2.3223 : 2/28/14 : Twist & Turn

No matter how

no matter how

no matter how we twist and turn

the future comes

the future comes

and how it comes none can discern

And but a few

oh but a few

come to it as their own true home

and many here

many now here

will meet it nourishing the loam

if it's my day

it will be someday

I will not fret I will not fight

I will not twist

I will not turn

I'll raise my head embrace the light

what

2.3222 : 2/27/14 : Dice

throw dice

or flip coins

thoughts no guides

the throng it joins

scatter stalks

a turtle shell

been here before

oh hey oh well

better than

the oh the woe

the feelings come

the feelings go

the thought I had

didn't last a day

and what he thought

he'd never say

what

2.3221 : 2/26/14 : Inner Biome

I'm not the ruler of

the world inside me

I can't regulate

my inner biome

there's no answer on

the vast electric reaches

there's no answer in

any ancient tome

we'll probably hand

the worst of us immortality

we never could

make commerce work

with common morality

as so above

as so below

inner reflects outer

and both are laid very low

what

2.3220 : 2/25/14 : Covet

Everyone else's

how'd I dream of starting

too busy to covet

too busy regarding

I have to start

believing my own thing

rejecting all my own fear

that it's a bird has flown thing

what

2.3219 : 2/24/14 : Pins and Needles

Pins and needles

hammers and tongs

my q's are spitting p's

and I've got poems and songs

And once again

I'm calling this shit day one

fill it full of pins and needles

and sell it by the half ton

what

2.3218 : 2/23/14 : Plain Dealing

Put on my stone

no once can say he didn't try

I'm not alone

I'm hardly trying to claim I'm some special guy

I just can't decide

if I'll very be okay with if it's all for naught

I just can't decide

what I might do if I knew I wouldn't get caught

the spirit is willing

but the flesh will never be immortal

the piper's billing

and there's only one escape portal

and I've a feeling

I'll have to settle for a lot of could have's passing me by

but it's plain dealing

and nobody can say I didn't try

what

2.3217 : 2/22/14 : Rectify

Greed

lust

envy

and spite

so unenlightened

so little right

Every turn

another flaw

to rectify

at lest there's

plenty to stay busy

as the days fly by

what

2.3216 : 2/21/14 : Misdirection

I'm hip to my

vandal side's trick

the misdirection

it's a vile schtick

that works too well

my weaknesses

I fear I'll never

reach my peak princess

maybe the distraction

serves a higher goal

soon to reveal the magic trick

the flowering of my soul

what

2.3215 : 2/20/14 : Work Like Hell

I like to eat

I like to ring a bell

I like teevee

I like to work like hell

bred in the gristle

scratched in the bone

I can never finish nor leave it alone

Your recent deprivation

has been awfully cruel

this modern life dishes up

some damn thin gruel

bred in the gristle

scratched in the bone

step back girl when I hit it

you will glimpse the throne

not a glance backward

not a minute more

it's on it's on

get naked on the floor

rip back the flaps

show me your beating heart

better shade your eyes

baby here comes the art

what

2.3214 : 2/19/14 : Pin

I can't put a pin in

what I'm feeling

So step away

half awake

am I dreaming

it's so easy to say

no I'm certain so certain

but in another day

I may face the music

and I just can't stay

what

2.3213 : 2/18/14 : Discovery of Coal

We picked and mined deep

for the black rock

the hottest heat and how

we took stock

all we could do

and to fire our goal

we wrote the book

on the discovery of coal

fire in the boiler

build a head of steam

Watch as the flywheel kicks

and starts to scream

the powers that we have

as yet to tap

this crazy castle's wings

that start to flap

what

2.3212 : 2/17/14 : Pricks

Pricks assail from every which way

I keep kicking but they're not going away

I'd symbolize nine tenths of them with one sign

Something like an S with a double line

Yet still I contemplate no great escape

too bad my ship's made from boxboard and tape

confess sometimes I fear the pricks will fade away

do too good bluffing this weak hand I play

what will I kick at then what will I fight

get left alone with just myself all day and night

night and day after day I ask just the same

can I even give this dilemma a name

is it really indecision is it dimmer tricks

or am I just rolling to escape the pricks

what

2.3211 : 2/16/14 : In Defiance

Am I still in defiance

has it sunk below the surface

One the path of self-reliance

what's my present sense of purpose

If I knew that my story

Would everything just fall in place

God not another word from me

not one expression on my face

let's change directions

in fact let's jump right off the tracks

smash up this hallway of reflections

get so small to slip through the cracks

unnoticed unregarded

hell I only need a little scratch

defiance goes not unrewarded

pass it by I'll hoe my own patch

what

2.3210 : 2/15/14 : Fear

Overcome indecision

overcome fear

can't get more ready

will you just appear

The easy explanation

there's just nothing there

the fear talking sure

but I got nothing to compare

except all things outside

and the measures don't book

and that's probably the end

I'm probably caught on that hook

what

2.3209 : 2/14/14 : Not Perfect

Not perfect

but we try and push on

since you seem disinclined

to get a burning bush on

I'll have to be my own

prophecy

give me a minute

I'm sure something

will come to me

what

2.3208 : 2/13/14 : Circular

It's all feeling a little circular

maybe I'm feeling

like the biggest jerkular

Maybe for once I

can decide not to force or rush

sooner or later some

source I tap has got to gush

what

2.3207 : 2/12/14 : Upgrade

Time to upgrade the operating system

man that sounds great let's do it everywhere

To just sweep away the clutter and conformity

Listen to the roaring crowds the trumpet's blare

Wow can the great be reflected in the small

You know I sure could stand to be optimized

Probably both sides would still get trashed in every forum

Probably I wouldn't really be surprised

Who do I think I am some damn messiah

might as well ask for a million bucks

but while I try to cultivate the aloof attitude

can't help but give a thousand fucks

at every turn this world resists the mighty upgrade

every woman yes and every man

Gosh I just think it sounds so great in every way

I just don't think I'll ever understand

what

2.3206 : 2/11/14 : Janus

Two faced idol

I just can't decide who to trust

maybe can't neither

maybe it's all

an automatic bust

but it's no secret

I got a pile of work waiting

and hell or high water

there's no more time

for hesitating

what

2.3205 : 2/10/14 : Clutter

Will I ever get a leg up

on the clutter

the muttering the

stutter of the

not quite start

am I set up to

accept those joyful terms

across the plains

have I got time

for chasing art

for all the time

spent in quiet

it's been a steady diet

of chattering

a little like a monkey

little cluttered

little junky

Still I dream of

someday shattering

what

2.3204 : 2/9/14 : Hammer

How crazy must I be

to think I'm going to

dodge the hammer

Imagine standing

speaking clearly

but I stammer

the shadow's fallen

over me

the whistle of descent

And I still think

I'll pull a slipaway

I truly must be bent

what

2.3203 : 2/8/14 : Taste

Sweet or bitter

I'm no heavy hitter

but if I say so

I've got a little case

Sure there's no accounting

how little I'm amounting

no and can you

read the toll on my face

what I imagine constructing

or so I'm instructing

oh the beams and berms

it's been scratching in my mind

always a little behind

Since I heard about

a life on such joyful terms

what

2.3202 : 2/7/14 : What Lies Buried

Getting furious

while I meditate

is this a joke

maybe I'm doing great

work it all out

get some air to it

Some days I don't know

whether to stare or shit

Want to vomit up

every poison thought

boy what lies buried

is a juggernaut

ready to erupt

at the drop of a hat

another effort to empty

goes splat

and what lies buried

is a life's work

and sometimes hell

I just feel like a jerk

what

2.3201 : 2/6/14 : Jack of All Ports

No signs, no visions

no relief in any superstitions

Yet it seems that you

refuse to sell me out

impossible, invisible

every day fearing the rout

craving routine

and so out of sorts

fed up with the charge

to be jack of all ports

is this an adventure

or aquatic train wreck

is this terribly clever

or a shambles in dreck?

what

2.3200 : 2/5/14 : Real Magic

What if I can't stop wanting

real magic what then

get used to disappointment

oh well oh well again

there's always a million

things and only time for ten

and never any real magic to help

oh well oh well again

we get by despite

at least until we don't

we can believe despite it all

like a child at least until we won't

close your eyes and wish

and look at once nothing will happen

except the same old same old

oh well, oh well, oh well again

what

2.3199 : 2/4/14 : Extent

Extent isn't

everything

a comfort when there's

such a long line

of bells to ring

there but for the grace

uh oh

here we go again

still a long time

coming, let me

show you history's recycling bin

what

2.3198 : 2/3/14 : Trouble

Challenges

a nice word for trouble

careful what you run from

when we're sifting through the rubble

oh how we'll wish

to be back right here

Small chance of that

So sell your present

troubles dear

what

2.3197 : 2/2/14 : Event Horizon

Just like that you killed the

event horizon

So many lovely things

I had my eyes on

Was that the moment

Where the dark spot was born

and now I know it

Where am I going to blow my horn

You mean to say you've never read

or even saw my great Obscuro

I meant it to go viral man

You know I was so sure, oh

I guess at last I'm going to

have to go and roll my sleeves up

It's a dirty job but

Someone's got to sweep all these leaves up

what

2.3196 : 2/1/14 : Shatter

Don't take on problems not mine

got enough pins to scatter

don't take on someone's smoke

don't dream about shatter

Never let me practice my art

So I must pick up another

trust it will blow in on the wind

trust the spirit the mind's mother

what

2.3195 : 1/31/14 : Honky Tonk

A little of that solo

honky tonk guitar

while you pretend at

better progress

but know really where you are

and when they bring in

that high wistful

violin

you get knocked

back again

The past looks like

a lot of open spaces

but that's a trick

not true

but I've got to

learn something from it

Catch a different view

of tomorrow

of its space

the dark suspicion

it's in front of my face

or twining in my ears

a honky tonk refrain

Oh there I go again

what