2.3954 : 2/29/16 : Snap

Game's changed but it's

hard as hell to change the board

5 century legacy

the word spread by the sword

used to think I had an answer

just more kiddy claptrap

I chase the truth around a tree

it always eludes me, snap

what

2.3953 : 2/28/16 : Wreck of Truth

No turning point

or crises

and despite warning

about

futile devices

I'll voice a little

wreck of truth

your way

time ain't going

much of nowhere

and this race

is here to stay

what

2.3952 : 2/27/16 : Moon

Just another rock

I'll never make

So many trips

most never take

Somewhere though

between Mars and the Moon

a steaming silver teapot

and a silver soon

what

2.3951 : 2/26/16 : Vault

Vault the usual

impediment

Only one way

to stay from

sinking in the sediment

keep moving

till you hit solid rock

quick or still

it's all tick tock

tick tock

what

2.3950 : 2/25/16 : The Click

Pitched the click

for that Muscle

schtick

current events

all the latest

too small tents

Shut it off

and power down

too late in the day

to fake a frown

what

2.3949 : 2/24/16 : Soft Rules

Did you come

for the spectacle

surprise just a

receptacle

And what you thought

you'd find here

You'll see if you've

a mind dear

I'm beating down

the soft rules

no time need

hard and fast tools

just get me to

the finishing

to hell all life's

diminishing

what

2.3948 : 2/23/16 : Lash

Just another damn

lash and spur

and every insult

I incur

to hell with all

You devil dogs

just try a mile

in these rotten clogs

what

2.3947 : 2/22/16 : TURN

Don't like it any better

from the other side

the chopping block

the price on every hide

must shut doors

guess I better learn

And hope to roll right

on the next turn

Since we can never

do one thing over

Maybe missed my

chance to be a rover

But turning is the way

of all that moves

And such as we still might

Strike a little gold in our grooves

what

2.3946 : 2/21/16 : Grasper of Empire

Teach me great one

from beyond

the other side of

the great campfire

every illusion

every soft calling

throwing down every

grasper of

empire

too late again

missing my chance for quiet

no reclaiming

but I'll learn this round

not even going to

try to fix it

I'll go peaceful

not a sound

what

2.3945 : 2/20/16 : Curse of Repetition

Call of creation

yields only imitation

curse of repetition

imagine X ten billion

whatever I thought

it was far less I brought

and no crew no team

just me and the eye-beam

what

2.3944 : 2/19/16 : The Kicking

Gritting and

griping

such a one for

the kicking

been here so often

but still feel

the pricking

at my thumbs

my heels

my hackles

Sure the hell am one

for taking up

shackles

what

2.3943 : 2/18/16 : Dim

Time to wipe this

dim biz

I shoulda known

Stay in school kids

I should say

Something profound

or find some sand

and pound

what

2.3942 : 2/17/16 : Rent

Don't call it an experiment

I pray my hours and

it pays the rent

and if it gets a little

Slidey slide

sometimes you know

I've got to feel the glide

Don't dare call me a heretic

You ain't the first

they never made it stick

a little bent well

So's a long bow

I spit my say so

like an arrow flow

Don't call it

a holding pattern

I've just been roaming

with my lonely lantern

maybe someday I'll get found

say I stayed pretty honest

I'll be bound

what

2.3941 : 2/16/16 : Bad Breaths

It's said I can't see

and I believe you

believe me

look for hope

not what you want

to show me

Maybe what you

need

to not show me

what you don't have

So how can I see

lost count

of the bad breaths again

I don't deserve

to count to ten

what

2.3940 : 2/15/16 : Hump

Want to change the frame

but more the shame

heaven knows how I'm

getting over the hump this time

Surely the same refrain

sic transit pain to pain

only to say it

but this output's prime

Have to commit

to another round of it

there's no alternative

we all gotta hump our own hill

Give up blaming fate

get started at a cut rate

And yes I know I brought

it on myself but still

what

2.3939 : 2/14/16 : Love

Love first last

ceiling and floor

If you've got it

you need more

While many say

its age is past

I say its renaissance

is here at last

what

2.3938 : 2/13/16 : Wind Up

If I could get a

wind up these sails

who'm I fooling

as the light fails

Well hell if a man

doesn't want to

sink he bails

moving slow

Someday I'll

have this rig on rails

what

2.3937 : 2/12/16 : Dream

Way too old

to be a protégé

have to make

this mess work out

Some way

see this eye

can you help me

with this beam?

And maybe then

I could see my dream

oh I've been having them

strange and dark

current events sometimes

abstract and stark

no sign at all

of that holy cup

but I gotta soldier on

since I can't

give dreaming up

what

2.3936 : 2/11/16 : AHA

Had a crazy little notion

prioritize, control

leave the Almighty to concern

himself with your immortal soul

and meaning and the big aha

line up ducks and hold your applause

what

2.3935 : 2/10/16 : Views

Question the wisdom

of my views

but I guess everybody

must have some

all the this and that

I heard the news

sometimes never

seemed as dumb

Another thing to give up

by and by

I get hooked easy

and that's no lie

but I'll get by

this or that to lose

always be

another round of views

what

2.3934 : 2/9/16 : Lean

Not lean, not efficient

many days praying

merely to be sufficient

What on earth is this corpus

metaphysical

or for this gross material

standing ponderous and quizzical

I wonder wonder

was it something I ate

for sure a lot of dodgy trim

gets pushed across your plate

and nobody gets to eat

with hands that are clean

and my chance is likely long gone

to evermore be lean

what

2.3933 : 2/8/16 : Charms

Strung six charms

on a silver thread

one was waiting

wee silver bed

one was a plump

little turkey leg

a set dumbbells

on a tiny peg

Strung one coin

no more no less

a silver watch

my minutes to bless

and the last was a square

of flawless mirror

to distill the feelings

till they flow purer

what

2.3932 : 2/7/16 : Calling

So sure I'm envying our

called in their calling

Even if the market is falling

Covet their assurance and spirit

should be there for me too but I don't hear it

did I cross the line some day so far back

some days doubt there ever was a a right track

and if you could clear it up in a minute

anyway here's how I'd begin it

put hand in hand and agree

none will rest till all are free

they'll insist the cost will be appalling

but can't resist the army of your calling

what

2.3931 : 2/6/16 : Sums

Empty disaster

I'm no broadcaster

fear's still there

and nowhere to get

past her

but just to go down

and whatever comes

the fear, disaster

and its sums

what

2.3930 : 2/5/16 : Collect

What would I collect

if I got my money straight

It's all played out

Show up everywhere too late

Stick with the errant thoughts

and little scraps of verse

Less to shovel in the fire

after I'm collected in a hearse

what

2.3929 : 2/4/16 : The Artist

They mourn the arist

on page five

2 years gone

So for us

the alive

bring back a message

little bird little bird

returns as the wind

or so I've heard

what

2.3928 : 2/3/16 : Wreck

Feels like another break point

quick flip the narrative

got this ugly feeling

the condition is inherited

Hour stretched and broke already

chalk it up to weather, man

trip down along the fault line

better pull this wreck together, man

what

2.3927 : 2/2/16 : Bent Schemes

Between the weird dreams

and the bent schemes

I guess life is going on

wish for a book I liked more

And yes a back door

I'd love to get blowing, gone

Got told ditch the fancy flights

Forgo these kinds of nights

guess I knew that prescription

but oh sometimes it hovers still

reminds me of the storied pill

and even yet defies description

what

2.3926 : 2/1/16 : Cost

Sharp and fracture

always the

crash coming

this dreamed

imaginary

electric dulcimer

I'm strumming

this song to

long gone

imagined, lost

this long long

slow

meditation on

cost

what