2.3345 : 6/30/14 : Form Letter (Endless Axis 78/500)

Everything is moving

all at once

and here I was so

worried

Feel like a dunce

thought things were

getting worse

they were getting better

I got the

clean release

in a form letter

It's not so simple as

what will be will be

I gave a few

things up

getting to parity

I'll give a lot more

getting to paradise

It's a process it's

a trip

I wouldn't call it a price

what

2.3344 : 6/29/14 : Technical (Endless Axis 77/500)

I won't get technical

days just begun

I had to jump in early

cause I felt so spun

Feeling every hurt and worry

Fading way back

I see a rising tide of ink

and every drop pitch black

what

2.3343 : 6/28/14 : Better (Endless Axis 76/500)

Knew it would get better

didn't expect it so soon

I dug a tunnel

straight on up to the moon

got asked how in the world

You dig a tunnel through the sky

well you have to build a scaffold

about three miles high

because I had to make an extra big

leap of faith tonight

When it hit me like a brick

everything was so all right

I can wrap it up just like that

I can make the here and now

everything I wanted better

without a bit of fuss nor row

what

2.3342 : 6/27/14 : Its Name (Endless Axis 75/500)

One direction

like time like gravity

always on always present

in every sentient entity

turn towards its object

all anyone can do

I guess its name

Can you

what

2.3341 : 6/26/14 : Everybody Told Me (Endless Axis 74/500)

Everybody told me

there would be days like this

isn't it great

to have friends

who can predict

You could worry

Yourself sick

trying to think

around the bends

Nobody needs to

tell me I'm lucky

I wake up smiling

every day

another day

another stack

So firmly in

the black

in everything that counts

in every way

what

2.3340 : 6/25/14 : Wow (Endless Axis 73/500)

Guess I gotta go

Wow 'em again

holy K kapow 'em

again

I don't even really

need the thing

just demonstrating

I've still got a

hand in

I like a little song

a little dance

a little flirt

sniff of romance

oh I'm going to

leave hearts broken

a shame but hey

my greatness

has spoken

what

2.3339 : 6/24/14 : Two Thousand Hands (Endless Axis 72/500)

The embarrassment

of riches

too many

options

heaven help me

when

I've got to

pick one

wish I could split

into

a thousand

bright parts

I need two thousand

hands to

carry out

all my arts

what

2.3338 : 6/23/14 : Infinity (Endless Axis 71/500)

I've got so much to be thankful for

wait a minute

while I count to infinity

wait half a minute

I'm a count to infinity

don't act coy babe

I know that

you are so into me

I've got so much

to look forward to

wait a minute

while I count to infinity

wait a second

while I count to infinity

already got a job

I think they call it ministry

I've got so much

great stuff going on

wait a second

while I count to infinity

have a second

I just counted to infinity

don't rub your eyes

you just glimpsed

the big sound djinn in me

what

2.3337 : 6/22/14 : Riches (Endless Axis 70/500)

Despite the cares

that kept me up

and woke me up

Despite now everyone's

ignoring my fine

pitches

what I've got going for me

which is nice

is how no one

can divest me of my riches

my riches sleep near

while I work

silently

my riches shine

at me whenever

I look within

my riches

pile so high

in fact they're

inexhaustible

and they grow

each day that

I begin, again

what

2.3336 : 6/21/14 : Guano (Endless Axis 69/500)

Defeat defy the sophistry

the solipsist

One day to find it gone

long lost in mists

Prepare thyself I'll give you two more lines

one day to come across lost

hidden in guano and vines

what will replace

oh know don't even ask

What will arise

let go tomorrow's task

the day with its cares sufficient

I wouldn't speculate

hell it's not like I'm omniscient

but I got faith so I say

get ready for greatness

not bothered a bit by the past

not bothered a bit by lateness

and if you would know the truth

it's all history I don't prognosticate

look back and you'll see it all

in stone like beyond debate

what

2.3335 : 6/20/14 : Reclaim the True Quill (Endless Axis 68/500)

The endless axis

upon which we all sing out

defy the dismal discourse

of squawks and bleating

forgetting gonna bes

leave behind the wannabes

the enemy's right here

and I am defeating

meaning as I say and

What I say is I will

as I stand up

and reclaim the true quill

there must be renewal

there must be restoration

this must be the new day

because I feel so free

vice vanished

a thousand terrors banished

in one clean sweep

I must confess it was me

ascending that slope

come to cure not kill

I hold the universal prescription

in the form of the true quill

what

2.3334 : 6/19/14 : Third (Endless Axis 67/500)

What else

start chewing through the next third

block on block

my block is word

What I bite off

I can chew it

I'm the King of

see it

do it

close my eyes

beheld my hand

by tears blurred

see what's coming

and it's all good

The next third

what

2.3333 : 6/18/14 : Antumbra (Endless Axis 66/500)

Dark in the shadow

who can deny

plenty to fear

plenty reason to cry

I'm a dabbler

a dilettante and stumbler

and I can't see

the ring of light around

this antumbra

though it's there

of that I'm assured

though by hardship

by trouble inured

for a year

half a decade

22 long years

still looking for

the bright edge

upstanding

all ears

through trouble

through sickness

desperation and tears

still looking for

the bright edge

upstanding

all ears

what

2.3332 : 6/17/14 : Phase (Endless Axis 65/500)

Which phase

what a wicked gaze

those dark eyes

long gone

leaving me

a paragon

solid

liquid

gaseous

plasma

cycled through it

all in the

ephemeral phantasma

nary a clue

had I of what was

happening

ignorance was bliss

sure

and I was a

happy king

what

2.3331 : 6/16/14 : Secondary (Endless Axis 64/500)

Secondary crash

failure to take out the trash

well all right

who said all right

who said all will be well

the silver spoon

the shell

Well it is till it isn't

and faintly imprisoned

I wrote one line

than another

and what next then

brother

what

2.3330 : 6/15/14 : The Biggest Lie (Endless Axis 63/500)

The biggest lie

every soul has got one

committed in darkness

or under bright sun

few can place it

few can set a mark

identify their ire

say hey ho hark

I know mine

at the halfway mark

how do I know it

say

ho

hey

hark

Drive an iron stake

and walk away clean

Like Doctah Faustas

cursed

claimed

immortal

and yet clean

what

2.3329 : 6/14/14 : Transition (Endless Axis 62/500)

The old vice the same price

there's a solution but it's not nice

the clean fission the manual transmission

I don't know what I got but I dare call it vision

why not get tight why not light a light

I call myself anything anything but bright

the quick mission you'd ask but you're just fishing

I gave a lot it come own to transition

what

2.3328 : 6/13/14 : Warm (Endless Axis 61/500 - Nest 5/5)

It'll be a warm day

in a cold place

every eye will see

there's nothing to replace

this thing I bring

unparalleled

and if it hides in vasty depths

oh very well

but I get the warm

yeah I get the nest

I'll get every eye to see

we still could choose the best

I'll get on that horse

though I got thrown so much

and so soon you're going to see

that I've still got that touch

what

2.3327 : 6/12/14 : Ride (Endless Axis 60/500 - Nest 4/5)

There's something to like

in a ride

away from eyes

away from inside

let the engine

eat up a few miles

take a half an hour

from these mundane styles

maybe get some

thinking done

wondering what on earth

has now begun

surely it must be

something great

here's to a fine ride

to mark the next state

what

2.3326 : 6/11/14 : Anticipate (Endless Axis 59/500 - Nest 3/5)

I might confess I

leaned too much

upon anticipation

forthwith with the

simple and

quotidian revelation

I need not anticipate

So much because

it's all right now

Again I see

the only way that's free

my hand my sweating brow

and every eye is

turned inside

anticipating the next move

I dropped a needle there

but the beat that appeared

sprang from a wholly other groove

what

2.3325 : 6/10/14 : News (Endless Axis 58/500 - Nest 2/5)

No news

must mean a good word

coming

eyes and wings

all around me

eyes unblinking

wings all thrumming

don't need to

tell me fear not

fear is farthest

from my views

I'm glad for respite

relative silence

long as it lasts

no news

what

2.3324 : 6/9/14 : Nest of Eyes (Endless Axis 57/500- Nest 1/5)

I'm so pleased

to have received

a second chance

here in the nest of eyes

I don't complain

the gain is plain

to be known and

be held to tell no lies

I do my best

don't rock the nest

but I confess

in secret I may dream

held in my heart

the start the art

this jolly act

poised balanced on a beam

what

the secret of the hooky pop

Failing to Forget marked the end of Songs of Days volume 2.16, Wisdom, but we've only scratched the surface of the 500 song series Endless Axis: 500 Days of Light (brought to you by the Parliament of O.W.L.s), an attempt to maintain a spirit of optimism across a protracted creative output, and the longest sequence of the series, although I'm currently engaged in an attempt to write a series of 1001, as long as the original song of the day project.  If I succeed I assume that will become the longest series of the second project, and unlikely to be surpassed.

And so on to volume 2.17, The Right Books, which opens with this quote from "Hormiga Canyon" by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling:

In a hyper inflating cosmos made of humming strings it was crass to expect stability.

what

2.3323 : 6/8/14 : Failing to Forget (Endless Axis 56/500)

Failing to forget

my assertion

to find another

person

in the mirror

come morning

the long habit

suborning

break the law

of ingrained instinct

alternative

still indistinct

but given that I'm

on the fringes

never sure what

swings on those hinges

I'm feeling sanguine

It'll clear up

You want to come

along:

better gear up

what

2.3322 : 6/7/14 : Reminder (Endless Axis 55/500)

Loving this reminder of

that place that I don't want to go

If I wasn't me I'd look at me

and say I told you so

but I gladly give the last word

to the ones who wish to be there

a small price to slip away

get right back to my fireside chair

unlike all the other times

this time I'm never going back

I'll free up so much time to work

you'll pale at how my outputs stack

my learnings and my masteries

I'll be plain stuffed with gold and face

I'd call a shack a palace though

to never more be in that place

what

2.3321 : 6/6/14 : Heat (Endless Axis 54/500)

The heat the beat

the showing up

and putting up

the presentation

and the bootstrapping

a footing up

if the moment ever came

it'll come again

and if you're

getting up a posse

you can't count me in

what

2.3320 : 6/5/14 : Exercise (Endless Axis 53/500)

The exercise

of possibility

just to try things on for size

just for a look to see

it gets a little rough at times

feel the burn and and strain

but it's good to exercise

it's good to train

work out my capacity

to see things the right way

no shortage of upsides

Whatever I might say

So I will walk out upright

with my chin high

merely for the exercise

the effortless serenity

what

2.3319 : 6/4/14 : See Light (Endless Axis 52/500)

Everybody's saying everything is

bound to go downhill

but I'm betting I can roll up come with me

please say you will

Everybody's saying these days they just

can't see the bright side

but I'm up I'm kicking the bed over

because I can't hide

That I can see the light

it's breaking out

spilling around every bend

I can see light

You got to go outside

and open your eyes friend

Oh I can see light

and it feels all right

after oh so long

did you forget anything

could be warm and strong

Everybody told me it was all

just in my mind

Everybody said they didn't say it

just to be unkind

They sure try so hard to distract you

it's just everywhere

inside outside on my good side

If you can't help stare

now that you can see the light

what

2.3318 : 6/3/14 : 25 Revisited (Endless Axis 51/500)

Three years

three weeks

five days fail

to surrender

go back home

is that the tale

3 days reprieve

then end it all

on the second day

broke out of free fall

25 revisited*

the lesson is clear

made it through

that time around

nothing different here

harder the problem

maybe

richer the reward

there will be no retreat

I'm all about

toward

what

(1.578)*

2.3317 : 6/2/14 : Patience (Endless Axis 50/500)

Patience

maybe that's the lesson

I can be okay with the lesson

what there is to

be bright about

you know I'm going to

keep you cats guessing

And you know

I'm feeling my patience

growing roots

getting anchored

do it without

despair or rancor

the lesson

confession

what

2.3316 : 6/1/14 : Not Repeat (Endless Axis 49/500)

The smile on my face is for

the things that I need not repeat

things that rankle things that bore

and all that knocked me off my feet

the sunshine in my heart

in knowing there's no going back

what was construed in art

What rust can't stain nor blackhats hack

now that I have arrived

think on what never to repeat again

the hill up which I strived

risking dissolution, mortal sin

What I will not repeat

by nature you'll just have to guess

the saying ties up neat

though true here on the ground it's quite a mess

what