2.4564 : 10/31/17 : IOTA

Spent not an

iota left

in the bank

best to give right in

 

2.4563 : 10/30/17 : Mirage

Circle that mirage

like a sunstunned leopard

sure as hell could

Use a good shephard

or just a flare up

that I'm free to go

trying to hold it steady

because I may never know

what

2.4562 : 10/29/17 : Seamless

Just cold rain

not quite winter

plug end days

to weld and sinter

not quite seamless

not much of a whole

dead leaves falling

farside of the maypole

what

2.4561 : 10/28/17 : Deep Past

Drift into deep past

dream to break free at last

Why should the moments hold tight

waiting for the tale to get told right

day's hard work bank the fire

done and done get to retire

just for the night more to come

see all try to deliver some

what

2.4560 : 10/27/17 : WON'T

I don't want to

and I won't

You don't care to

ask why: Don't

no payoff

and no punchline

not yours:

also not mine

what

2.4559 : 10/26/17 : Frog

What ought to be

the thrill of the night

goes down like

cold boiled frog

what ought to be

a skip and a jump

every night comes down a slog

every night comes over

my head trailing in fog

what

2.4558 : 10/25/17 : State

How I must rise

against this state I'm in

fight without fighting

so to rise again

How I must pray

with stretched out hand

still unresigned

but oh this state

and its uneasy mind

what

2.4557 : 10/24/17 : Drive By Nerds

Haven't I run out yet

words on words

something to impress

the drive by nerds

rather have a tin whistle

drone by the hour

no bigger audience

but I might be less dour

Could sit for an hour

Won't learn a lick

won't break the cycle

or update my schtick

what

2.4556: 10/23/17 : Snatch

Give me clutch grasp

Give me grab get

I'm not finished

I'm not ready to lay down yet

give me mad snatch

I cook a bad batch

lure in all you itchy itchers

got to get scratch

want to be bad

cause trouble no end

not a good egg

not the boss friend

boy you're dreaming

just the nice type

talk what talk you want

you're never changing that stripe

what

2.4555: 10/22/17 : Ducks

If no declaration

no marking of the crux

maybe still some gathering

and lining up of ducks

incrementalism

hasn't gotten me far true

but must be better than nothing

what else is there to do?

what

2.4554: 10/21/17 : This Way Comes

Is it right to let the boy in on the mystery

of sadness and loss

of the ladder of compromise

and the dark cost

let a dead man choose the moments

no idea what's truly heard

this way comes the dark man

the story, the word

there have been other hard times

who can ever say which is harder

this I didn't see coming

overrich but rickety larder

In my own dark secret world

I'm bartering for hope

not sure what I'm offering

fearing all I'll get is enough rope

what

2.4553: 10/20/17 : The Circumstances

Wish I could understand

the highs, the lows

Where the one comes from

Where the other one goes

I see the circumstances

don't quite explain

is it all upstairs

phantom illusions in my brain

wish I could start over

jettison so much

but the things I must hold onto

aren't so negotiable as such

same old riddle

twist around to what now

pray for better circumstances

might even get around to now

what

2.4552 : 10/19/17 : Good Stories

Are they good stories?

boy I don't even know

Flickers of amusement

hoping for a winter snow

summer warm autumn

and a hell and gone summer's tale

don't know if I'm faking or making

as I try for a glimpse of the trail

what

2.4551 : 10/18/17 : Whip

all I hear is a

whip cracking

but I'm numb to it

like I bit the poison

apple

and. too dumb to spit

I feel the sleep

of a thousand years

hell I wish I could

just pull it up

aroud my ears

what

2.4550 : 10/17/17 : Slapdash

get slapdash

effortless

kill two questions

with one birdbrain guess

no fear of cutting

through the malaise

sure not celebrating

my slapdash ways

no question what's

getting my prime

crazy twinges

that's just spilling more time

what

2.4549 : 10/16/17 : No Difference

Might be no difference

how it gets cranked out

by day in the money trenches

nightside whatever this mess is about

If only I could simplify

get it all stuffed in one tent

but I swing useless between poles

with my axis badly bent

what

2.4548 : 10/15/17 : Razzmatazz 2

I got it bad

I got the razmatazz back

slung from having too much

to too little slack

they've got their

talons in so much of my days

where the hell do I find

energy to fight this haze?

what

2.4547 : 10/14/17 : Square

Still trying to

circle the square

reverse engineer

whatever there is there

if if falls aside

like so many things do

oh well

a little faster I am back to you

what

2.4546 : 10/13/17 : Keep Up

What's the dodge for the night

scrambling playing keep up

What's the chances I

could catch some sleep up

what's the chances then

my problems are bunk

another day

another bleeding chunk

and if I never assemble

this puzzle of meat

oh at least I guess

it keeps me off the street

and gives me something

to keep up barely

try to dodge don't want

that truth to hit me squarely

what

2.4545 : 10/12/17 : Something Wicked

Forgot about that

lyric gyre

cloud of metaphor

almost smothers the fire

the story man

how he bobs and tricks it

what comes with October

Something wicked

Never to be a boy

or a young man again

not getting any easier

to turn in after ten

Old sirens call deep

for once I'll ignore them

make my way into sleep

what

2.4544 : 10/11/17 : The Chunks

Wrong calling

all about

mixing up the chunks

nothing unfamiliar

these days

no room for

the punks

With hearts on sleeves

precious snowflake

chorus arcs

where the hell do we

put them all

erupting rhymes

and throwing sparks?

what

2.4543 : 10/10/17 : The Rat Race

How about this plan

no escape

through no fault of my own

I'm in a wearing scrape

ain't it always something

Mr. Mephistopheles 

Trying to nail the dismount

but I'm running with

the lot of these

day in day outs

weekend seekers

I used to ramble

with the artsy freakers

but I lost my

card chasing necessity

and it sure looks

like the rat race has the best of me

what

2.4542 : 10/09/17 : How He's Grown

This oddment

will surely be a phase

sure don't got wherewithal

to seek a new supply these days

I'll fill my table

from the harvest

of what the Gospel Plow

has sown

I'll rise above this

sure as Grandma

says my how he's grown

what

2.4541 : 10/08/17 : The Dark Part

Answer my own question

before I can ask it

moment of decision?

well past it

since I feel the

Dark part coming on

think I'd rather

toss in a quick flourish

and get me gone

what

2.4540 : 10/07/17 : No here

No here, here

that's what they say

but here we are

letting the hours get away

but I know the answer

isn't coming tonight

and my present strategy

is to give in without a fight

what

2.4539 : 10/06/17 : Streamed

Too tired to fake clever

or merely disaffected

too many things turned out

as ever I expected

and as for wanted

wished or dreamed

he laughed so hard

he farily screamed

and while the new

religion streamed

I'll tease a tale

of digging out

and now the

long retreat

becoming a rout

what

2.4538 : 10/05/17 : The Monolith

Always said I'd stand up

to the monolith

but it grinds finer

than I ever thought

and what became

and what is becoming

of everything I 

always said I sought

Doesn't take that much

after all

a couple extra hours of grind

everyday and I'm about to fall

apart at the seams

like a cheap suit

the metaphor's too fitting

and the monolith's

at every root

what

2.4537 : 10/04/17 : Simple

Before the waves

drag me out to the

midst of the sea

I'll stake my share

call it the one last

simple and free

If I can hang on

and I guess be me

what

2.4536 : 10/03/17 : The Joke

The joke was on me

I guess I'm the guy

not what I signed up for

but I won't ask why

I got in my gag

kind you only get once

When work is done the wise retires

but my kind punts

the kind of noise

that's pumping out these days

I'd like to think we'd

get above it some ways

I'd like to think

I'd just be let in on the joke

how I ended up here

with this heavy, heavy yoke

what

2.4535 : 10/02/17 : Silence

what

2.4534 : 10/01/17 : Wheel

So the crazy

was catching

we'd clogged up

the sky

the great unwashed

minority

had sent up

that guy

So most things

came off like a joke

kids laughed

at the forty-somethings

getting woke

but I didn't feel in

on the gag

until the heat

got real

And even then

I couldn't shake

this conviction

I would yet

beat the wheel

what