something

we can do while we wait

uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh

I got something

we can do while we wait

It's strictly first class

wait and see

I got something

we can do while we wait

uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh

I got something we can do

while we wait

It's only getting bigger

girl you're coming with me

what

2.3089 : 10/17/13 : To Earth

What's it worth

once

run to earth

and holed up in some

stone's lee

a little more

for a few of you

a little less

for the many me

I take this fight

to earth

I'll tear

your rarified

schematics

showing the

market's hand

the dismal promised lands

and when I execute it

will be without theatrics

what

2.3088 : 10/16/13 : Stop Fighting Time

And just like that

he says I:

stop fighting time

no more

such thing as a deadline

show me

the beautiful

show me anciency standing

I will stop saying

I'm sick of everything

I will stop demanding

I will stop

fighting time

and make truce with regret

and you're smiling, nodding

but you're

betting against me

I bet

what

2.3087 : 10/15/13 : Moments

I like calling moments

so I'll keep it up

who's going to stop me?

As always only me

never quite all the way

and someday fate'll pop me

time to get called out again

time to give up my friend

or maybe now the long fight

half hopeless half on the make

whatever tomorrow might take

but not another like this night

what

2.3086 : 10/14/13 : Spiral

Smiley on the train

to the click clack box

the man's third life

and the third death unlocks

the ectoplasm from

nostril and mouth

smiley on the train

returns south

The fourth life

meanwhile another man

awakes in a new life

an unnatural span

Confusion in the stockyards

fall into a new past

It's spiral within spiral

but none will last

what

2.3085 : 10/13/13 : Restoration

These layers of grime

are impossible

years of neglect

years of dross and bull

years of abuse

by my own hand mercy

plus I made that

old gypsy curse me

bad habits

and worse planning

plus a mean social arc

a century spanning

but do I give up

on it all, hell no

look up ma

I'm ringing a bell, yo

And singing all

hail the Restoration

kicked off right

with an invocation

rise up rise up

join the restoration

going to be real damn

busy for the duration

what

2.3084 : 10/12/13 : Deep

This double

this triple talk

how many layers

deep?

And to whom shall

we pray?

And for what to keep?

Why did it go

ugly on me

Stoke my ire?

Why do we

why do we

turn so much to fire?

is there really a way

through weakness

ignorance?

will I get what

passes

for another chance

the learning curve

was treacherous

and steep

and I knew every coming

trough

could go very deep

what

2.3083 : 10/11/13 : No Plan

If there's truly no plan

can you still be all right

I think about that one

night after night

philosophers roll their eyes

So simplistic

but get down to my level

try to be realistic

you can't just die

and you gotta buy bread

and even if it's all made

up in your head

you must bow at least

to this idea of a plan

try to make sense of this moment

just anyway you can

what

2.3082 : 10/10/13 : ZIP

Join the null

set end to

end

sixty seconds

per degree I

bend

each day looks

lighter

as I give it all

the slip

ask what I mean

I don't say

won't say

zip

what

2.3081 : 10/09/13 : Hole

However many mental boards

I may nail over that hole

angry at the monotony

the hours that its pull stole

What can I say when its card turns up

I'm mum mum mum

You want to hear a silent thing?

Let me give you some

what

2.3080 : 10/08/13 : So Much Meta

reference town

so much meta

a little from column hell

a little from vendetta

the thing he got I don't got

is there any way to get it

wondering who I could ask

who wouldn't tell me to forget it

do tell me to work harder

just tell me what to do

just tell me what's the ticket

that'll stick to me like glue

what

2.3079 : 10/07/13 : Jack

I had this thing

but I don't have jack

Is it 'cause I don't want to

Was there too much flack

it was just that I

lost all energy

ran out of gumption

chutzpa and synergy

what

2.3078 : 10/06/13 : Everything

Everything's going to

get better, easier tomorrow

everything's going

to get handed me

no need to steal or borrow

no need to think

it'll just be all so clear

Close my eyes and wish:

oh see that ship appear

what

2.3077 : 10/05/13 : Third Time's a Curse

Third time's a curse

but don't call a hearse

I'll half redeem it

with a half-baked verse

the first is a fluke

the second is learning

but do it three times

you know which end is burning

The third time's the curse

don't take it to heart

Push right to the next

dare call it a start

what

2.3076 : 10/04/13 : Not Dead

The tired absurdity

of calling an end

to ends.

the slightly

cleaned up

version

you sell to your friends

the worst case

fright scenario

likely only

in your head

better get on

wake up you're

not dead

what

2.3075 : 10/03/13 : The Difference

Oh right

the difference

the lead out

from the inference

was supposed to

was supposed to

did you want it?

Still it chose you

maybe we all get

the difference then in the last

maybe we all

drag the present

from a fractured past

what

2.3074 : 10/02/13 : Discordant

Get the outside

orderly

ignore within's

discordant tree

No I'm attending

it's just that

I'm bothered by

the fit of this hat

better get

on top of something

check the mess

see what I'm lumping

Your poor discord

lost and lonely

meet up with mine

last time only

what

2.3073 : 10/01/13 : Smaller

Rebel by

thinking smaller

rebel by

unplugging

Rebel by

thinking outside the dollar

see how this engine

can keep chugging

the world's not

run by money

money is a boss

and a bad one

the world runs

on love grit and honey

And the truth's

we've all been had, son

what

2.3072 : 09/30/13 : Cap'n Fraksmackular

There's so many

Supposed to's in this world

my child

not much room is made

for play

or being a little wild

I recommend

investigating transgression

better to apologize

than try to justify

all expression

and I hope to see you

on the arc spectacular

smiling for the cameras

just like Cap'n Fraksmackular

what

2.3071 : 09/29/13 : Forgetting

Getting afraid and

obsessed with forgetting

the obvious fruit

lies unpicked and I'm letting

too much red ink spill

while I strive for a new way

to believe every morning

to arrive at at today

should I know her name

did I see that already

have I written this

written this before

Can I hold steady

as the years do their work

on every foundation

did I write that before,

may I have that vacation?

what

2.3070 : 09/28/13 : Ally

Fed up with the

lingering impressions of dreams

I can't remember

but the feeling that they leave behind

reminds me of

some past regret you know it seems

Sometimes like I have

no ally in my own mind

I know many

by name who surely are on my side

and believe me

that I have true gratitude

and still I need

a true ally on the inside

I know what's required

is more than just attitude

Waking I dreamed

sour pessimism might just carry the day

If I could teach a way

of hope to the dour depressed

physician heal thyself

you know I say it just as you say

your dreams leave an impression

but your dreaming doesn't leave me impressed

what

2.3069 : 09/27/13 : Well In the Heart

I heard of a well in the heart

of the city

my hopes and dreams were large

but my resources

itty bitty

I had to leave with a watch

a razor blade and some string

but I was young

and I said I can do anything

Should I tell you

of the wise old ones

the journey by boat

the swamp oh well I know

you could guess it all by rote

and what a sad state

after all those years passed by

I got to the well

you already guessed it

dry

what

2.3068 : 09/26/13 : Shape

I can almost see the shape

and I thought that it could

make the world right

I could almost see the shape

and I dreamed it was

the end of night

if time were the light

of the fourth dimension

and it shined on our being

shadowed causality: intention

If I could stretch my mind

encompass that shape

reveal the fifth dimension

roll it back like tape

I thought that I could see

it saw into me more deeply

So it began to rend

I couldn't ascend so steeply

What bore down on my mind

and spilled and inky blackness

that poured right out of me

Slumped in brokenness and slackness

what

2.3067 : 09/25/13 : Seven Minutes

This book that fell

out of the sky

they all did

just like magic pie

If you think your special outlook

isn't a story

believe me by the end

of the page you'll be sorry

I give up

I give into the narrative

All characters

the plot line imperative

In seven minutes time

I'll stop talking about

talking about it

Will anybody notice

by the rhyme I bet

you can guess I doubt it

what

2.3066 : 09/24/13 : I Can Do This All Day

You think I'm bluffing

watch then and stay

see how it rolls

I can do this all day

It's not impressive

it does not entertain

I think it's an expression

of the soul's dark stain

I resisted the story

as far too predictable

I resisted the rhetoric

unwilling to inflict the bull

in less than three minutes though

I can drag a spark to you

If you won't fan a small flame up

well to hell with your snark too

what

2.3065 : 09/23/13 : Want/Need

What I want

sorry

sorry

sorry

what I need

thank you

thank you

thank you

I guess I can't

deny

I still am

dope

rockin and fly

and it's another

day

what I need

let it proceed

what I want

toss it

away

what

2.3064 : 09/22/13 : The Measure of Tragedy

The could haves

the should haves

the same refrain

lost time

Genius isn't

what it used to be

my atrocious

your sublime

it's late for this old dog

to pick up new habits

the measure of

tragedy

this scion of giving up

is there

something you're trying to tell me

what

2.3063 : 09/21/13 : Trice

In a trice

the end of summer

and I said it twice

don't want to be a bummer

but it's been

no easy one

Yeah you never said

any would

hey son

what

2.3062 : 09/20/13 : The Rug

So you pull the rug out

again?

I'm so used to it

I stand trotting

So my heart feels

like it's getting squeezed

my gut feels like

it's rotting

So it's me

and circumstance

face to face

hand to hand

I'm so good at

never giving up

this latest twist

finds me quite bland

what

2.3061 : 09/19/13 : Next

I won't even do it

Next

I won't let you see me

Vexed

He's the type that gets what he

expects

this next sleight will leave him

perplexed

what

2.3060 : 09/18/13 : Back to Back

Problems march sideways

back to back

the little ones slip by

the big ones stack

acid eats the newsprint

the microfiche is failing

can't find a drive to read the bits

magnetically derailing

Yet they say they're keeping copies

of every damn thing

they say they're the good guys

but they wear those skull rings

And problems stacked on problems

make me feel so small

I'd like to turn a back on it

but I can't summon up the gall

what

2.3059 : 09/17/13 : Just What I Need

It could be a good thwarting

is just what I need

So despite my reporting

I should probably pay heed

to the messages of dreams

and idle thoughts' transits

Somewhere the seam gleams

but not how my heart plans it

Still the thing that I need

not in ego or wishing

Seeks the fix of my bead

until then I keep fishing

what

2.3058 : 09/16/13 : Artifacts

I can't tell if I'm getting sick

or only pining

All I know for sure is

everyone's sick of whining

So barring economic class insurgency

against the toffs

barring cryogenic

space voyage cruiser take-offs

with no possibility

of leaving here intact

I contemplate the lesson

of the artifacts

Somewhere along the wayback

lost the pressure on my chest

the good old hypochondriac

gave up, gave it a rest

the artifacts all cryptic

tell me nothing new

and I'm surely no world's savior

but I'll see my own

collection through

what

2.3057 : 09/15/13 : Work

At night you fret about

the end of days

Come light all you can

think about

is what pays

a hundred one months

past being any young turk

And there is much more

to life than work

feared pain and

unprincipled reaction

fear being forced into

ignominious retraction

the white horse's sighting

Surely slays shirk

because nothing can

fill a day like work

what

2.3056 : 09/14/13 : God Emperor of Rome

God Emperor of Carthage

God Emperor of Troy

We'll hit a few towns on the way back

What can I say I'm a growing boy

God Emperor of Dresden

God Emperor of Pompeii

Staring at a smoking mountain through dark shades

Wondering how it felt when the sky went away

God Emperor of Hiroshima

God Emperor of Detroit

You been mean and ugly for a long time

and no loopholes left to exploit

God Emperor of Babylon

God Emperor of Rome

The fire wasn't the end or beginning

It fell all the same and so will every home

God Emperor of Rome

God Emperor of Rome

Someday even the names

will disappear like foam

God Emperor of Rome

101 Curious Professions 101/101(fin): God Emperor

what

2.3055 : 09/13/13 : Story

Everyone with a story

lord how many billion

that's not to say a word

about the ghost cotillion

How do we ever get

a single thing done

You have to find a story

to share with everyone

am I naive

oh hey hell yes

am I a punk

still wanting to say yes

don't need fortune fame

homage or glory

just two feet of light

and an hour to tell the story

101 Curious Professions 100/101: Storyteller (II)

what

2.3054 : 09/12/13 : Drill In

Drill in Drill in

is it ever far enough

am I proving here today

that I have got the 

right stuff

Interested in a way

trying not to get hope up

bite the curses from my tongue

Vile I guess I better soap up

I am drilling all the day

I am drilling all the night

growing like an algal bloom

nodding like a paperwhite

101 Curious Professions 99/101: Driller

what

2.3053 : 09/11/13 : Manifest

Make manifest:

maybe time we figure out

that the lone fellow thinking it up

is not what change is about

Are there enough who can

see we don't know how

to open a channel to proceed

are we any closer now

we've had kings and philosophers

teachers and tribes

we've had glutton's banquets

of manifestos and

diatribes

ideology ain't nothing

but the gilt on

I've got mine jack

I've got no manifesto

and I think it's going to

have to be a sneak attack

101 Curious Professions 98/101: Manifesto Maker

what

2.3052 : 09/10/13 : Keep for a While

The day creeps up

on me for once

I guess it's

going

going

gone

the kids

they barely know it

So I'll pass it along

a day

I'll keep for

a while

You can't forget it all

but you can walk on

and smile

101 Curious Professions 96: Keeper of Days

what

2.3051 : 09/09/13 : The Other Early Riser

Part of me

like to be that guy

up before the sun

crafting fresh and fly

like baking bread

like casting a line

it sounds wholesome

it sounds real fine

I made jokes about

the other early riser

up in the single digits

but that weary

hour miser

got here not by getting up

but by not going

down

art imitates life

a bit much

or was it

the other way around?

101 Curious Professions 95: Early Riser

what

2.3050 : 09/08/13 : Professional

Did I sign up

to be the asshole in this

situation

I'm thinking

I just might

go pro with that

professional asshole

sounds like a vacation

sounds like

you might

know this hat

no need for kindness

no need for

understanding

What I got

You know

everybody's got one

while I'm undoing

undermining

underhanding

You all just

kiss my

big hot sun

101 Curious Professions 95: Lawyer? Politician? CEO?...

what

2.3049 : 09/07/13 : Start Fire

Got your friction

got your lens

got your flint

your steel

Start fire

to start the cleanse

I can't tell you

how I feel

You got matches

you got lighters

how you laugh

at my paltry blaze

I'll find my own crew

lovers not fighters

and you'll rue our conflagration

one of these days

101 Curious Professions 94: Firestarter

what

2.3048 : 09/06/13 : Sell it All

Will I be an ad man

sell it all

fossil fuels

the bomb

a bridge

the fall

it's the height

of creativity

in the twenty first

I'll sell you

sugar water

till you die of thirst

101 Curious Professions 93: Ad Man

what

2.3047 : 09/05/13 : Master

Master of the special

and the secret sauces

If your plan was to battle

better cut your losses

because there is no source

like the sauce I'm slinging

and my campaign is clear as glass

despite the mud you're slinging

master of the crane, the wild,

the free style

while you unpacked smack

I went another extra mile

You know just looking at me

is going to make you tired

the time you're on my level

I'll already be retired

101 Curious Professions 92: Sauce Master

what

2.3046 : 09/04/13 : Reprieve

The new

apprenticeship

end of this

era of

admin

and pink slips

I'm in line

and I'll believe in it

I plan to find

my reprieve in it

101 Curious Professions 91: Apprentice

what

2.3045 : 09/03/13 : Age of Adventure

Yeah he's the one

who'll cast up the bones

in the face of every

lazy reporter

who writes that men

no longer have the stones

for adventures of the old order

the day's coming, no -

the day's arrived

the beginning of all stories

it didn't look like much

and not all survived

to this age of adventure

borne on wings of stainless houris

101 Curious Professions 90: Adventurer

what

2.3044 : 09/02/13 : Once Upon a Time

What else can I

feeling a worm,

and no man - I

meditate upon

another day

I put my foot down

and the thing

went my way

I want tales and

adventure

not soliloquy

stark and vital

not ironic

or twee

Once upon a time

I hit on a way

to break out

pray for lightning

to strike twice

for my way

to shake out

101 Curious Professions 89: Storyteller

what

2.3043 : 09/01/13 : Better

I see so many things

I want to do better

am I delusional

a narcissist

living by routine's

sans serif letter

dreaming I'm some kind

of secret anarchist

but this time I need my

real A game

Is it in there anymore

or was it ever?

is it real potential

a battery, a flame

does it just need me to

name and throw the right lever?

no matter if it's time

if I merit the reward

I know at least one path

I for sure can do

I can fake it and

work very hard

hope that's better enough

to do right by you

101 Curious Professions 88: Player

what

2.3042 : 08/31/13 : True Theology

These tales of the

scions of

the natural philosophy

they are another

Scripture in my world

a true theology

And will I write

true tales ever

or even pleasing fictions

knowing I'll never

qualify to

really walk those hallowed jurisdictions

Still I might make

the discipline

a story that could delight

If I keep one toe

in that world

and try and try and try

to get it right

101 Curious Professions 87: Theologian

what

2.3041 : 08/30/13 : Confabulator

Confabulator

in the service of kings

tarnished versions sure

ignoble things

you picks your poisons

and collect your coin

hoping it will kick up

something better to join

hope I end up

with some time to spare

come up with my own

little lies to share

A world of plenty

folks of good will

a common purpose

no reasons to kill

oh sure now that's some

confabulation

but if everything's stories

that's my busman's vacation

101 Curious Professions 86: Liar

what

2.3040 : 08/29/13 : And Everything

Is there any point in looking

for the great in the small

is there any point in waiting

for my starship to fall

Though a little bit of hope

is a powerful thing

it won't get me to life

the universe and everything

I read a story of a man

staring up at all the stars

Such little seeds

turn over such great cards

me I can't say I'm expecting

anything

all I ask for is

a trillion dollars

and everything

101 Curious Professions 85: Hitchhiker

what

2.3039 : 08/28/13 : Folly

Architect of folly

when will it be done

When will I accept

I'm just like everyone

to wit I'm only fit

to get by pushing paper

and there's no slot in

my life to take

an escaper

I built it up so virtual

already can't see the top

and once you get the

knack of it

well how would you

see clear to stop

the method of the architect

the paper scribed

in blue on blue

Someday my own

my lovely one

this folly will

belong to you

101 Curious Professions 84: Architect

what

2.3038 : 08/27/13 : The Axe

I'm trying so hard

not to wield the axe

So hard

not to wield the axe

though the effort

may impose a tax

for the sake of a friend

soft-pedal my attacks

by hell I won't give the topic

another minute

my God the world of time sinks

seems infinite

when people of good will

can't tell who's got

whose backs

Heaven help me you've got to

be careful

with the axe

101 Curious Professions 83: Axeman

what

2.3037 : 08/26/13 : Cookies

Screw art screw science

let's just make cookies

Revolution on the haves

by the just up and

tookies

Mainly

chocolate chip

raisin oatmeal

peanut butter

and snickerdoodle

and man with my

superabundant wealth

I'm gonna turn over

the whole kit and caboodle

Post capitalism

the cookie economy

recreate post humanism

with the invention of the

economnomnomy 

if it seems real stupid

look at the latest platforms

what passes for

representation

screw that

bring on the cookie

reforms

101 Curious Professions 82: Baker

what

2.3036 : 08/25/13 : Guardian

I am I a guardian

of a lost hour

If I were I lost it long past

maybe my fault

comes: the deluge

whether slow decay

or a long blast

maybe I'm losing

another as I drift

fall asleep inside

the flashing light

the one prepared

for me with all special fragments

but I couldn't tell you

because I can no longer fight

101 Curious Professions 81: Guardian

what

2.3035 : 08/24/13 : The Accountants

Blame the accountant

first thing

jail all accountants

failing the amounts

and the

check sums

solve your woes with

claymores

and dum dums

I'm no accountant

I told you

I can't count and

equations

give me headaches

as well as

conflicts

high stakes

oh well

soon it won't be

my problem

yes siree

one way

now or some new way

yeah make

Somebody else pay

101 Curious Professions 80: Accountant

what

2.3034 : 08/23/13 : The Inquisition

I'm not the inquisition

in this

I didn't ask to be

put in this position

I only call

as I see

never once did I

call out anyone for perjury

but I bet I'm going to

get the evil eye

from a few quarters

the unjust

onus

heaped upon we poor recorders

101 Curious Professions 79: Inquisitor

what

2.3033 : 08/22/13 : Dissing the Mob

My gracious manor

my lordship sure

buy what I can't get

by talent pure

not the explanation

just different times

less competition

and better rhymes

o snap

did I compare myself to Tennyson

I just might be

about as close as anyone

not talking myself up mind

just dissing the mob

And it's just me griping

that life's rough as a cob

101 Curious Professions 78: Lord

what

2.3032 : 08/21/13 : My Poison Garden

I've seen what passes

for success

for my kind these days

and there's another

kind but

I can't crack their ways

and there's another

wizards of a language

I don't possess

and what

kind am I

I don't know and am afraid to guess

the little here brigade

the little there

regiment

there's never room left

for me under

anyone's tent

but I can roll this one

up tight in leaves

of my poison garden

pour the resin over

soak it in

and watch it Harden

101 Curious Professions 77: Roller

what

2.3031 : 08/20/13 : Square

Draw a square

two lines

make four

two are clear

but what the others

are for

I'll give you one

though you know

you don't deserve it

and what's left

there

by all light

you better serve it

101 Curious Professions 76: Server

what

2.3030 : 08/19/13 : Nut Shell It

The vitreous crust

of the parasite classes

the change that formerly

moved slower than molasses

has quite reversed

the tide broke and run

The day I made the earth

it had well-nigh begun

They've written scores of books

on how it doesn't work

hardly one on how to fix it

me I'd rather shirk

but I can nut shell it

as easy now as later

we don't need activists

we need an exterminator

101 Curious Professions 75: Exterminator

what

2.3029 : 08/18/13 : Grind

There is a grind to everything

no real comfort in that

Goes from you can do anything

to here, you wear this hat

if you choose to do a thing

say for a hundred and one

don't complain when

you find that it's lost its fun

Back at this square again

the grind drills very fine

I think it's minus one

I know that it's all mine

One last thing on my mind

it's something I can't say

pack the grind in again

it will be back another day

101 Curious Professions 74: Grinder

what

2.3028 : 08/17/13 : Sea Change

What now

oh Lord what now

the knives are coming out

and I'm still stuck on how

I'm jonesing for

a sea change

but I've got no ship

and I can't afford

the terms

of an internship

So how do you learn

So where do you work

What happens when you're too damn old

to be a young turk?

I'll be your apprentice

but I need room and board

and at least a little bit

of gold

to rebuild the private hoard

101 Curious Professions 73: Intern

what

2.3027 : 08/16/13 : Pundits

Curse the pundits

the masters of debate

Their payloads of commoditized

and sanitary hate

God help us this is how

we choose what we all do

the marketplace

the media

the turning of the screw

God help me if I ever

Speak another word

let this be the last of it

that anyone ever heard

don't really mean that one

Couldn't if I tried

things arise and things fall

the pundits and their

packages abide

101 Curious Professions 72: Pundit

what

2.3026 : 08/15/13 : Master

Such a master

when the vultures

cease circling

I appear

have you been fooled

by all my

meekness and confusion

did you almost

come to share my

Good delusion

Every instant

never ceased to be aware

every moment

Oh you know I'm in there

and what now

is a riddle

my joke on the cosmos

why I just

ooze on up and osmose

101 Curious Professions 71: Master

what

2.3025 : 08/14/13 : Epic

Would another epic boot any damn thing

Does anybody want to see me dance and sing?

Did I really used to do it for the band

If so what the hell keeps it it before my hand?

It should be about a story but I lost my thread

Thing's got no backbone surely should be dead

Should I get into structure, the scheme obtuse

Would that nowhere tree fall any harder - what's the use

It's far from epic and redundant to boot

You got to take it out behind the barn poor son and shoot

Put us all out of your misery no one will miss it

What you waiting on now what you gonna kiss it?

101 Curious Professions 70: Epic Poet

what

2.3024 : 08/13/13 : Fortune

Wish I could see

the future

wish I knew the fortune

wish I knew

this bad old world

would manage

on its daily portion

wish I could believe in

praying for a

rich supply

failing that I wish

I could be sharper

but I'm not that guy

101 Curious Professions 69: Fortune Teller

what

2.3023 : 08/12/13 : Chaos Wrangler

Probably

got me dead to rights

guy

no chaos wrangler

well I am

I guess I have to

but I'd rather be an angler

Slow and steady patient type

but I'm not sure

how long I can wait

and the 

unknowing

disorder's

put me into

such a state

101 Curious Professions 68: Wrangler

what

2.3022 : 08/11/13 : Slate

Slate cleaner

hard reset

about the best

I'm liable to get

worn out

and again too late

and my hour is over

and the rest won't wait

101 Curious Professions 67: Slate Cleaner

what

2.3021 : 08/10/13 : Sleight

Rather than come through

here's a little sleight of hand

Talk about what

I won't talk about

hey now let's meet the band

a fan of cards, a little pass

think you're choosing

but it's just a force

I won't fool everybody all

the time

but I only have to

fool myself of course

101 Curious Professions 66: Magician

what

2.3020 : 08/09/13 : Haunt

I'm gonna haunt you

come Christmas Eve

Show you past and present

and still up my sleeve

the darkest future

a real horror-show

if that won't turn you

well I just don't know

101 Curious Professions 65: Ghost of Christmas

what

2.3019 : 08/08/13 : Shrink

I'm no one's counselor

my shit's not together

I'm sure nobody's shrink

barely know what I think

get back up on the horse

follow your light of course

not quite a self-help book

hey I'm still on the hook

will it get better soon

will I visit the moon

go ask your shrink to say

me I'm just here today

101 Curious Professions 64: Counselor

what

2.3018 : 08/07/13 : Trauma

Birth then walking

eating and talking

leaving and schooling

Who do I think I'm fooling

the trauma always builds up

life is a very very full cup

but is it full of wine or vinegar

you want a little water hah right sure

Would I trade it for the big question mark

I think I'll stick around and provoke the dark

it may be Stockholm syndrome still it's true

traumatic life oh I'm in love with you

101 Curious Professions 63: Psychiatrist

what

2.3017 : 08/06/13 : Criticize

Those who can't do it

can always criticize

Hell yeah, me too

It stinks and damn your eyes

never in my life

have I seen such abomination

gotta love the knife

so much more fun than information

every artist needs

nature to provide an enemy

been on the other side indeed

felt the vitriol so venomy

thinking sure I might

just enjoy wielding the lash

Say it should be more than a fight

shit babe I'm in it for the cash

101 Curious Professions 62: Critic

what

2.3016 : 08/05/13 : Works

Ozymandias

got nothing on this

look on these works

yeah that's your pants

you going piss

I'm pretty sure

nobody ever forget me

don't know what you want

but you're sure going to get me

101 Curious Professions 61: Warlord?

what

2.3015 : 08/04/13 : Nanny State

Yeah I could be

deemed a nanny

you should be so lucky

to wind up in my nanny state

Don't you feel strong

independent

Your fabulous fanny

Someday even you

might not be doing so great

If you pick up everybody

when they fall down

will they all just go

tipping off like pins

did we ever give the nanny state

a real chance in this town

I can see the answer by your grins

101 Curious Professions 60: Nanny

what

2.3014 : 08/03/13 : Digging

Scratch scratch

maybe just start digging

like my real first song

what kind of

crazy shaggy dog

I'm rigging

but you never know

how much how much

until you work it, gig it

You never know

how much

you're going to dig it

101 Curious Professions 59: Miner

what

2.3013 : 08/02/13 : Gone With the Grist

Maybe nothing anybody says

means anything just a low-res

simulation

and the real thing

is a snarling dumb beast

that I wanted to believe

didn't mean jack

and the beast was on the attack

and my dumb slack

was its movable feast

So someone said I might

be an essayist

What did he know

He's gone with the grist

And in case you missed it

I'm not much

to speak about

shall I tell you how

to approach a change

tell you which

Seats to rearrange

did I mention that I'm strange

just trying to dredge

one more peak out

101 Curious Professions 58: Essayist

what

2.3012 : 08/01/13 : Again, Solipsist

You called it the whores of reason

You said it not me

I hear the ranks are running over this season

It's work I wouldn't learn for free

I guess it's necessary, I've hired one true

not for myself but there but for the grace

if you get the gist

regardless of what has gotten said about you

I wouldn't bet my life I'll never

need you again, solipsist

Is it really this great law and order

that keeps the lid on this dim crusade

and all you solipsists camping the border

cashing money in on all the haterade

At least I know I'll never join your ranks

one moral screw I needn't twist

regardless of whether the whole outfit tanks

I'll remain my own tame

and harmless brand of solipsist

101 Curious Professions 57: Solipsist

what