2.3560 : 1/31/15 : Hundred Weight (Endless Axis 293/500)

I load my pockets

by the hundred weight

proof against such moments

so don't hesitate

I bet the family jewels

On caverns vast

And how the present

spins the future into past

what

2.3559 : 1/30/15 : Typing Test (Endless Axis 292/500)

Called upon

the typing test

better I guess than an

exploding vest

glance in a mirror

am I the change I'm looking for

get in on this disenchanted

world on the ground floor

I stopped calling out

turned my face

I can't be killed

though I will be replaced

as this flight grinds

to existential arrest

and I go down consigned

to take the typing test

what

2.3558 : 1/29/15 : Course (Endless Axis 291/500)

Just now I need to shut up

and change course:

I need to drink a river

need to eat a horse

I need fire and spirits

in equal portions

a bracer for the shock

and the end of all distortions

what

2.3557 : 1/28/15 : Visionary, Translator (Endless Axis 290/500)

Visionary, translator

stationary

plan hater

gotta drift

mull

flow

I'll spin you when I

Bang

go

Parabolic concentrator

Wide net

fire hose later

Open plan

Open heart

Soon ten years since

I hit start

what

2.3556 : 1/27/15 : 5 Vie (Endless Axis 289/500)

5 vie for frame space

in my mind

Science and Transcendence

And oh how they twine

Ecology and Justice

oh grasping for what's true

and a fifth I cannot name

but I know it's You

I had a dream

awake in light

in a sound of pounding surf

that I cooked up one night

As I felt the five

Grasp and tug and pull

it seems old nameless must win out

but until then my dance card's full

what

2.3555 : 1/26/15 : 24 1 Down (Endless Axis 288/500)

24, 1 down

I professed and promised

Knowing I'm a clown

Playing this pantomime

I was never up to do the time

but I did it anyway

and never really stopped

Or questioned that play

soon 2, 3 4 5

Everyone will pass blankly

I suppose I'll wind up still alive

but I'll pretend it's not a trick

I'll land this one and make it stick

and ride it home on a rail

no more excuses

no more chasing my tail

what

2.3554 : 1/25/15 : Pine (Endless Axis 287/500)

Rushing through a lot

Someday you fear

you'll pine to savor

every rough spot

It doesn't seem nice

and it doesn't seem good

and who the hell are you

to tell me what I should?

And still that

doesn't get me anywhere

I'd love a new routine

or just to sit and blindly stare

but all I've got's this sighing

heaving up forever trying

what

2.3553 : 1/24/15 : Condensate (Endless Axis 286/500)

Stab blind again now

trying to pin the condensate

have I got anything

besides I hope it's not too late

do I believe in the meaning still

as much as in the bitter pill

and if I have to climb this hill

I'll take you all with me I will

Somebody smarter than me

has already tried and failed

and catastrophes come thick

however I might rant and rail

Well here's your little ray of sun

another few is all I'm done

I could be you or anyone

You: have a little crazy fun

what

2.3552 : 1/23/15 : Thread Back (Endless Axis 285/500)

Gotta get up up

pulled that thread back hard

heedless of what unravels

or what it might foment for a bard

lurking in this reproachful tower

dreaming about the manifesto

trying to figure out what's that's opposite

trying to spring the trick hey presto

deliver unto me a vision

Oh I don't believe in any of that smack

it's just a way of telling stories

at least until the thread snaps back

what

2.3551 : 1/22/15 : No Runner (Endless Axis 284/500)

Slow off the mark

and no runner

Never had much luck

except as a gunner

in a war of worlds

back in the tower days

despite it if I could

I wouldn't relive that haze

So what now

nothing but up and out

over the sandbags

fake this savage shout

Until I get picked off

or break through

I spun a lot of tales

but I can't fake you

what

2.3550 : 1/21/15 : Puzzle (Endless Axis 283/500)

Is this a puzzle

or just a mess

I'd get on top of it

but I got so much stress

Will it yield to me

if I sleep on it tonight

wake me with the answer

steady creep from dim to light

what

2.3549 : 1/20/15 : It Makes You Think (Endless Axis 282/500)

It makes you think

about how the time always

keeps slipping

I read a joint about it

Called count the clock

that shit was gripping

wish we could go back

Knowing what we know

It's just impossible

It makes you think

could it be everything's saved

could be all loss is bull

but is the bad saved too

the agony eternal

ever hanging there

it makes me think

it's typical: no

easy answers anywhere

what

2.3548 : 1/19/15 : Battery (Endless Axis 281/500)

Does the battery have enough

charge in in it?

You'd think so it's sure

enough large i'n'it?

What's left that's

penny for a pound these days?

how will I live with it

If my sound dismays?

I pulled the poison plug

jeez 15 years

just have to dodge the random squirts

the imp aims at my ears

started to charge the battery

and now I'm at my peak

and I'll power up your crazy bike

'Cause you're my kind of freak

what

2.3547 : 1/18/15 : Idea Men (Endless Axis 280/500)

Heaven help me and preserve me

from the idea men

a thousand curses on the fools

who live by the damn pen

my left hand in a bloody box

to the one who can sell me release

cast me into trackless sleep

and bid every idea to cease

what

2.3546 : 1/17/15 : TALL (Endless Axis 279/500)

It's a Right

to turn aside

the storybook mentality

all's well, ever

it's a ride

the black and white duality

but things go on

and things occur

it seems you must make

Something of it all

If you somehow didn't

Still be a story sure

and real and made up

seem equally tall

what

2.3545 : 1/16/15 : Retread (Endless Axis 278/500)

Can I just retread

something already said

oh good shall be saved

and every trial braved

the moment it will come

I'll come in proud welcome

retread that line one more day

a dream but hey that's okay

what

2.3544 : 1/15/15 : Target (Endless Axis 277/500)

My invisible target

my highest point ambition

backed into the same corner

try to squeeze past the attrition

with these tricks of lists and schedules

with this magic charm

with so little firm to go on

but be kind and do less harm

I'm up to my neck in it

these worldly ends and means

I'm down here with the plebeians

we're packed in like sardines

and would I wish to swim upstream

oh would I wish to rise

risk getting eaten by a

bigger fish sure no surprise

but my target looms over

Still enticing, lost, unseen

But if I'm to stop shooting blindly

I'm going to need a new routine

what

2.3543 : 1/14/15 : The Chaos Script (Endless Axis 276/500)

I try to tap the leisure well

but all I get's the chaos script

try again try again try again

or so the motivation robots quipped

If I only had a hero's heart

I would just toss it all and write the book

but I want a sure thing or at least some insurance

So I keep searching searching for that hook

what

2.3542 : 1/13/15 : Wondering (Endless Axis 275/500)

Still wondering

what time's made of

and who makes it

Still wondering

what works this thirst up

What slakes it

will I stop wondering

or breathing first

Will time ever

dull this thirst?

what

2.3541 : 1/12/15 : Pithed (Endless Axis 274/500)

After the ice-pick cold

pithed my skull

the leeches drew their blood

and sent me reeling out

for belly full

And pretty soon

got the pick again

it's a miracle

I can still count to ten

and what's the point

of these mundane tales

What's the point of anything

that won't drive sales

I used to think I had

all that jack dicked

but the pings and yarrows

just picked and picked and picked

what

2.3540 : 1/11/15 : Voices (Endless Axis 273/500)

I don't hear voices

no it's more like a hum

lean in and I'll murmur

where I reckon it's from

this kid I know showed me

two mirrors opposed

and the illusion thus composed

two kids

two tin cans

ten billion strings

why in the hell

am I still counting things

wanna get up up

I deny myself my favorite leaf

and the new one I turned over

was bitter

and gave no relief

Soon the black tide

will roll over

you'll laugh but that's my

bright side

I add that one to the

book of searches

and give thanks to my

thick hide

let me lose the marks and reminders

let me find work

and affix the blinders

and let the not-voices

drone and roar

and let me want

for nothing more

what

2.3539 : 1/10/15 : Hand In It (Endless Axis 272/500)

Betrayal and abandonment

make a good tale

Where's your hand in it

Nowhere in these pages

these passages

Guess I got fed up

Guess I said what gives

I made a little noise

I don't suppose you noticed

I guess I'd a been better off

dwelling on the lotus

or the holy writs

or the stars or yarrow stalks

a nasty little voice says

better listen how the money talks

what

2.3538 : 1/9/15 : Riposte (Endless Axis 271/500)

Every vicious riposte

then what I flashed:

the most

savory return of all

hells yeah

the ball

what

2.3537 : 1/8/15 : Volleys (Endless Axis 270/500)

Get lost among the volleys

So many arrows

I dreamed God took a nap

So I had to count the sparrows

as they flew under the shadows

of ten thousand spinning shafts

and I spun my wheels in shallow surf

ignoring my first drafts

can we not call a truce

I get shouted out from all sides

and I should get this act together

Comes more marches, comes more ides

but I'll end up a pincushion

I go out without a shield

and I still can't seem to stomach

Choosing which weapon to wield

what

2.3536 : 1/7/15 : Drop a Dime (Endless Axis 269/500)

Drop a dime

a penny in this cup

I swear to God

I'm going to quit

and give it up

then I don't

then I don't

then I don't once more

and heaven help me

what the hell's in store

the killer cowards

still running amok

still struggling with the

bottom line and feeling stuck

Still get a glimpse of

majesty

through clouds that briefly part

still not quite halfway there

but

it's more now than a start

what

2.3535 : 1/6/15 : All Along (Endless Axis 268/500)

And just like that

I see: all the wrong reasons

and can't recall the right ones

and thinking of the seasons

all gone oh so

Long long ago

then I remember

and it's still

what it was about all along

what

2.3534 : 1/5/15 : Salton Sea (Endless Axis 267/500)

Dreaming real in a

standard fugue

living on the Salton Sea

burning Partagas

only the desert's free

Don't think about 

beating the odds

outlive the good ones

Stuck with the pods

Expire only half old

On the Salton Sea

build parks for kids

Plant a palm tree

what

2.3533 : 1/4/15 : Previously (Endless Axis 266/500)

Back to the square

previously named

well aware of by whom

I got gamed

best at this point

to keep it zipped

someday hard to believe

but this too got shipped

what

2.3532 : 1/3/15 : The Bottom Line (Endless Axis 265/500)

Could I call this progress

the bottom line's not shifting

Should I write the manifesto

could I straight resort to grifting

try to dowse what's in my nature

savage brevity no edits

Someday I'll tip you to the answers

buried in the final credits

what

2.3531 : 1/2/15 : Even So (Endless Axis 264/500)

Why did I sign up for this

valleys and hills

Why are things run by these

hustlers and shills

What will the future bring

do I want to know

hardly caught up again

but I'll keep my resolution even so

what