2.3374 : 7/29/14 : The Twist (Endless Axis 107/500)

Don't get a snack

Don't blink

You'll miss the twist

And boy it's a thing

that should not

be missed

my misdirections

got your mind

off track

but it comes down

here and

we won't turn back

Oh when you

see you'll

have a good hard laugh

Oh when I write

that crazy

paragraph

just like that

everything

falls into place

just like that

this machine

blasts into space

what

2.3373 : 7/28/14 : Sure Thing (Endless Axis 106/500)

I won't even check it

it's a sure thing

sure jet set

sure sports car

sure sheer bling

in my back pocket

all that time

the pearl of great price

the perfect rhyme

what

2.3372 : 7/27/14 : Mega (Endless Axis 105/500)

I swear next Tuesday

I will go mega

A one in millions day

no nothing regular

You'll never know it

to look at me

The man upstair's about to

throw the good book at me

what

2.3371 : 7/26/14 : Learn to Love (Endless Axis 104/500)

I keep saying I'm done

but I'm back for further punishment

It's been a while now

Guess maybe my sense of fun is bent

You can learn to love a challenge

You can learn to love the wall at your back

If I keep not giving up

How can I really avoid success

At least they'll never say

I got turned back by the duress

You can learn to love hitting your last chip

You can learn to love that last crazy throw

If you learn to love

Despite everything

You can't be beaten in the end

what

2.3370 : 7/25/14 : Invention (Endless Axis 103/500)

my invention

my marvelous machine

will extract sweetness

where there's none to be seen

All will marvel

hell, rejoice

scream take my money

with one voice

what

2.3369 : 7/24/14 : So Good (Endless Axis 102/500)

I feel so good

this must be love again

you're like a free day

a fresh

pad and pen

a clean sheet

and such a fine

idea

oh didn't you

hear baby

the truth will

free you

the second treasure

was a golden quill

a diamond inkpot

oh my heart be still

and when I took it up

my hand: complete

Stand back my lovely

this will

be so sweet

what

2.3368 : 7/23/14 : 1750 (Endless Axis 101/500)

Before I burn

one thousand seven hundred

fifty words

I'll bust a nutty twist

to simply wow the nerds

death rays

saucers

enormous bugs

keep the pulp

trundling

on these outsize lugs

You have to

come up with

about 40 shocks

doors of perception

who keeps

changing the locks

Feel sad my

hammer never

seems big enough

Never give up

Someday I'll truly

have the stuff

what

2.3367 : 7/22/14 : Call of the Wilder (Endless Axis 100/500)

Call of the wilder nature

I can feel it

but can I understand

Given over to a

mundane decade

returns diminished in my hand

tip a dollar to the carrier

tip a dollar

to the waiter and the cook

better save a hundred

for the taxman only

have two bits for the author of the book

Still the call is getting

wilder, louder

something's singing in my heart

I could sing a hundred

Songs about love oh

sing a hundred songs about art

since I woke in a sweat

cold starving

racing pulse hands shaking

the wilder call only

keeps getting closer

with its decision I must be making

what

2.3366 : 7/21/14 : Strategy (Endless Axis 99/500)

I will receive the strategy

In the night electric

one thousand mile metallic silk

spun by spiders eclectic

they trail right into my ear

how they got in there

you don't want to hear

the other ends

plumb the Great Lakes

and oh the twisting path

it takes

at this crisis

my dark gloom

my inner skull illuminated

in a dark room

revealing the strategy

the time and method

in invocation

and the text most blessed

what

2.3365 : 7/20/14 : Sockets (Endless Axis 98/500)

Who threaded my sockets

and what's meant to screw into them

1 means in and 0 means out

but what's lined up to flow through them

I had to block the sockets reading

my receiver waits for feeding

You haven't got the password

I need to kill this thread but can't

I'm Theseus in this pipeline

labyrinth my minotaur extant

So blow up the transmitter

the receiver's just no quitter

Do I unstock the blocks

leave my library unprotected

Damn your inelegance

You single thread sum rejected

Cast lovely perl before you swine

My threads proliferate and twine

what

2.3364 : 7/19/14 : Plug (Endless Axis 97/500)

Thinking bout the plug

and pulling it

on the odd projects

Yeah I'm mulling it

It's not so bad

to travel light

to leave a few things

behind in the night

Suppose I'm worried though

what else is in that bath

am I just running

did I really do the math

because it's awfully tough

to see around the bends

but I'll deal with the plug

and get past means and ends

what

2.3363 : 7/18/14 : Little Bees (Endless Axis 96/500)

All that what

sounds like angry buzzing

is just little bees

they come to pollinate

they aim to please

and what

beautiful flowers will grow

It's hard to see it now

but just so you know

what

2.3362 : 7/17/14 : Stealth (Endless Axis 95/500)

I'm in stealth mode

but I'm flying high

working pro bono

I'm a stand up guy

Won't be chucking bombs

'cause I hate 'em, yo

Packing love and art

holler here I go

while I chase money

sad, yes and health

but I'm not giving up

I'm just rocking stealth

When the moment comes

believe I'm coming loud

and some will look askance

but I'm coming proud

what

2.3361 : 7/16/14 : Lottery (Endless Axis 94/500)

I'll allow you

one last shot

at the lottery

though the statistical ground's

renowned

for the slaughtery

of hopes 

but it's okay

the trying

won't lead to dying

anyway

a little roll roll

a little

push pull

and no harm

no foul

oh unchosen one

if your next move

is throwing in the towel

and moving on

what

2.3360 : 7/15/14 : 10 Treasures (Endless Axis 93/500)

The ten treasures

Yet to be found

in a castle in the sky

so deep underground

I'll whisper every secret

to you alone

the aspect of the first

is a smooth black stone

all that is known of any

is from a picture book

the clues missed by everyone

though so many gave a look

watch this space

in time I'll list each one

before ten score of risings

and setting of the sun

what

2.3359 : 7/14/14 : 3 Miles High (Endless Axis 92/500)

I said it was a roller coaster

right from the start

It wasn't slick

but it had tons of heart

it had its ups and downs

oh hell I slay myself

check out the teevee movie

I'm gonna play myself

once the big hill gets up

about 3 miles high

more than enough

to make you feel sure to die

we've got some twists and turns

amazing yet

I don't want to spoil it

so that's all you get

what

2.3358 : 7/13/14 : Light (Endless Axis 91/500 - Nest 2: 11/11)

And so it's really here

not just a thought

or a worm for my ear

and despite the thorn

I will soak it in

nothing to pay

nothing to begin

grant me this day

light upon light

grant me to give up

in a nearer reach of night

grant me this day

to find my melody

and every point of light

to sing to me

what

2.3357 : 7/12/14 : Sunshine (Endless Axis 90/500 - Nest 2: 10/11)

These persistent visions

are they killing or curing me

are my few fading partisans

supporting or enduring me

No it sure doesn't sound

like an upbeat note

well a few thousand days in

anything gets a bit rote

and sure the sheer volume

ought to give you pause

and you might be surprised to hear

I didn't write in an escape clause

And I may have felt the danger

of letting the sunshine in

but I'll risk the burn gladly

than just let darkness win

and it rises it rises

yes and it rises again

So I pulled a last metaphor out

and pulled its pin

what

2.3356 : 7/11/14 : The Corners (Endless Axis 89/500 - Nest 2: 9/11)

Another long push

I suspect

I've long been the

brick

you reject

but I'm not shifting

I'm building here

and my position

is very clear

start with the corners

What's this puzzle dad

I would have you believe

I would have you be glad

And you're not alone

long as I've will

to push the wheel

watch now I've

brought the beast to heel

what

2.3355 : 7/10/14 : Reprieve (Endless Axis 88/500 - Nest 2: 8/11)

I will be thankful

for brief reprieve

I will wear my heart

on my sleeve

wanting so much

wanting to be closer

and I'm not giving up

no sir

what

2.3354 : 7/9/14 : Flag (Endless Axis 87/500 - Nest 2: 7/11)

Here now may the omens

get all prescriptive

Bad luck dry up

And done with cryptic

A couple good breaks

a little real luck

It is about time

that it gets unstuck

I'm going to stop heeding

the news and nonsense

I'll report back on that

about a thousand days hence

beautiful then

let this flag fly

the symbol of wind's change

and the well cast die

what

2.3353 : 7/8/14 : Uncertain (Endless Axis 86/500 - Nest 2: 6/11)

Uncertain

divided

Lord said he

provided

but I was

uncertain

Who knows what

the curtain

Waited all

before us

could old scratch

ignore us

I doubt it

but strange sea

I'm still here

this change

see?

what

2.3352 : 7/7/14 : Every Good Thing (Endless Axis 85/500 - Nest 2: 5/11)

Every good thing

is found in the dividing

music in silence

this darkness

I am lighting

I turned my face

from argument and bile

and I'm growing

getting greater all the while

darkness persists

oh there's a great light coming

I'll storm very heaven

with this tune I'm humming

it will divide

the old rust from new shine

I'll cut it clean and quick

right here I drew the line

what

2.3351 : 7/6/14 : Long Division (Endless Axis 84/500 - Nest 2: 4/11)

Long division

try to parcel out

the time remaining

ignoring unknowns

try to count

the moonrises

the raining

let me find

a better way

and this time let it

be here

to stay

what

2.3350 : 7/5/14 : Hallmark (Endless Axis 83/500 - Nest 2: 3/11)

In the division

between dark and light

the stroke of something

passing in the night

Left not a thing

there to investigate

embrace the dark and

Set this as a hallmark date

what

2.3349 : 7/4/14 : The Verge (Endless Axis 82/500 - Nest 2:2/11)

Divided and falling

it looked like to me

can you find a bright side there

hmm wait and let me see

we could be on the verge

of learning we must depend

on one another every day

and right on through the end

divided and angry

divided and fall or reproach

maybe the teacher's on her way

incognito, flying coach

come heal our division

reveal common ground

today I'll believe in it

don't let it get around

what

2.3348 : 7/3/14 : The Web of Division Street (Endless Axis 81/500 - Nest 2: 1/11)

Once I thought if it

I found it everywhere

I know they all connect up

in the dark somewhere

And I stumbled in

it tangled up my feet

and I knew I was caught up

in the web of Division Street

we sought divisions

always splitting up

I poured the measure

drained it from the cup

to brace myself for the one I was to meet

they called him the cold lord

and the master of Division Street

but me I'm looking up

I like this clean line

I like the crossing

and I'm getting mine

I sent a flare up

and my help is coming

and on Division Street

every taut string is humming

what

2.3347 : 7/2/14 : The Battlefield (Endless Axis 80/500)

Life is a battle

death is a journey

the way that I see it

I'm no rules attorney

Everyone got angry

shook a fist

when I said he won his battle

escaped into the mist

fearing death

is a superstition

getting off the battlefield's

a holy mission

it does not require death

but you must accept it

that was my secret

until now I kept it

what

2.3346 : 7/1/14 : Completion (Endless Axis 79/500)

So came healing

in every limb and viscera

the work that

started at the center

brought to completion

over years to come

the portal

where we stood to enter

So came transition

the change of the guard

a trick or two

to learn along the road

learn to ring back

a joyful refrain

learn to sing out

without a secret code

what