2.3284 : 4/30/14 : With the Heat (Endless Axis 17/500)

You can pack a whole day

into just three minutes

live your life

hold sway

so glad I could

begin it

Attitude turned out

to be

precisely nothing:

an artifact

and I stuffed

three minutes taut

with the heat I packed

what

2.3283 : 4/29/14 : Tremble (Endless Axis 16/500)

This joint's so sweet

it makes me tremble

tremble

try to act cool

try to dissemble

but I can't

I saw a rock

become a fountain

who's counting

my tremblings stopped

my fire is mounting

so listen to this rant

I'm going to get sweet:

Sweeter

make you tremble

to the beat

repeater

Not ever going to stop

Until you're all

rocked out

then I'll tremble

reassemble

and spout

what

2.3282 : 4/28/14 : Thrill (Endless Axis 15/500)

The thrill's still strong

and here's the moment

of the spark

Sure it's brief

but what a flash

and the thrill:

hey what an arc

what

2.3281 : 4/27/14 : Good News (Endless Axis 14/500)

A spell the driest

Hell just made the pie

the highest

and I'm really

looking forward to the good news

I'll act surprised

but it's just sweet how I surmised

that I was ready to start drawing down

Because I have paid all my dues

what

2.3280 : 4/26/14 : The Light (Endless Axis 13/500)

I'm so glad the light's

so very far away

I've got years and years

of it getting closer every day

I'm so glad I took

that awful awful cup

And let you tip it up

I know it's going to turn up

though I lost all faith

that's a gracious paradox

ho hey, yeah thus sayeth

You've heard enough I'm sure

And I say free from fear and spite

leave me to my pining

staring patient at the distant light

what

2.3279 : 4/25/14 : Cheese (Endless Axis 12/500)

Maybe it only 

seems it's going rotten

maybe it's

turning into cheese

maybe it needed to

sit a long time on the shelf

maybe unwrapped

it will be fit to please

I wrote a tall order

a very tall tall order

an almighty

delivery of cheese

hey don't you know

fulfillment is my business

this aroma's

going to bring you

to your knees

what

2.3278 : 4/24/14 : Exact Directions (Endless Axis 11/500)

Discovery is nice okay

the revealed country

the new day

but for those velvet

insurrections

It's nice we've got

exact directions

for the origin of word

the disposition of light

for the precise manner

which I'm a rock you all night

it felt so fine to be sure

So powerful to know

I was backed by such an army

all just waiting for my go

what

2.3277 : 4/23/14 : The Report (Endless Axis 10/500)

We're all going to

get together

so said the report

I'm working on my

attitude

So I bite off

a blithe retort

Show me where

to sign up

show me where

to stand

as long as there's

still a promise

as long as there's

still a land

what

2.3276 : 4/22/14 : True Brilliance (Endless Axis 9/500)

I began

I was so amped

I didn't notice it

you know

this is the prime

this is the bespoke shit

Behold I am

the thing that God

kept for himself

You motherfuckers

screwed it so

He took me off the shelf

I'm here to fix your bust up wagon

here to clean your clock

If you never saw

true brilliance

you're in for a shock

the real joke is that

I'll pass you all unseen

but when the dust

is settled oh

you'll sure see

where I've been

what

2.3275 : 4/21/14 : Sun (Endless Axis 8/500)

Plenty of sun

and none

of promised storms

and twined through all

the patterns, forms

promises of better days

not knowing how

not ends or ways

but in the sun

I thought of one

up the raised sash

and treasure from trash

and spinning every

straw man to gold

and the end of cold

what

2.3274 : 4/20/14 : No Fooling (Endless Axis 7/500)

No fooling

life's been kind

and so much I deem dark

was only ever

in my mind

if the road seems steep

the destination uncertain

well we're still rolling now

and still

no sign of final

curtain

what

2.3273 : 4/19/14 : Imminent (Endless Axis 6/500)

Feeling amazing about

imminent collapse

this whipping party

we'll all sing to the straps

I love an edge

I love a narrow strip

defeat on either side

and the losing of grip

the rhythm bangs

like a two-stroke engine

and the back of my

skull unhinging

chalk this one up

to dancing on lines

cross my fingers as I

tiptoe amongst the mines

what

2.3272 : 4/18/14 : Get Into Now (Endless Axis 5/500)

All this projection

all this futurist suggestion

I can stop dodging the how

I can get into now

nowhere anywhere

but here

nothing at all to fear

but fear

it's all turning out

beautiful

all children bright

and dutiful

all wives of stainless

purity

all comfort, love

security

and this pen

looks like a prow

and I'm right here

into now

what

2.3271 : 4/17/14 : Of Seven (Endless Axis 4/500)

One of seven

of one of two

in a minute I will know

in a minute I will know

exactly what to do

sure at last

confident

surging past

all ghosts of the past

nothing mystic

just firm intent

by main force

the column finally unbent

save the world

or get rich trying

hit it so right

I'll leave you crying

what

2.3270 : 4/16/14 : Than Done (Endless Axis 3/500)

So much easier

said than done

that's all right

because saying is such fun

no harm in saying

it's at least a start

and so I say

come what may

I'll play a part

what

2.3269 : 4/15/14 : Eclipse (1) (Endless Axis 2/500)

Said things would clear and they did

are you starting to believe yet kid

not magical not serendipity

to have missed it would have been a pity

Saw the eclipse one night and late

the mists that occlude heaven's gate

I said I know it all will clear

and so it went and so now we're here

saw the shadow start and creep

worthwhile to keep me from my sleep

saw it redly full occlude

and then I was one happy frood

And cast off all the previous scripts

now happiness will all eclipse

what

2.3268 : 4/14/14 : Unreconstructed (Endless Axis 1/500)

What's that sound you hear?

Rubber hitting road

I am the teacher I appear

Boom! Your head explode

before this unreconstructed

warrior of light

I slapped a meter on

I've just 500 endless nights

I'm ready now

Oh I'll make each one count

haypenny, sou

now there is no amount

too small to matter

too small to help

this life's rich platter

this stark owl's fierce whelp

Endless Axis: 500 Days of Light

brought to you by the Parliament of O.W.L.s

what

2.3267 : 4/13/14 : Miss America

Am I going to Miss America

Honey was it ever there

truly I'm not going nowhere

But maybe it's going to get

pulled right out from underneath me

Dear miss the bliss you bequeath me

What's next it's a cloudy mirror

Future might even surprise me

America you might arise free

what

2.3266 : 4/12/14 : What It Is

thinking my way through

what it is

the parable

the mountaintop

the hers and his

never bought a ticket

but this ride I'm on it

and despite it all

I still do really

care doggone it

what

2.3265 : 4/11/14 : Magical Thinking

Magical thinking

doesn't help a bit

the need's extreme

this age is plain unfit

I am become catastrophe

blind and random

whoever's got the keys

should be forced to unhand them

oh but by whom

and into whose hand?

No glory be here

and no promised land

I promised I'd look up

that I would dream brighter

it's a hard row though

I am yet still a fighter

what

2.3264 : 4/10/14 : Long

Art is long

and I waited half my life to start

maybe it's only two fifths

that might be the scary part

the primary role model

was an abandoning fuck

and there's no much point to a row

when you've only got one duck

oh at least at least

it's not saying this again

better remember small favors

every time I need to count to ten

and another and another

is running long

you might think I'd go obvious

to you I say blong!

what

2.3263 : 4/9/14 : Heavy

Metal raining down

rocks and logs too

forsake history

before it flogs you

bounded by atmosphere

and gravity

What else heavy

can we throw in the cavity?

glass chunks raining down

Steel as well

we've every capability

to make this world a living hell

Why do we go heavy

so easily?

Why don't we have a better plan

than what will be will be

what

2.3262 : 4/8/14 : Gimmick

Every gimmick

every slogan falls down

there's no deus ex

no way out of town

So I guess we just see

and roll with whatever

pray for a pivot

and a place to ply my lever

what

2.3261 : 4/7/14 : Change Everything

The only way

to change everything

is how you look at it

and is that anything

many mystics

gurus and sages

kneeled at many hours

turned many pages

What I hold in my hand

I'll open, release

you can't change a lot of things

but every day you can seek peace

what

2.3260 : 4/6/14 : While the Tea Steeps

While the tea steeps

before the mission creeps any more

I'm going to place a bet

on you and me

If it gets a little old

If I may be so bold

I'll wager another

one day we'll get out

and go free

I'll dodge that hammer

if I end up in the slammer

just a figure of speech

it won't come to that

What I've got a fingertip on

like a mask I'm going to slip on

that which I can both do and teach

is tucked right under my hat

what

2.3259 : 4/5/14 : Quieter

Get quieter

get meeker

get humbler

be only a seeker

always loving

always kind

rise above this

struggling mind

always comes back

snapping striving

too many years of

just surviving

If I could be that kind

would I see clear

ask me next week

I'll still be here

what

2.3258 : 4/4/14 : Crowned

Under the circumstances

I should be crowned

I should be knighted

and well renowned

this is no coddle

for the creative heart

and yet I persist

and each day new start

Oh I know no guarantee

Oh I know its own reward

is it my comeuppance for some future life

hanging hoisted on my own petard

give me faith to believe

just for a single week

give me to hold on one more year

draw the veil and grant me just a peek

and I will go

wherever you might say

swear to me just swear to me

I'll get there by this May

what

2.3257 : 4/3/14 : Of Songs

Of songs I'll say

no more beyond

I only wished to shine

and forge a bond

we're all alone

spinning in the dark

and as noted this

is no walk in the park

And lately all I hear

is the market floor gongs

it sounds like hell

it sounds like a killing floor

of songs

what

2.3256 : 4/2/14 : Threats

Stressing threats

stressing losing bets

Dwelling in every

hasn't happened yet

Dwelling on disaster

the dark age

I'll say no more of threat

I'll turn a page

what

2.3255 : 4/1/14 : Transfer

Noon to midnight

the transfer fails

I better turn it in early

despite lost trails

the first station

is lost in the mist

and the past

is a velvet fist

I am beseeching

no idea to whom

with no hope to avoid

the decline

nor the tomb

but if it's not now

I better make this next transfer stick

and I'm not yet clear

so you better stand back when I kick

what