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