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