2.4257 : 12/28/16 : Prefer

Prefer not to

and since I'm

on my own nickel

I toss one off

to this wind

so fickle

what

2.4256 : 12/27/16 : To Clear the Air

To believe

to keep faith

that the better way

is knowable

that we could

get there

to trust

Someone's turning the lathe

by being smart

and voluble

I could do my piece

to clear the air

what

2.4255 : 12/26/16 : Smaller

Snap back from dumb dreams

now think smaller

please hold you're the

six billion eight first

caller in line

if you still need help

please give up

quicker

nobody changes anything

out out

brief flicker

If only I could just

be happy with that

if only but I'll

always be a

reaching cat

what

2.4254 : 12/25/16 : ALL

I want it all

so sue me

virtue

alse great wealth

to flow through me

long life

great health

up to the last minute

live to 140

big bed big house

die peaceful

asleep in it

and in between

hells yes

giant legacy

historic

majestic

set everybody free

what

2.4253 : 12/24/16 : Spirit

Kid's got the spirit

try not to hear it

like a grumpy old trout

ain't it what it's

supposed to be about?

get out the toys

the flashing lights

I'll get myself into

the spirit yet tonight

nothing bad happens

it's really all quite good

and if you haven't got

the spirit yet you

really should

and as I loop around

quite near it

I get very quiet:

then I hear it

what

2.4252 : 12/23/16 : One or Two

Got through

one or two

so many

more to come

and I'll forget

though I'm not dumb

the new

always rushes in

the blackbirds

and thrushes

win

what

2.4251 : 12/22/16 : Thread

It's by a thread

but this thread and me

go way back

many a day

when it feels the whole thing

has been all attack

the pinch

the twine

are old familiar friends

and it will be there

as I thread

new means and ends

what

2.4250 : 12/21/16 : Black Dog

Still me

and still tussling

with the black dog

still the day mask

still the thick fog

and I don't' want

to sing its song

so so long

so long

what

2.4249 : 12/20/16 : Dark Shots

Keep missing

these dark shots

prospect of the next day

gives me a hard case

of the Nots

but that's dead end

thoughts

I can ill afford

call it a bad job

and hope to

make restored

what

2.4248 : 12/19/16 : Presumed Retreat

I've got the fragility

fit only for contempt

never dare dodge

or claim a gram of flesh exempt

bear my symbolic stature

heaped with blame

mocked for the presumed retreat

but actually immune from shame

maybe even resemble it

too closely for comfort

want to sew a silk lining

on my obligatory hairshirt

no idea if I'm supposed to

read the book or not

Suppose in my presumed retreat

no matter what:

I'm a craven snot

what

2.4247 : 12/18/16 : Latest Blue

So I mounted a defense

against the latest

blue curve

whipped sidearm

at my head

and may I say

I little deserve

but that's never mattered

nor does it

this turn

all that matters

is to face it

and keep my

bearing stern

what

2.4246 : 12/17/16 : Never Good News

Too deep in the numbers

loosens up the screws

never a nice suprise

never good news

But these fugues

in the catacombs

are no cure at all

the sickness in these times

is running wall to wall

ready to bug out

ready to ditch

thinking just one time

let it go off without a hitch

what

2.4245 : 12/16/16 : THRONE

My throne of dominion

is strictly satrical

if ever it were heard of

it would be a miracle

can't be why I get up

though at times

it lets me down

and it's enough

if I still have

a few friends in this town

the spook police

will never try

to depose me

So there are a few

gifts still left in obscurity

and I get to hold court

on my own time

and leave it when

I like

Whatever bell may chime

what

2.4244 : 12/15/16 : Unite

better stand

better unite

because we're in

for a hell of a fight

and you that sit

at that high sumptuous table

you better watch out

for the willing and able

and you ones

kenneled for their attacks

you know you

better watch your backs

we will appear

at first light

and oh you'll hear of it

when we unite

what

2.4243 : 12/14/16 : No Fathoming

Stuck in the cracks again

the broken in betweens

Sometimes there seems a great

void from the last twelve

back to my teens

plenty of cracks in there

no fathoming

what fell through

somehow in all the wreck

it never came to me and you

maybe on the

flipside 'verse

they make a bright lattice

great and fair

shining a perfect light

on every seed that

we cast down there

what

2.4242 : 12/13/16 : Impossible

Plenty impossible

Seems to

contradict the theme

words I

laid down

like heavy cream

thick

and salubrious

in an age

turned venemous

like a light's

switch

praying for a

timely stitch

what

no more fight in my night

"Sack of Hammers" was the final song of Stalk II, volume 2.19 of Songs of Days.

Beginning tomorrow, volume 2.20, Anything is Possible

what

2.4241 : 12/12/16 : Sack of Hammers

Keep thinking I've painted

when I've only drawn a

picutre in my mind

maybe once inspiration

pretty well now

gnawed down to the rind

So these days

a sack of hammers

looking like a PhD

land of the free

Well kinda sorta

marginally

no more fight

in my night

So I'm dwindling

Someday I'll sift around

try to find the kindling

but here and now got to

Stop hammering at

this rock

yet unflawed

Unmoved

Such a crude harsh clock

what

2.4240 : 12/11/16 : Dash

Another dash

I've got no stomach for

but there's the end

and I can't quite

leave off my war

since for your

little talent

I brougth back

five thousand painted squares

just keep me on my legs

a couple score

and I'll bring you

five thousand more

and the measure of a man

When no damn body

cares

what

2.4239 : 12/10/16 : A Shot

Solve it all tomorrow

tonight take a shot

probably another miss

but I might come in hot

the epic poem

for another night

hold out for a different promise

hope's strand slender and sleight

what

2.4238 : 12/9/16 : A Lapse

Was gonna stand tall

but a lapse

Shot my steam

the little ups and downs

some days

make me want to scream

and just once

step into the same stream

but that's just

weakness

and a child's dream

what

2.4237 : 12/8/16 : Bank

I'd almost love

to wipe the memory bank

back about up to

just the last twenty

to be frank

blank all the kid stuff

first love

bullies brains

push and shove

get a pile of books

movies back the first time

and not drop a

day's rhyme

what

2.4236 : 12/7/16 : Come Through

Don't have to

always come through

Cop out fake it

chuck it break it

it'll grow back

always was so wack

still don't understand

what appears under my hand

what

2.4235 : 12/6/16 : Big Snow

We're all far too great

at staring down disaster

every life's one

and another after

after a while it all gets lost

a matter of scale

and so I think

this latest round may well fail

so science pulled the bacon out

again and again

but all the while it's

stoke the fire higher then

and I wish strange twisty

for a big snow

and if it isn't coming

well I just don't know

what

2.4234 : 12/5/16 : Finish

Ignore every finish line

the tale that makes me

pine and pine

no revolutions gonna strike

maybe next year

blank book

new bike

time passes slow

but years fall

like snow

wouldn't want to wish

things back

to long ago

but I'd go

For total recall

at the finish

maybe finally

scale that wall

what

2.4233 : 12/4/16 : Walls

Run into walls

each way I

turn my mind to

and that's on too

and what's to do

but grind through

one day ace

look ahead

it won't last

what you can get

because it's all gone fast

what

2.4232 : 12/3/16 : Posession

If I had posession

oh a thousand things

diamonds and baubles

sure all this

world's brass rings

I complicate

'tis my nature

can't escape the snare

of the nomenclature

but - oh:

If I had posession

be a new sheriff in town

make a name oh sure yeah

colorize

this big ugly brown

what

2.4231 : 12/2/16 : The Night Manager

Only civilization cares

I said it but it was a lie

because I care

and if you need someone

to manage your night

I might be passing by

the gremlin took my

meta mind

I had solid state back-up

take but a fire to mock me

entropy will always stack up

civilization

and I care

civilization

and I care

I won't get by

on the good old blank

stare

'cause next year

civilization

and I care

what

2.4230 : 12/1/16 : Tumble

Forget

going to tumble

right down

close eyes

to the ride

no renown 

no coin

no guide

and where I can't

tumble

I'll slide

what

2.4229 : 11/30/16 : Abide

Can't abide

a minute more

I'll draw or claw

or dig a door

in a dream

or in the cursed

cube

So desperate

they'll never catch me rube

what

2.4228 : 11/29/16 : The Mess It Led To

Need to remedy or redeem

all it ever falls to

or does it only seem

fearing the next

reckoning

and none call

none are beckoning

another falseness

dressed as a passion

so are we tangled

fleeing the ration

that was super sufficient

oh if we only knew

but did not

and the mess it led to

what

2.4227 : 11/28/16 : Grant Me to Defy All Expectations

Grant me to defy

all expectations

give unto me

the wealth of nations

and I'll build a tower

through to the light

above the clouds

on its hill a shining sight

what

2.4226 : 11/27/16 : World Wants Blood

World wants blood

nothing else

violent death

that's all that sells

and I'm no hack

for that ghoul horse

not that anybody's

offered me a sou of course

what

2.4225 : 11/26/16 : Dope

This apperitif is straight dope

tighten up the paper

On your airplane wings

and hope

You never strike a spark

descend the flaming

angel, hark

after such a vision

where to land

open the car window

cruise an airplane hand

no idea how I got here

Where this highway leads

finish your dope

and mind these reeds

what

2.4224 : 11/25/16 : DeepWall

If I could show you

about the deepwall dream

the balcony apartment

the things that were seen

the dose effect

the electric crowd

the exhibition of

the slow and loud

but oh it all led

to a long unmagical day

and oh it leaves me

not wanting

very much, to say

what

2.4223 : 11/24/16 : Ever Loving

I am thankful

why mess it up

with debating the state

of the ever-loving

cup

of the occupant in

chief

or the retail

excesses

time enough

on all the other days

to decry the messes

I am thankful

for all my

many faults

may I carry that

shield

upon the next day's

assaults

what

2.4222 : 11/23/16 : Little Coal

Not caring to fan

the hot little coal

or try to even

see the goal

maybe we can let go

just a night and day

back on the grind soon

anyway

what

2.4221 : 11/22/16 : Free World

Free world

don't squander it

free to roam

free to ponder it

entropy is real

best to fear it

talk of a free lunch

I won't hear it

here to enjoy

here to make a mark

here to start something

here to strike a spark

in our beautiful free world

watch the fires you start

better start acting like you mean it

better start acting smart

what

2.4220 : 11/21/16 : Plans & Ideas

Plans and Ideas

had a million

no followers

and now the tide vermillion

seems imminent

little time to plan

or gin up my reputation

as an ideaman

the real sick bugs

are crawling outta the wood

and if you aren't planning yet

boy you should

what

2.4219 : 11/20/16 : Green Cup

Big disruption maybe

wake me up

no revelation not from

this green cup

a little calm would surely

soothe my soul

tell myself it's just

an object

and no great hole

So very easy

to fall off routine

maybe no shock

will help me view the scene

Still a long road

even to half the way

and all my loose ends

on display

what

2.4218 : 11/19/16 : Grit

Grit my teeth

while I sleep

one more

bad habit

watch that

green turning

ring pass don't

even try to grab it

not tonight

anyway

another iffy day

felt mad enough

to spit

but anyway

I've still got grit

what

2.4217 : 11/18/16 : Stone Age

Knocked back to my

stone ages

power failure

no point in rages

call it a vacation

from the damn tubes

wringing hands

over the wrath of the rubes

worry over Caeser

and the devil's due

the pitiable failure

of my weak kung fu

but at least maybe

I'll make up some rest

since it just keeps coming harder

and I haven't been my best

what

2.4216 : 11/17/16 : No Rolling

No rolling back days

no easy plays

every square

hard fought now

whatever anchors

I've got now

won't drop easy

chains won't

simply part

I guess I ought to be

joyfull

thay I've still

got heart

get a little

get up and go

in this

where it all went

pronounce once last

the thing is an

accident

and get rolling

crest the next hill

It's a little great

and only getting

better still

what

2.4215 : 11/16/16 : White Lies

White lies pile up like

snow that might yet

come the week

Me without crystal ball

though sorely sure

I'd take a peek

running out of reading

recycle or scrounge

something new

hell I need to toughen up

let a few less

white lies through

what

2.4214 : 11/15/16 : Catastrophe

Circle your pointer fingers

shout catastrophe

all faced the wrong way

inward woe is me

will this lazy troupe

get shocked, get back

finally get the message

gather up its damn act

what

2.4213 : 11/14/16 : Thirty

I think I saw my

old age creeping

hit me like a flash

it was coming kind of fast

can't say my reaction

was philosophical

bargains off the bat

surely won't be like that

and you my young one

will flower like

a strong young tree

be chasing dreams

worrying about thirty

barely bear to think

of the surprises

and the crises

drag me back sacred

plant me in my way

roots down in today

what

2.4212 : 11/13/16 : Left In This Heart

Kept heat on it hours

engine hates to start

resign myself

to a hundred pulls

couple billion beats

left in this heart

no pushbutton shit

spite of the battery

no time for wimpy

Self flattery

Hands stretch high

touch me with grace

they'll flinch for sure

at this grim face

what

2.4211 : 11/12/16 : Anything

You can get used to anything

yeah and that's the real scary thing

but here's the hope I want to bring

You can get fed up

with everything - too

And maybe in the

towering pledge

We'll drag it all back

from the ledge

and gain a century's

chance to hedge

or two

what

2.4210 : 11/11/16 : No May

No may

in this month

not merry

how

do you, well

not very

You took

the tower

room

and oh

I abhor

this vacuum

my words

could

never fill

and I spin

them

still

what

2.4209 : 11/10/16 : Little Crazy

little crazy

not just the times

the catalyst

and hark the chimes

but God it's

a delicate fish

and so much balanced

on every wish

what

2.4208 : 11/9/16 : Every Sheep

Not much left

iron church

the battery

close my eyes

while it all

gets scatter-y

half bagged

and half cooked

and oh how every sheep

got rooked

what

2.4207 : 11/8/16 : Called

Called it before

and I'll call it again

I love to call it

before the vote is in

call it joo joo

or a fat dumb hunch

You'll despair what to call it

while I eat your lunch

not even mad

this ain't the end

it's the start

the day my million got down

and started to get smart

what

2.4206 : 11/7/16 : What Will the Future Think

What will the future think

of our little contest

You know I think they'll have

forgotten all about this mess

a bump in one long smear

of shallow drifting waste

hell if they'l mark at all

one sticky lump in the paste

like Rocky said about

water in a black cup

we afford the past no sense of choice

and then I drank it all up

what

2.4205 : 11/6/16 : Genius

Sometimes a glimpse

a little genius flash

feels good okay

but never gets me cash

and never really gels

all fragmentizes

yet I'll be good say thanks

for all little surprises

what

2.4204 : 11/5/16 : Horse

Having worked

like a work horse

deserve

my oats of course

and as to

the usual baloney

blow it off

I'm no show pony

what

2.4203 : 11/4/16 : Evil on the TeeVee

We love evil on the teevee

but it don't stay there boohoo

Yet things stay normal mostly

and I need my teevee kicks just like you

It's a reflection to be sure

well maybe a bit of give and take

evil the abstract clear and pure

impersonal and deadly snake

And the real such disappointment

broken banal gloomy greedy trash

and that fear you ma have an appointment

and some do, and that's the bloody gash

what

2.4202 : 11/3/16 : Life After

I just see

life after everything

no one can

prove anything

to you old

never friend

I'm singing

tried smart

I'll take being kind

the ones we know

only as mind

And like always

nothing in my

hand I'm bringing

what

2.4201 : 11/2/16 : The Big Game

While the big game's

still up in the air

and my level of stress

hell it's just not fair

too many games brewing

bad old world humming

I guess I knew the score

and trouble keeps coming

it's not sewn up yet

me trying to dodge a bad brood

what you get picking favorites

but we're way past mood

must there always be losers?

Oh babe with me you cannot lose

my ear's to the ground

to be sure I'm expecting good news

what

2.4200 : 11/1/16 : Different

Doubt it makes

a bit of difference

but in a bout

of difference

I hung it up

and absconded

not quite satisfied

but unbonded

what

2.4199 : 10/31/16 : Jolly

Despite a brutal schedule

We got jolly on Saint's Eve

and I raise my glass

to our good fellows

Jeff and Steve

Oh bounty of the ferment pile

soon to be squirrels' dinner

and though I could feel low

I'll say I came out as a winner

what

2.4198 : 10/30/16 : Cliff

Some kind

of crisis:

a cliff

step light

pray

for lift

what

2.4197 : 10/29/16 : I May Have Said Anon

I may have said anon

I paid enough in every coin

Nobody cares we're all stripped

Clean before the waters join

and carry us without a boat

to where the driftless time shoals float

and I don't have to

show my work

still from your mug

I'll swipe that smirk

what

2.4196 : 10/28/16 : Concentration

Should have studied

distillation

can't get

enough

concentration

the potency

the solvency

lines define

the golden ration

the essence that

the spark defines

the legacy of

burned wines

but I didn't study

that spirit nation

and now must battle

dissipation

what

2.4195 : 10/27/16 : Impossible

Coherence seems impossible

run ragged circles

till the mighty call

pick up the pieces

till you trip headlong

and so today today no - got it wrong

what

2.4194 : 10/26/16 : No More Downcast

No more downcast

forgetting every past

ignoring future shades

inhabit whole these

present glades

scratch still with me

so the itch insists

endeavor to see nothing

through the mists

all will be as

ever was afloat

and won't contain

this laughter

rising in my throat

what

2.4193 : 10/25/16 : Din

This noise mostly echoes

grows to a din

got to block more and more

passageways

Still it gets in

why am I susceptible

have to fight

to not engage

wrath and knowing

riot and rage

ascend me to the

Sphere of silence

squelch the din

grant me the sound shell

of the terrapin

sink me in depths

unfathomed sunless sea

I won't rise

until you'll run with me

what

2.4192 : 10/24/16 : Polls

Polling up

and polling down

quite a

rolla coasta

for a working clown

the joint got

stone crazy

while my back

was turned

start shoveling

and bailing

and pray

it's not

all burned

what

2.4191 : 10/23/16 : Prism

Refract

through the

magic prism

see

nothing in this

day to be redeemed

no deed

no cataclysm

nothing in this world

but gold

gleamed

what

2.4190 : 10/22/16 : Secret World

The secret world

in full effect

staying up way too late

and getting wrecked

laying vapor trails

sad pathetic

it's all because I missed my chance

to be a peripatetic

no blame

except it's all on me

got to find another

way to be free

that's so secret world

I know of it of old

I better get my shit together

Soon comes the cold

what

2.4189 : 10/21/16 : Abandoned Digs

The abandoned digs

may be no longer

accessible

somewhere an empty

Avatar

abandoned in

the vestibule

are we still in

a simulation

doubtless by

some definition

where are you

old friend

and oh

whither the mission?

what

2.4188 : 10/20/16 : All Chorus

Don't wanna

talk about old symbols

all chorus no verse

I put up with it

up to now

but you know I gotta

break sometime

holy cow

and all considered

you know I could have

done worse

what

2.4187 : 10/19/16 : Plod

Bringing something

thanking God

pretend it's a sprint

this plod

oh I got to

get back on the upbeat

take the take the

wheel Lord

Stuff me in the backseat

what

2.4186 : 10/18/16 : Twin

Pair the identical

hasty unthought

twin of the high time

You tower me Lancelot

got on warped fable

and mixed metaphor

another mute piece

and who knows what it's for

what

2.4185 : 10/17/16 : Didact

I had a feeling

about the didact twin

I know distraction

know when I let it in

and so it goes oh

and rolls oh on and on

the didact and its twin

this wreck's a marathon

what

2.4184 : 10/16/16 : Ghost Touch

Had to fight

to shake off

the ghost touch

Still wasn't right

Well I

don't ask much

this will pass

also

it all does

no reason for

it it's

all just 'cause

what

2.4183 : 10/15/16 : Last I Heard

Feeling rabid

strike, retreat

soon every enemy

at my feet

in dreams

this world no

black and white

nobody likes the story

so I don't write

I like dreams too

perfect world

an old story

round the globe was hurled

now tending young minds

last I heard

and from me

not a word

what

2.4182 : 10/14/16 : Swing

Got plenty of push

but I'm weak on swing

and if you don't have that

You don't have anything

because push is always straight

but the world waves

I have to work so hard

to make up with my clefs and staves

I'm short on branches

Seeking for the vine

Once my source of everything

my anodyne

the center holds

it must have been me swung away

Swing me back

grant me momentum I can trust

grant me rotation

I'll provide the thrust

maybe in stillness

as I least expect

grant that the swing is hard

and grant that it connect

what

2.4181 : 10/13/16 : Time Lost

Wish to say

the last time lost

So weak accounting

further cost

So weak accounting

present gain

fades fails

at the same time again

what

2.4180 : 10/12/16 : No Trips No Wars

I didn't think you

could make me feel any

smaller old friend

but as you near your end

I want to hang up my lute

They ought to clip

a few of mine to

add to yours

no trips, no wars

no harp lyre or flute

So I never had the touch

or worked hard enough

and if there's any such

thing as the tower

your place is ten thousand

above mine

and I just can't imagine

I who'll never slay the dragon

will see many heads nodding

When I sing

my own decline

what

2.4179 : 10/11/16 : Just What Abides

The fall's so far

I fall asleep

dream I'm walking

a tightrope

up an incline steep

I got so caught up

in the oohs and ahs

I forgot to pull

my contract out

read the escape clause

everyone was hot

and taking sides

I was lost in

contemplation

of just what abides

can anything hold up

to the deeptime shuffle

the chaos boys

were grinning

I got ready for a scuffle

what

2.4178 : 10/10/16 : The Stupid

Get the jump

on the stupid

I ain't no cupid

that's not my line

but I

loved the man so fine

one day a freebie

haunt the

heebie jeebie

heard my man

had a stroke

confess I'd dig

a real smoke

what

2.4177 : 10/9/16 : Queer Beer

Drink this

queer beer

label says

anywhere but here

got to wrap it up

So quick

ephemera

and sure it won't stick

what

2.4176 : 10/8/16 : The Young Ones

Load all guns

with soft bullets

let the boys

have their fun

rarely will convince them

anything's

better than a gun

games get less funny

when the grownups play

well they generally

send the young ones

anyway

what

2.4175 : 10/7/16 : Dream of Dreams

Watch eyes blaze light

the dream of dreams

is on tonight

all lost all returned

and over all

the eye blaze burned

the chalices the gorgeous cup

I thought that I

could give it up

but in the dream

of dreams I rose

took cup again

toast upon toast

the way to work

and to behave

time to be stronger

kind and brave

what

2.4174 : 10/6/16 : The Vision of the Door

Sunk deep in the swirl

commonplace

happenstance

a beast and a churl

moony face

ruled by chance

ruled by patterns

don't want to

follow anymore

and done

done done

with the vision of the door

bark like a tree

no use peeling me

no use in conclusion

just swirl

and delusion

what

2.4173 : 10/5/16 : The Tailings

Nailed nothing

just coughed up

the tailings

what's left to say

sameness

failings

what

2.4172 : 10/4/16 : The Next Plate

Too busy living

strange but true

to get wound up

on this hullaballoo

the popularity contest

just got called off

we're going to do it with a top

Just spin that sucker off

there's lots of bad news

I'm restless, adrift

always always waiting

for the next plate to shift

and really shake things up

whoopsie this may be it

I'm too busy living though

to throw a fit

what

2.4171 : 10/3/16 : Long Days

These long days that don't quite end

prolonged with little tweaks

finessed around the bend

but it does not profit

and I feel all lost

And soon come the short days

perpetual frost

400 parts per million

Some saying it's all she wrote

nothing's ever that simple

but those words stick in my throat

and I said a hundred thousand times

there's the end of that

What's next

but these small hour cards

turn up again

and I'm every bit as vexed

what

2.4170 : 10/2/16 : The Matter of the Principle

The matter of the principle

how the hell to sustain

will it ever get better

been too long to skip the refrain

Stacked all up side by side

each moment drop and ripple

Somehow still perched on

this nasty wave

trying to tame the principle

just say I'm stupid

wouldn't behave realistic

just say we're typical

not hard to find the statistic

pushed below the happy mean

by the principle's cruel math

and a bad taste for the finer things

and I'm thrown out with the bath

what

2.4169 : 10/1/16 : Busy

Let me get this

busy biz right out of the way

Some days get tired of

talking like I've something to say

just write the break

and leave the rest

One less thing

to get off my chest

what

2.4168 : 9/30/16 : 12 Transits

12 transits

Well begun

I have seen and

pondered everyone

mark it simple

You've set a perfect pace

and you're the light

the sun to my face

what

2.4167 : 9/29/16 : Every Minute from the Future

Wind down

let it all wind down

abandon all

good effort

become fallow ground

let every vice flourish

oh the easy feeling

to giving into sloth

and stealing

every minute from the

future

every minute from

the herd

surely end up

running

every muttering

a curse word

what

2.4166 : 9/28/16 : PRINCE

Sell a million

year after year

born rich

watch more appear

the unfairness

real but I'm bored now

want what's inside?

fine, go get cored now

you hear these soft swells

time for the big klang

at least you didn't do that

guess I'll leave

that hope hang

what

2.4165 : 9/27/16 : Fairy Tales

As to those

who rework

the fairy tales

maybe they believe

a world freed

from these dumb travails

Maybe they're as cynical

as any rough barker

steering traffic to the

freak show

and the sides getting starker

what

2.4164 : 9/26/16 : A Minute

A minute

called to perform

not much else

to pull out

of the storm

I took my

minute

to polish off

 a tick

of this slow

churning

clock

that's my

only real trick

what

2.4163 : 9/25/16 : Please Imagine

Instead please imagine

a plodding strum

fit to accompany

a tuneless hum

I'm imagining a shipwreck

longing for it

day one again

later I'll throw a fit

what

2.4162 : 9/24/16 : Mush

Doesn't it just

yank all my chains

Don't I have mush

instead of all the brains

Shouldn't I just

pack it up

shove right off

Keep my eyes down

hold back that cough

wheel must not be centered

bellows must be cracked

fountain must have sprung a leak

somewhere way, way back

try to stir the mush up

one original thought

maybe never wanted one real thing

however I might have sought

what

2.4161 : 9/23/16 : Another Seven

5 years scut on the floor

5 years apprentice

Don't speak the language

maybe non compos mentis

So many things

that will never happen

one that always will

this fantasy game

makes decision

a bitter pill

find my own crazy hours

find my galley kitchen

finally end this treading water

never time to get a stitch in

tear gets a little wider

can't think that way by heaven

5 years dirty starting now

and then another seven

what

2.4160 : 9/22/16 : Monocle

Grant me the monocle

a good man

Unbuyable credentials

from a real old clan

no I'm on the other

side of that boot

wasn't meaning to get real

oh well oh shoot

what

2.4159 : 9/21/16 : 500 Years

Foul the future

for 500 years

raising the temperature

water up to our ears

and there's blame

to go around for days

and little rhyme

or reason to who pays

what

2.4158 : 9/20/16 : Nightside

Still too stark

divide

the day

the night side

too simple to

construct

a tale of it

on me I lucked

my way through

many also

fell into

the nightside

and no longer know

where or how I

might abide

what

2.4157 : 9/19/16 : Deal

Get a deal ahead

of the old

fall apart

Kings like me

of putting

the horse before the cart

will find around

the next bend

a message you can't

share or spend

what

2.4156 : 9/18/16 : Mixed

Won't be mixed up

much longer

apply the rule

razor is stronger

to cleave truth

from the dumb block

belay my going

all half cocked

Plumb a line

sun to center

I'll be meek

the good repenter

if you convince me

I'll get at least a slim chance

to kick a step yet

in the big dance

what

2.4155 : 9/17/16 : Not Yet

Oh lord grant me

to stop being a punk

but not yet

the secret world

and all its not so secret junk

but not yet

remind me of 24

years back or so

If I'd dumped the bad noise

and made a real go

can't quite cotton to

the full transformation

but oh what I didn't get

teach me a lesson

bright on today

but oh

not yet

what

2.4154 : 9/16/16 : 7 Year

The seven year cycle

is scratching at me

These pendulum hooks

always catching at me

and the whispers make

me get down at the heels

and forever thinking

on these spinning wheels

7 years again and again

and how many more

between less than one

and less than a hundred seems pretty sure

please don't even

get me started on eternity

rivers lost in the

fog of the burning puzzle tree

what

2.4153 : 9/15/16 : Ounce

What does this

ounce of prevention

look like?

little too much of

a short pier

long hike

Or more

mirror on

mirror reflection

oh give it a

current a clout

an injection

what

2.4152 : 9/14/16 : Hail

What was the word

hey hail or hist

buried amongst

a thousand reflections

and all in the wrist

what

2.4151 : 9/13/16 : Fey as Fuck

Naw it leans

way farther back

flying

fey as fuck

not a spark

of

planned attack

one hundred

percent luck

what

2.4150 : 9/12/16 : Could Wish

Could wish a couple

days free

I get a half, sick

between this

and the big red stamp

well take your pick

but I can at least

be a little easy homeside

suspect it's coming up

a bit of a weird ride

what

2.4149 : 9/11/16 : Avant-garde

These fields aren't barren

but they hoe hard

nobody said it would be

easy in the avant-garde

nobody appreciates

you'e standing way out front

and all the art we're dreaming up

to take the future's dirty brunt

I'm not young anymore

I'm waiting for my papers

Call me to a desk job

in the rear you bottom scrapers

I need a backup plan

no pension for the lonesome bard

and till they send replacements

I stand my post for the avant-garde

what

2.4148 : 9/10/16 : Catch Fire

Will any of it catch fire

it all seemed such a dry pyre

not now

wet sog

Feeling so often

a dumb slog

still feel a spark in me

some callback to all

hark and free

maybe just a fool

to tales in books

this dust world

travails and crooks

What else

Keep the little stick spinning

no spark yet

but sing loud

like I'm winning

what

2.4147 : 9/9/16 : Sling

Such an expert

at this sidearm sling

catch you all a breeze

and not hit one damn thing

I'll even reprise

give you instant redux

doesn't take much

to get another by you

what

2.4146 : 9/8/16 : DIME

Throw down

that dime

I'm turning

tight

all for real

thrown down tonight

they're not going to

seem me wind

up the sucker punch

and wrap this

whole thing on

a hunch

what

2.4145 : 9/7/16 : Drift

Stop the drift

the shoal

of images

peeled quite

easily

kicked off

and tossed

oh you could

stick around

hope a good

card turns

getting monotonous

but drift round to

all the way round

till the old why

is lost

what

2.4144 : 9/6/16 : WANNA

Every day lately

never really wanna

ain't no conspiracy

me I'm no gunner

taking nothing for granted

I'm bowing out, fast

bring on the big ideas

run up the mast

what

2.4143 : 9/5/16 : Labor Day

No end of labor

whether or no paid

stop acting like

it's anything but choices made

the doctrine of whatever

Comes to this hand

or the other

whether or no planned

giving thanks

for any chance to point it right

giving thanks for labor

day and into night

what

2.4142 : 9/4/16 : In Peace

Go in peace for real

for once

just go

no stress

no dunce

not blind

still facing

facts

allowed for once

to stop

relax

what

2.4141 : 9/3/16 : What Comes Around Goes Around

Take comfort in the fact

that what comes around

also goes around again

the wheel metaphor is

awfully worn

and rusty oh but then

it gets you there

anyway doesn't care

everybody used it to death

the wind the river

the bridge the clock

cup and ring and arc and breath

what

2.4140 : 9/2/16 : Opportunity Comes Small

Opportunity comes

small these days

doesn't really knock

but sometimes stays

for a week or two

gets in the way

follows through often enough

but will rarely pay

Far from too proud

to take whatever I get

feeling on the wrong side

of game and set

but not quite ready

to concede the match

or stop dreaming of one

golden opportunity I'll snatch

what

2.4139 : 9/1/16 : Sonnet

Should really copy a sonnet

out of a book

no real structure her:

So don't look

just keep zigging

because I got no zag

nothing to see here

but trudge and lag

but I won't do this

and I won't do that

so pull another weekend

out of the hat

do what I can

to make it pay

not my line

but then I've come a long way

what

2.4138 : 8/31/16 : Get Here

Fuller of wishes

than I'd want to be

too many crutches

running fast not free

maybe after this round

I'll turn the trick

find that perfect leaf

and make it stick

a lot to let go of

a lot yet to learn

no idea how much time

not a moment to burn

but still having to

say no and no and

no to fear

still wondering

how will it get here

what

2.4137 : 8/30/16 : Business

All the business

crowds out art

try hard to supplement

the losses with more heart

wringing on this stone

with a wretched abandon

scarcely thinking 

anymore

what I'm trying to lay a

hand on

what

2.4136 : 8/29/16 : Papa Benjamin

Ate to dullness

drank not quite

to exultation

ol Papa Benjamin

sure teach you

your station

was cooking something fancy

but it cooled in the stove

a little too apropos

but forget that by Jove

what

2.4135 : 8/28/16 : Queen of Night

Me missing the high notes

by two full steps

too many words

too low concepts

sling a fast prayer

to the queen of night

but I'm coming in low

and I'm keeping it bright

what

2.4134 : 8/27/16 : Going Going

Another that was

going going

gone

tiny bit of history

didn't get along

not about me

not important

So let me step aside

this instant

Most won't remember

and I won't remind

this mystery fruit

has such a bitter rind

and it's surpassing strange

in a past I didn't notice

the sea change

what

2.4133 : 8/26/16 : Tapped

Guess I figure I tapped out

a couple hundred times

with this old-fangled phone

I just kept feeding dimes

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

what I wouldn't give

to connect and inspire

best I manage most days

is to correct and respire

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

keep a bead on the pulse

keep my hands occupied

whatever they'll say

they won't deny I've tried

what

2.4132 : 8/25/16 : Refuse

Say refuse

so say not this

say refuse

and say not that

but can't evade

the cul-de-sac

as back and shoulders

strike the mat

and cannot name

the earthly foe

and cannot seem

to catch the flow

what

2.4131 : 8/24/16 : The Lily

Wrestling foolish

against

considering the lily

don't know why

I'm so

stubborn and silly

all these

riches heaped

around my feet

Still there's

a lot of red ink

and dear Lord

this heat

what

2.4130 : 8/23/16 : However Many Look

Might be a little crazy

with no tale to tell

why take up the quill

rarely goes all that well

however many look

Few see a reason to remain

as I peel another layer

off the old onion brain

what

2.4129 : 8/22/16 : Status Update

Everybody's asking

for status update

Kidding nobody is

asking for that

cooked up a million

got about 7

2 or three are me

wearing a hat

I'm going to

gee I don't know

I didn't forget

just nothing there

at least I'm at large

at least I got pages

at least there's a number

at least there's still air

what

2.4128 : 8/21/16 : Ties

Ties come to surface

tangle up my narrative

old influences

no delusion and no snare to give

makes me want to

give my speech

oh I oh I could a been

a could a been

a contender

for those whose grasp

wasn't backed up by their reach

still I'd rather be

truthful than a pretender

guess I'll try to find

a way to tell the tale

a little less bitter

a little less stale

for the sake of the ties

the old millennium

and I suppose anyway

he's seen plenty of 'em

what

2.4127 : 8/20/16 : Can't Wait Forever

Can't wait forever

Someone to ring a bell

Dinner time or what fresh hell

shore up the memory leak

not one day was lost

and all will be released

with the melting of the permafrost

Whatever can I do but

upload, stream

the ways of this

acquisitive world

makes me scream

and I just have to

build my own

new reason why

I can't wait forever

while forever tumbles by

what

2.4126 : 8/19/16 : Cardinality

jump

speed

Cardinality

Could I ever

make my dumb dreams

a reality?

Slide

dodge

capture the flag

Wallrun

free climb

call it Super Tag

what

2.4125 : 8/18/16 : Hardly Worth

No name for this

mood

no interest

in a

better attitude

tonight

getting me

nowhere

hardly worth

saying

hardly worth

any of this

squealing

and braying

what

2.4124 : 8/17/16 : Decks

Clear decks

for wicked diversions

every dark night

every midnight excursion

shuffle

and repeat

tied up

not dried up

not neat

what

2.4123 : 8/16/16 : The Sellout

The sellout wasn't nearly

the struggle expected

the better not to ponder

what facts that truth reflected

wish the price was dearer

but I picked my door

leave alone the question

what the wind up was all for

Since I couldn't hack it

and make Art pay

I'm stuck wrangling the money

learning how it got that way

and though I can't say

the spark's out and done

I'd rather keep the filthy secret

from just everyone

what

2.4122 : 8/15/16 : Mundane

Guess I got domesticated

mundane

can't get attached

to the old crazy train

radical trips

or Foxfire dreams

thinking maybe it's all

pretty much what it seems

what can anybody do

but stand upright

remembering times long gone

and what's left of old insight

what

2.4121 : 8/14/16 : Ache

Disinclined to fight through

to write through the ache

factor of aging

bad choices, rack

countless other maybes

add up to quite a stack

and I pulled hella duty

so I won't apologize

and I have to move it on

leave the ache where it lies

what

2.4120 : 8/13/16 : Old Tapes

More on the ball

than I thought guess it's something

so spin a little more up

Out of nothing

strange dreaming

listening to old tapes

the hole in history

that yawns and gapes

dreaming about coming

across the real gold stuff

that felt like happened

time to time

but in the real it's always so rough

and so the past

resembles the present

and we find the former's

not so nearly senescent

what

2.4119 : 8/12/16 : Grouch

Guess I better

quell this grouch

kick the lump man

off the couch

spit on vice

and clean house

grasp up my witch-stick

and dowse

what

2.4118 : 8/11/16 : Buy a Little Time

Bigger lists

bigger columns of figures

oh how that footman

shuffles and sniggers

been trying to get

organized

since I was 19

still halfway there

if you know what I mean

If You reached Your

internal pocket

pulled out the lint

You could dust shower me

and no linger skint

indebted, indentured

I might buy

a little time

but You're elsewhere

and I'm still on Caesar's dime

what

2.4117 : 8/10/16 : Can't Wait

Can't wait

for a novel brain wave

you think its great

but who do you

have to save?

plenty, probably

but here's the wrap

glove it up

with a hard slap

what

2.4116 : 8/9/16 : Pusher

Sang many an ode to pushing

didn't really like to talk

about the pusher

the ratatat

the alley cat

well he had a clean pitch

that's one thing for sure

when the ill gets nasty

from tip to top

when you're always thinking

how you've got to stop

pusher is waiting

at the needle drop

triple digit gram vinyl

gloss as black ice

unrelenting:

guess you gotta choose your vice

what

2.4115 : 8/8/16 : Nodding

Can't keep the thread

in motion

tired of beach

and ocean

Losing track

and always

on the nod

nodding

not agreeing

Could be terror

could wind up

freeing

nod along

and keep alert

last century's country

lost our shirts

but turned it over by main course

foiled the robbery of course

what

2.4114 : 8/7/16 : Bad & Ugly

Made it maybe halfway

didn't make it to the cannon

the train, the prison chorus

led by false lights

led by mammon

the destruction of the bridge

ecstasy among the tombstones

guess I've learned it well enough

guess I got it in my bones

the defeat of bad and ugly

who doesn't want that joint

though I saw half just in memory

that was well beside the point

what

2.4113 : 8/6/16 : Cool It

Better cool it

better wind down

I know this corner

I've been this clown

and I don't wait

to pay the full price

because it's never worth it

and it's never nice

what

2.4112 : 8/5/16 : Saw Darkness

Saw darkness

usual sorts

I know my way around

jack of all ports

tale of the

bust up and fall down

hard knock gospel

Cap and gown

You say the story

didn't hang together

died like so many

things of its internal weather

what

Chasing the True Quill

Hmm, well I haven't gone Meta in here in a good while. After finishing the 6,667th song in the planned 10,000 cycle of the second Songs of Day project it seemed like time for a check-in. Two thirds in, 9ish years to go... it no longer feels inevitable that I'll make it all the way. I don't expect to stop writing, more that I could, you know, unintentionally cease to exist. On this mortal plain anyway.

Ah but that was always the deal and I won't dwell on it.  I put song number 2.6667, The Art Century, in observance of David Bowie's album Low (all tied up in the 1001 song project-within-a-project I'm closing in on now at number 935), in the can tonight. And we now resume our briefly interrupted...

what

2.4111 : 8/4/16 : IDEAS

Out of ideas

like that little

bump could

slow me down

I can draw it down

to an instant

and go to town

what

2.4110 : 8/3/16 : Slipping

Got to try

to recall

things are always

Slipping

handful

of half

memories:

hardly gripping

what

2.4109 : 8/2/16 : Swing Late

Swing a late shift and

have to call old rules

counting days

maybe looking for some strength

from old rules

of some other days

saw the preacher at a

greater distance

perspective rules

of growing fame

trying not to grudge

better memories

and glad enough

he's winning at his game

what

2.4108 : 8/1/16 : Glum

Swing a little glum

nothing novel

bad tum

iffy choices vice

always rely

on paying the price

put a little skin in

the game

say your piece

sign your name

Leave the rest to

oh I don't know

hope the name's

not a no-show

what

2.4107 : 7/31/16 : Monster

I'm a monster

but I won't back down

I've every statement

and go to ground

Yell a yawp

I'm crazy happening

and every every cry

I'm grappling

what

2.4106 : 7/30/16 : Decks

Clear decks check boxes

as another time approaches

try to hold steady

as doubt, fear encroaches

the matter of use of meaning

what lesson am I missing or gleaning

pick a night to transcribe and turn in

am I just picking which

time to burn in

Say it ain't so

maybe whistling in the dark

maybe in a year or five

I'll find out if I hit a mark

what

2.4105 : 7/29/16 : What Ghost?

What ghost is it

well I know not yours

Because you left this world clean

and you're not haunting it

So it must be me

some I-once-was kid

had something tossed away

and now I'm wanting it

or maybe that crumb of cheese

or a bowl of ice cream

oh I say I know better

but just look at me

And that mean patrol boy

ain't a haunting sure

but he's looking real prone

to throw the book at me

what

2.4104 : 7/28/16 : INDECISION

Far too late for indecision

but it sure looks like that's

who's hanging on

Still squalling peeking out

the blinds

getting weaker when

I need to get strong

What's the next play

does it matter

maybe the obstacle's

a hundred times the

size of me

and there was never a fight

this or any night

and the

outcome always fait accompli

what

2.4103 : 7/27/16 : Spike

Spike ripped through

to the next day

no muse coming

out to play

so I'm hung up

dangling stuck

you'd almost think

I didn't give a toss for luck

what

2.4102 : 7/26/16 : Break: Amen

Every living day

up at the same break:

amen brother

but maybe it's just

a mistake

seems a stretch

but I'm snatching as straws

trying to weave a little

Gold

attract all you Jackdaws

what

2.4101 : 7/25/16 : Don't Turn

Turn cards

on the table

don't turn a one

no prophecy

nothing new

under the sun

these old

blood yarns

always turn out alike

and new's no

different

new day same spike

what

2.4100 : 7/24/16 : Cracking

All on me

ain't cracking

every day

just get stacking

and when I'm high, high

I'll look around

and hear oh!

what a sound

what

2.4099 : 7/23/16 : JOKE

This joke

my scrawly love notes

backgrounded

by a daydream

of a real master

these days

I guess

they're seldom a disaster

and I

try

try

try

isn't this what really

matters?

and if the joke's on me

I'll put it to a melody

what

2.4098 : 7/22/16 : ID4

I die 4 times

Once drowned in rhymes

Once seething brave

and who could save?

Once by drink and dance

felled like a lance

One real, big black

no wake no coming back

what

2.4097 : 7/21/16 : The Slog

talk about the slog?

talk about the log

left light years back

haunt the aging rack

stuck fork it's done

why another one?

Yet I'll resurrect

whatever it may reflect

what

2.4096 : 7/20/16 : Clouds of Witness

Clouds or witness

or is it witness

of the cloudy

See or obscure

if obvious

choices aren't too loud

deter defer

feel I've earned it if it matters

in the face of most

reasoned thinking

such dissembling shatters

what

2.4095 : 7/19/16 : Don't Look

Can't see straight

don't look great

they all tell

me just wait

what

2.4094 : 7/18/16 : Loophole

I barely recall

the magic loophole gizmo

It's a half forgot fantasy

no shred of reality

I'm not remembering

search back there just is no

real impression left

and I am not a bit bereft

what

2.4093 : 7/17/16 : Sit Think and Listen

Try to listen

sit and think

though I feel a

little rinky-dink

trying hard to sit

think and listen

see what sparkles

what will glisten

any day think

listen and sit

the better part

my tiny chip of it

what

2.4092 : 7/16/16 : Dumb

Make dumb magic

like any other false start

dumb mule persistence

I dare call art

So sweep the floor

and blow the fog out

best step back

before I let this dog out

let the list grow

thousand one and scarce a start

ain't good enough to matter

but oh boy I do got heart

but this pain

is southwards deep gut

it's a dumb thing

my friend

this mute surly mutt

what

2.4091 : 7/15/16 : Period or Question Mark

Period? Or question mark?

just like me to court a spark

and blow it on a little trim

I'm a philosopher not a doctor Jim

and finding a bit too deep

below the surface

is it better or worse

to think we're here on purpose

and I'll put a period on that

take it to the bank

a little too ready

for all the file and rank

what

2.4090 : 7/14/16 : Rambling

Leave my river crossing rambling

in the little book

rain or shine you know me

I can always cook

So take a peek in as

I stir up this pot

Because you know I got a lot

and I serve it hot

Surprise some thought

my rambling days had dried up

some days thought myself

these circuits were fried up

With this and that

up my sleeve

a little half smile

take my leave

and ramble on and up

turn tramp baton and cup

what

2.4089 : 7/13/16 : Fighting

Fighting ain't working

So now what?

Maybe make like a chicken

cluck and strut

Say later later

Only got now

hope this affliction

takes a breather

because holy cow

what

2.4088 : 7/12/16 : Sullen Hook

like a last

sullen hook

cast

rather read my book

but I caught

a wave

another hour

two

I could not save

what

2.4087 : 7/11/16 : Punctuate

So let me punctuate

some willful

swerving

with a twist of fate

glad to see

the end of it

now gentle ask

the old friend

to sit

what

2.4086 : 7/10/16 : To Resist Hate

To resist hate:

darkness -

is it too late

saying never

but do we mean now?

and always left

with how

Must not be left

at that

got to stay up

stand flat

and plan

must, will

whatever will can

what

2.4085 : 7/9/16 : Slacking

Not ready to put

the period on slacking

tasty self-indulgence

fit for snacking

It all adds up

to the ol' zero sum

screw it

I'm just here

to chew bubblegum

what

2.4084 : 7/8/16 : Middle Day

The middle day

must have been the long one

dark shadow of doubt

you backed the wrong one

bitter memory

of when you felt so sure

and every thing to come

you must endure

and can't prepare

except to say

this too shall pass away

blend in among the trees

like the middle day

what

2.4083 : 7/7/16 : Burned

Tell me it's not more

make work

stay awake jerk

Before you get hit

burned

like you never

learned

Oh I could

give up flat

no one would

notice that

no bridge there

to burn

long as I still

spend

and earn

and the latest

burn will fade

here hand me

the goddamned

Kool Aid

what

2.4082 : 7/6/16 : 76

Global movement

number 76

looks like a pack

of words and old tricks

like to provoke

a universal yawn

Whatever why don't

You kids get off of my lawn

what

2.4081 : 7/5/16 : Premise

don't want long thinking

this old premise is stinking

I won't scrape that reef again

deeper channel cotter pin

and a half shank and a cleat

this new premise can't be beat

what they thought was

their own game

blew their stones

right on the frame

what

2.4080 : 7/4/16 : The Iconoclast

If you can't imagine

just imagine I imagine

at the distant breaking boundary

of the examined

still more like crude magic

if you're so inclined

so all advanced apace

and every impulse left a trace

the sacred first though

sore diverted to the last

And I am on the track the great iconoclast

grant me to be more like

my ink and paper icon

transcend this greedy age

and leave my own line on the page

what

2.4079 : 7/3/16 : Every Mark

I'll get better timing

I'll nail every mark

we're gonna have a

real good time when we park

I must have said it

oh about a hundred times

I'll say my fair word

When the big bell chimes

And every mark who hears

will get up and follow

I'll show you undeserving fools

but your victory is hollow

what

2.4078 : 7/2/16 : Flipside

No better on flipside

kids always thought

they got the wrong ride

better clear evil

in a dark suit

than the this side record deal

it's fairy loot

what

2.4077 : 7/1/16 : Vacation

Feels like a job

do I get to not do it?

vacation time

and I intuit

find what I'm getting

away from is not me

get back get back

to a truer way to be

what

2.4076 : 6/30/16 : Last Moon

Save the last for

the middle

Hey diddle diddle

Someday I'll see

my last moon

but the lesson I need

is the moment's

dense seed

and I feel I might

get there soon

what

2.4075 : 6/29/16 : Prepared

Forget about

ill or well prepared

not a player

no icon

still not impaired

call it ready

and push on through

holding steady

and it'll still be

me and you

what

2.4074 : 6/28/16 : Wallet

A dozen verses

bible and tao

no band wagon leapt on

long I learned how

better a pick

better two or three

and trust the right strings

will find me

slim fold of papers

in a slim fold of waxed

a book of matches

dry and stacked

slim notes

pencil and knife

enough for a wallet

enough for a life

and not a scrap

of currency

my little dream

of peaceful anarchy

what

2.4073 : 6/27/16 : Next It

Next it comes

to the shake up

the splash down

the adventure

long cooled

and I'm so

over this town

bang on

next it

comes to this slap

we're all fed up

and there's no

end in sight

to this crap

what

2.4072 : 6/26/16 : Wrong Way

A wrong way

knowingly embarked

guess yeah I'll pay

figure what sparked

blaming it on the box

typical though all me

who I think'll outfox

nothing about it's free

dig out that slip

make a record write it

While upon this trip

I'm keeping mum just to spite it

what

2.4071 : 6/25/16 : Jack

They want to switch up

the telephone

headphone jack

the usual

digital

sneak attack

don't let 'em

y'all fight back

fight for your right

to jack

what

2.4070 : 6/24/16 : Back to Real

Lottery thinking

again again

fairly stupid

if not a sin

try to force mind

back to real

but I'll tell you how I feel

I thought it would be

oh, automatic

I'd rise so easy

above the static

thought it would be a ride

instead this white knuckle surf

on a red ink tide

what

2.4069 : 6/23/16 : All Mean

All mean

or was it

all the means

In many scenes

nothing but average

dead with fatigue

and hoping for an intellect

that's in my league

what

2.4068 : 6/22/16 : Candidate

Candidate

for the long box

I did OK

got off

enough rocks

is it halfway

a fifth or third

What else to say

check it: word

what

2.4067 : 6/21/16 : Burn

Played a fool

at every turn

don't want to tell the story:

fuck it:

Burn

what

2.4066 : 6/20/16 : The Alien

The alien studying

the ways of all these

creatures of this

gravity bound race

can you recognize

they are all

different

each one

its own face

what

2.4065 : 6/19/16 : Evaporation

Before another minute

Evaporates

I'll sling this hash

on seven plates

discipline hunger

chance and loss

redemption salvation

and of course

the way across

what

2.4064 : 6/18/16 : NECK

This pain in my neck

reminder of the trek

This journey still raw

the call the deep flaw

Prays sleep will erase

Smooth lines in his face

reset and set free

Sweet though unlikely

what

2.4063 : 6/17/16 : Nuts

Is it will or just

nuts lacking

it's an angry world

and all the yutzes

packing

do you get up

wave a sign

protest

hope to God you don't

run up into some

bro fest

how bad do the

fools

outnumber the wise

and oh God

what's the next

black

surprise

what

2.4062 : 6/16/16 : Work Will Bring

I want not to

talk about this

thing I have

been circling

I will go

and hope for

What I pray more

work will bring

what

2.4061 : 6/15/16 : Soft Blow

This hammer

this soft blow

Come down harder

almost anything

we know

How many

threads

all pulled at once

leaving me under

that hammer

like a dunce

what

2.4060 : 6/14/16 : Tasteless

Tasteless - no

no flavor

Guess I should be

wailing over

all the bad behavior

and the wicked

ways all abroad

demanding answers from

elusive God

Skip the

tasteless observations

and the selfish

gaze

Guess I've just

lost my taste for it

these days

what

2.4059 : 6/13/16 : Success

What would success look like?

transformation?

Recapture 7 years

the true recreation

I can't see the forest

or a hill from this valley

deep in the weeds

and could I truly rally?

what

2.4058 : 6/12/16 : Outrage

Forgot for a minute

the latest outrage

no tomorrow

no blank page

no idea how it could relate

to my next stage

what

2.4057 : 6/11/16 : False God

Trying to kill the false God

but it's holding steady

Swear to Real God I'm trying

It's time I'm ready

I know I could quit it

pull the damn plug

but there's a perverse kink

and I'm all, like, ugh

finish this joint

head for another round

maybe at last again

hear the small still sound

that says: here is your true

I won't speak of it

but I'll bring it all to you

what

2.4056 : 6/10/16 : Accept

Accept this descent

like a great soft hand

no idea

where this strange ship

will land

what will I choose

next to carry

what to drop

what to bury

lack of coherence

well the drought's been long

and I feel a million miles

lost from the tower of song

what

2.4055 : 6/9/16 : Heat

Heat come early

literal and otherwise

I'll sweat it no doubt

blinded in all my eyes

making mistakes

Sliding not striding

try hell where's trying

Where's the thing hiding

the secret strength

Called it the battery

all I see is all head

and a madder see

rising angry to smite

say no to that fear

and all endless night

what

2.4054 : 6/8/16 : Care

Oh right

forgot to care

cheer up

be positive

get anywhere

what

2.4053 : 6/7/16 : Whirl

Always ready at the whirl

get me to the next round

this time I'll dig my heels

not go to ground

not replace vice

or fill old with new

cultivate new ground

and share it all with you

grant me to rest deep

and when the little light is dim

bear it with better grace

and not give in to the grim

what

2.4052 : 6/6/16 : The Letter

Do you send the letter

or throw it out

embarrassed of the

small mind stuff

you blab about

do you start it over

or call a miss

even worse

than the letter: this

what

2.4051 : 6/5/16 : Early Riser, Late Edition

Early riser

late edition

like to say it's the last

but hell

it's just a revision

I got to edit

figure it out

sometime damn early

bound to spout

Early riser

tell my truth

hardly fit in words

Verily

forsooth

what

2.4050 : 6/4/16 : Battery Part Question Marks

The battery

part question marks

little I knew

I started shooting sparks

the fire they set

good God

ah' mighty

and everything

going

to be all righty

what

2.4049 : 6/3/16 : 55

Fifty five

alive, alive

not a simulation

maybe a halfway

thrive

no certainty

all possible

this ain't the hit song

I'm under

the gospel spell

totally caught

nobody cares

and they crowned me king

of the

thousand mile stares

what

2.4048 : 6/2/16 : Tomorrow

Always new bad decisions

Waiting on the good ones

That's about the story

Anything else I should have done

Get me through another day

I guess, worry about that tomorrow

and the reason and the reason

I guess something I'll have to borrow

what

2.4047 : 6/1/16 : Gimmicks

The thing about gimmicks

the thing about scams

Oh my wisdom ain't about

to blow up any poetry slams

simply under compulsion

Looks the same back and forth

and in this honest toiler

just seeking to see true north

what