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