Monday, April 07, 2025

2.4722 : 4/7/18 : Minute

Thought I got ahead
for a minute
but that minute
has been and gone
so many like it
go past me
right now all
seeming very long
And just right now
just can't examine
the cycles and the cycles
feast or famine

what

Sunday, April 06, 2025

2.4721 : 4/6/18 : A Dollar

Dropped a dollar
on bad old ways
Sorry just seems
I'm having some
of those days
where can I turn
to let my
imagination fly
or am I still
imagining
I'm not that guy
hard to feel bad
oh some have it so much
harder
lie down and get up
try again
to work smarter
and honor that
butterfly kid
reminds me
I better look hard
at what I did

what

2.4720 : 4/5/18 : Chronic

Every year it
seems more
things turn chronic
I sigh and pine
for the
anodyne: tonic:
every year
what works
gets more complicated
and the march
of so-called progress
is severely
overrated

what

2.4719 : 4/4/18 : Kick

Stretched in five
directions
hell with it
worn out
the little card
to subscribe
got torn out
probably still
wouldn't have made it
if I'd begged
and cajoled
scrape together
some dignity
and get this
kick resoled

what

Thursday, April 03, 2025

2.4718 : 4/3/18 : Whole Wide World

This whole wide world
can kiss my ass
to hell with what may
come to pass
been rotten since
we took the scene
to hell with this
just venting spleen

what

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

2.4717 : 4/2/18 : The Jones

Can't tell if
it's the condition
or the jones
the new treatment
regime
or something
in the bones
really just hoping
it's clearing up
I really could do
with some cheering up

what

Tuesday, April 01, 2025

2.4716 : 4/1/18 : Skin

Ought to be
upbeat
but down
this street
again
and another
shot
taken on
the chin
oh is my
skin so thin

what

Monday, March 31, 2025

2.4715 : 3/31/18 : Interval

Always this interval
pause
for the faithful
of this peculiar
faith
for all my flaws
that I am one
another night
and the pause is done
and say again
still living
and strangely
grace still giving

what

Sunday, March 30, 2025

2.4714 : 3/30/18 : Train

Might as well
chock one more car
on this train
of thoughts
whatever those are
up in my brain
this pattern
well it's none too
inspiring
but it's small fry
to that over
which I'm perspiring

what

Saturday, March 29, 2025

2.4713 : 3/29/18 : Crash

kids crashing
I got a big x
of my own
and I got
no extra
time to loan
flip the
days since
chart back to zero
but I won't
fall back on old habits
mark that
well clear-o

what

Friday, March 28, 2025

2.4712 : 3/28/18 : Prior Restraint

Fake choice
through prior restraint
might actually 
get me there someday
but there I ain't
today
I guess the
proof is in the pudding
this one's
thick Yorkshire dough
But I still got
tremendous doubt
it's going to be enough though

what

Thursday, March 27, 2025

2.4711 : 3/27/18 : Cathedral Carnival

in the court
of the
cathedral
the carnival
I can't get over
the hump so
I stall

what

2.4710 : 3/26/18 : Rig

If you saw this rig
these sleep magicians had
to put me in
you'd gather why
this one is thin
I hope the
dreams can still get in

what

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

2.4709 : 3/25/18 : Crate

What's harder
to create?
Or the memory crate
always had
an inkling
but I'm running late
or maybe I'm not
even at half time
in a construct
of a past
Where a call's still a dime
and maybe still
worming to
some truth sublime

what

Monday, March 24, 2025

2.4708 : 3/24/18 : Just Quick

just quick
square the
circle
shut the trap
must we always
generate new crap
I can get off
on a technicality
all a bit meta
but enough
to spring me free

what

2.4707 : 3/23/18 : The Revelation

The revelation might be
quiet, and dull
how would I recognize
feel that deep pull
brain is juiced out
on the quick and easy light
I said their dollars
wouldn't turn me
but I scarce put up a fight
I'll get up early in
the morning
for a shot at their plow
the tyranny of a sure thing
if they could see me now
If the I of then
could see me now
I'd curse a blue streak
no sign of revelation
and I'm dragging
tired and weak

what

2.4706 : 3/22/18 : 7 Kinds

7 kinds of pain
stem to stern
top to bottom
and still worms turn
should be friends now
such long
acquaintance
should be preaching
doling them out penance
in a solid twelve
I'll be again
submerged
losing every lesson
of resolve
that briefly surged

what

2.4705 : 3/21/18 : Groove

Watch your hand
energy
effortlessly
overtake me
that's not my
struggle
and I mean my
lauds
sincerely
but wonder
what it's
my turn for
wonder what
I'm surely here for
tomorrow
make the
numbers move
pays the bills
but so
not my groove

what

Thursday, March 20, 2025

2.4704 : 3/20/18 : Victory State

What would
look like good
to me right now
whould would I call
a victory state
want to put a stop
to escape fantasy
revenge fantasy
the myth of
the clean slate
want to be good
even still
speak well
crack the code
cut the knot
break this
spell

what

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

2.4703 : 3/19/18 : Muddled

Can't decipher
muddled mind
the latest tincture
is treating me unkind
will another adjustment
tip the scale
call me in a month
when I get
Spit out by the whale

what

2.4702 : 3/18/18 : Aqua Regian

Turns out every astrologer
got it all wrong
the Aquarian Age
started out
with this song
Once awake
the original Aquarian
Such surprise
I am the Aqua Regian
the last White King
the age that was past
twelve lights in the sky
Lord Christ forever my mainmast
ask what it means
the age of those
that moe like water
I secede my throne
and point
to the first daughter

what

Monday, March 17, 2025

2.4701 : 3/17/18 : Fraud

Skip the sermon
again today
because I'm feeling
like a fraud
Not out marching
nor will I be
nothing there
to laud
in my heart I want an answer
right off the shelf
not claiming any new ground
not even saving myself

what

Sunday, March 16, 2025

2.4700 : 3/16/18 : My Visceral

I was working up
something really neat to say
about the purity
of the clean and peaceful way
but I run out of time
and get so literal
but it's not my fault
I'm so out of touch with my visceral
but I just keep it up
with a ton of grit
and it's been a long
strange trip not half done
and still I will not quit

what

2.4699 : 3/15/18 : Mud

What's floating up
like a bubble
of mud
foul the pipe
more useless crud
lance this luckless
night with a pin
seek in darkness
something new
within

what

Friday, March 14, 2025

2.4698 : 3/14/18 : Haunting

Try not to pine
it's unseemly
for a goneby time
it wasn't all that
I admit freely
it wasn't much
after all
and that lesson
is daunting
and I don't much care
for its afterwards
haunting
if I knew then
that's a tired refrain
And I don't know
the trick to
evict from my brain

what

Thursday, March 13, 2025

2.4697 : 3/13/18 : Baroque

Telling tales
getting baroque
the truth hurts
yet still such a joke
another quagmire
to back out of
It could be worse
but don't care
for the track out of
Someday the surface
will reflect the deep
the pearl of truth
ever the cost is steep
I know the way
just need to find my back
straighten it up
and get the hell on track

what

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

2.4696 : 3/12/18 : Lit

I might get bit tonight
I could get lit tonight
but I think that I'll just
roll it up and quit tonight
I won't get on stage
too far past my good age
so pick another origin
so finally turn the page
get me a bigger box
a handful of padlocks
I'll move past this trench
If I can just weather the stocks

what

2.4695 : 3/11/18 : Day of Rest

Day of rest
should stop
but on I go
rough starts
and enough
of the damn snow

what

2.4694 : 3/10/18 : Deep Slack

Even in deep slack
I rack a stack
of little battles
versus entropy
and still feel
rust dulling my steel
considering what others face
can only sigh in empathy
this world's
got a mean streak
wide as the Mississippi
through both poles
and the equator
and the foolish debt
we've all run up
will surely hit
and sure will leave a crater

what

Sunday, March 09, 2025

2.4693 : 3/09/18 : Layers

Delight and dark ire
lay side by side
like layers of flotsam
piled up by the tide
try to burnish one
banish the rest
seems every day
I retake, fail this test

what

Saturday, March 08, 2025

2.4692 : 3/08/18 : Relax Pretend

Organize this mess
protest
under duress
but it's the only
ray of light
the America
the plight
level up
the stacks
a list or two
relax
pretend I
can believe
that I can ask
and will receive

what

2.4691 : 3/07/18 : Snitch

I snitch
and ditch
the responsibility
man I want
no part of it
no this ain't me
deliver unto me
the diadem
I'm ready to rule
my own fate
and bring it hard to them
rise above these lowly
trolling scions of circumstance
finally
say hello to real me
and break free
from this stance

what

2.4690 : 3/06/18 : What I Fear

Try to imagine
talisman
magic feather
make me a new man
seen about
everything
seen next to
nothing true
see that it's
about the time
to make some time
to wrestle you
but in
the desert nights
you never appear
passed by
the turning point
long long ago
that's what I fear

what

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

2.4689 : 3/05/18 : Chump

The hymn of persistence
falters before the
heckling of my inner chump
the better part of a year
still out ahead
of cresting the imaginary hump
and I'm right back
to zero playing to the
solipsism choir
and that oily footman
chortles you'll sink lower
before you get there squire

what

2.4688 : 3/04/18 : PINS

So many pins
marks in
so many pages
likely lost and
unsorted
so little will
survive the ages
tonight I can't
be bothered
with the record permanent
preoccupied
with shifting feelings
in the firmament

what

Monday, March 03, 2025

2.4687 : 3/03/18 : Such Hate

Such hate
such wrath and froth
match to the gasoline
candle to the moth
many fighting
my poor instinct to dodge
heedless of where
that bullet may lodge
and then this strange
prescription
to not resist
So I'll never live up
to your name
as I clench my fist
imagining the sweetness
the solid impact
if the moment ever comes
who the hell know
how I'll really act

what

2.4686 : 3/02/18 : Dial

Can't believe it's
all just invention
artifacts of feedback
myth and convention
but when the
drift carries me off so easily
it's a little harder
So I say a bit queasily
lead me not
into the time of trial
till I get a little stronger
and turn back the dial

what

2.4685 : 3/01/18 : Grenade

Don't want to
be a poet
want to
lob a grenade
the better
to make sure
sons of bitches
get paid
oh my worse
impulses
Lord put them
to rest
For sure before
I know it
have to pass
another test

what

2.4684 : 2/28/18 : The Days

I'll find the game
I'm made for yet
I won't be gambling
on that bet
the game will tap
the power of plants
the music made
for planets' dance
the droning of
the insect choir
and if you should
stop to inquire
I'll tell you
I played ten thousand days
then you'll see
the method of the days

what

Thursday, February 27, 2025

2.4683 : 2/27/18 : Plumbing

Backed up bogged down
caught in the
trap bend
does inspiration all
come down to
plumbing in the end
left it too late
to think too hard
another night
another trap
but it's how I'm bound
wrong or right

what

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

2.4682 : 2/26/18 : Fleetly

For once
Could I
just go with the flow
this circumstances
think I've earned it
you know
leave tough love
for another week
go easy
Flow fleetly
Your mild
little freak
quiet the voice
and do
little lightly
just the thought
leaves me
feeling more sprightly

what

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

2.4681 : 2/25/18 : Real Crux

Simplify and focus
sounds so simple
putting it that way
may be simplistic
but here's low hanging fruir
the dead obvious
try to be reasonable
be realistic
never quite blows up
but someday it must crash
live everything
So that can't be the real crux
Praying for a quiet
month and a half
for once at the right moment
dance on point in the deep flux

what

2.4680 : 2/24/18 : Travails

According to plans
so right of the rails
and nobody wants to
retread these travails
and in the big scheme
I've got no right to Yap
I'd just as soon retreat
and heap sleep on that nap

what

Sunday, February 23, 2025

2.4679 : 2/23/18 : Blerk

Hives and weekend work
the essence of my
stance is blerk
and double that
to this so there
bail on whatever
goes nowhere

what

2.4678 : 2/22/18 : Why Fake

Fuck anticipation
and expectation
Once again I got nothing
why fake a sensation
I should skip it
demand inspiration
but I made my plan
and allowed no vacation
and if I can't
come up with wherefor or why
well maybe I was
never really that kind of guy
and if you can't
find a reason to look
well maybe I could never
write your kind of book

what

2.4677 : 2/21/18 : Wobbly Pins

The wobbly pins
on this thing
Ain't gonna last long
Think you
know what
I'm gonna say
but you're wrong
hope I'll save the
Gap back
from this song

what

Thursday, February 20, 2025

2.4676 : 2/20/18 : Reason for Being

Waves and water
great rolling clouds
all these words dissolving
get no cheering
got no crowds
just a sense of turmoil
a great roiling chaos
some how the capitalists
will harness
to preplex the players
and I'm bobbing along
the surface like a cork
obsessed with my
reason for being
won't be delivered by a stork
won't be wrapped
like a package
sublty marked in a book
for all that I can't give
up on it
and so I wriggle
on the hook

what

2.4675 : 2/19/18 : Little Nothing

I like that
little nothing
no excuses
no blushing
no explanation
no promise
no plan
upon another
not one stone shall stand

what

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

2.4674 : 2/18/18 : Itch

Is this itch
and irritation
some inner metaphor
or some new
physical breakdown
what the hell
is it all for
nothing that would kill me
no excuse for ceasing work
just another
shallow obstacle
addition to the murk
a sign the time has come
for this indulgent phase
to end
It looks okay on paper but
Oh I've been here
before, my friend

what

Monday, February 17, 2025

2.4673 : 2/17/18 : Bad Old World

Bad old world
and we feast on distractions
compromised attention
right back down
to this world of abstraction
God show me new vision
and pray it gets traction

what

Sunday, February 16, 2025

2.4672 : 2/16/18 : Lavender and Frost

City sky at dusk
gradient of lavender
and frost
ice rivulets
thawed and refrozen
ever changing
pattern never lost
So the world goes
behind the thoughts
tangled words
describing nothing real
I ought to
Spend more time there
or so I thought
or so I feel

what

Saturday, February 15, 2025

2.4671 : 2/15/18 : Disconnects

Every disconnect
is past distracting from
and old news I expect
and I just acting dumb
Who wants anything but
love and stories
this dim age can only
mine past glories
this dismal age can only
get better please tell me I'm right
I can't contemplate
the horror of further blight

what

time to improvise

And that's how songs of days volume 2.21, The Book of Coal wrapped up. And I'm running a day behind so we shall barrel straight ahead into volume 2.22: Tools for Knowledge

what

2.4670 : 2/14/18 : Hard Stop

Another hard stop
and me unprepared
time to improvise
but I just sat and stared
amazing how it goes
two to four to eight
and I've been
working out on my own self
and I don't feel so great
the see saw balances almost
I could still slip and slide off
Sunset's long gone
tonight
any way I've got no way
to ride off

what

Thursday, February 13, 2025

2.4669 : 2/13/18 : One, Two

One two one two
hah another startup
full of resolve
all fit to get my smart up
supress the cynical
uplift the optimist
I'll maybe last a day
feel me when I cop to this
wish I was better one two
wish I was true
one two wish I wish I
for once would have a clue
instead of just the stream
word salad of the hop
keep it up for a minute
one two
grateful always just to stop

what

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

2.4668 : 2/12/18 : Wheel

might actually
learn something
reinventing
the wheel
the thousand hours
in drips and
drabs
a bargain
it's a steal
I am turning
it right now
and hear the
ancient souls
So many long
unbroken
chains
so
let go of
that scroll

what

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

2.4667 : 2/11/18 : Skipped

Somehow
skipped the beat
memory is
incomplete
but there it is
and no denying
and being as how
time is flying
I'm flying too
tonight one more
skip
and beat it back
to you

what

Monday, February 10, 2025

2.4666 : 2/10/18 : Ascent Protocol

Must be somewhere
in the archives
unless the archives
are incomplete
ascent protocol
the only way over
shake off stupor
up on my feet
at the place
where all ground is level
the only place
I ever can start
prepare my craft
hone my level
anyone can see
kid's got heart
anyone can see I
made it all up
as I went along
anyone can hear
it was here all the time
in every single song

what

Sunday, February 09, 2025

2.4665 : 2/9/18 : Change in the Game

I sang of the change
and change came
but somehow
never all I sought
no change in the game
and am I just
asking the impossible
however it does not
seem so
however small
I deem my dreams
my loss and longing
a feeling I'll raise the
bar a little bit
and find belonging
and maybe an exit
What I call the game
simple living
in purpose
don't know
why else I came

what

Saturday, February 08, 2025

2.4664 : 2/8/18 : Forget

Remember and forget again
It should be easy
but it's not my friend
same day tide
sweeps away every castle
leaving me
and my ordinary
street hassle
leaving a trace
a scattered hand
random flea specks
in a mostly empty land
and me
something better
but I forget it
and it'll make me
sink with it
if I let it

what

2.4663 : 2/7/18 : Langour Long

As the day to day
infiltrators night
quite a temptation
to give up the fight
to langour long evenings
know not what
know not why
better start my resistance
and pass the thing by

what

Thursday, February 06, 2025

2.4662 : 2/6/18 : Coming Back

So was that an old friend
or a nemesis?
At least I'll have someone
to talk to about exegesis
and I suppose
tomorrow will come around
like a clock on sea-stilts
churning up dry ground
and it's going to be
such a big sound
when I finally
blow the stack
I don't know why else
I should always keep
coming back

what

Wednesday, February 05, 2025

2.4661 : 2/5/18 : Day of Rest

Should have built in
a day of rest
It might have been
the real test
but as it is
there's always slack
plus I'm miles away
from any track

what

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

2.4660 : 2/4/18 : Bring On Tomorrow

Bring on tomorrow
all the hassle
the day to day-o
need not engulf
me hey-o
there's a little
left in the kitty
Write story 'bout a boy
acting saintly in the city
give me an hour
I'll make it work
and as to my grand escape!
merely a perk

what

Monday, February 03, 2025

2.4659 : 2/3/18 : Hump Yard

Trains play rude jazz
in the Nordeast
squawks and squeals
from the hump yard
I shouldn't be doing
these wilding nights at my age
but something's
telling me to go hard
Rewatch the classic
a day late
knowing history will bear me out
I'll be surprised as you
to find out what's my thing
and oh the broken mystery
will tear the shroud

what

Sunday, February 02, 2025

2.4658 : 2/2/18 : Work Here

To tie up
a lazy day
there's
only left to say
my work here
is done
so hey - so long

what

Saturday, February 01, 2025

2.4657 : 2/1/18 : Dirtier

Should I shoulda gotten
dirtier
back when my body
could take it
Surely could have been
flirtier
when I had a hundred
chances to make it
but the past always
seems frangible
after it's set in amber
and the tension of
the moment is tangible
and lately 'bout
as much as I can bear

what

2.4656 : 1/31/18 : The Remnants

Before I give in
tip the scales
I'll scribe a tiny letter
to my many fails
the many incarnations
of this very book
the remnants plain to see
here if you take a look
from one perspective
we're doing well
but from a certain aspect
it's for sure
a living hell
and the mobile feast
keeps shifting past
and still I dream
my time will come at last

what

Thursday, January 30, 2025

2.4655 : 1/30/18 : A Blessing

Soothe out the mind
on things
seen a thousand times
old laughs
are best laughs
a blessing
despite my crimes
despite my lapses
and frequent
pauses
I'm still limping
after all
my causes

what

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

2.4654 : 1/29/18 : Tune

The tune in my head
Cycles in a round
Sometimes hum along
Sometimes don't make a sound
and it goes goes
Oh so slowly
and softly well suited
for one so weak so lowly

what

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

2.4653 : 1/28/18 : Mojo

To get the mojo back
fix the whole culture
rectify the great disunion
keep back you damn vulture
there's not a corpse here
there's life in us yet
Still a world of simple pleasure
Somehow we're bound to get
a lot of reading lately
probably won't cut it
have to find it in the darkness
won't come overnight but it
must be worth it
the mojo's very needful
So I'll be silent get to sleep
and try to be so heedful

what

Monday, January 27, 2025

2.4652 : 1/27/18 : Anywhere

So many places to
go to be
not especially concerned
that there I'll still be me
So many places
but for the straightjacket
the sunken cost
the business cycle
of course the debt racket
many never make it
much of anywhere
live the life you choose
so why should I care
but a seed planted early
still tries to sprout
but I wouldn't lay money
that I'll ever get out

what

Sunday, January 26, 2025

2.4651 : 1/26/18 : Treasure

Dozing through a dream
caves and treasure
maybe by this time next year
I'll have my true measure
host the big party
Start the long book
somehow oh somehow
by hook or by crook

what

Saturday, January 25, 2025

2.4650 : 1/25/18 : As Usual

I was working out my
payback vibes
but then I got angry
got a little bit
apoco-rocko
but it calmed me strangely
nobody owes me nothing
and the feeling's mutual
and it will all work out
some whole other way
as usual
I wanted to say
a little bit more
but I got no material
someday the king of
killer rhymes
is going to bring it, serial
but not this time around
in fact I feel like going to ground
to round out
the brighter theory
of this new imperial

what

2.4649 : 1/24/18 : Revenge

Seeking revenge, the kid
in the pixel space
Still got that urge myself
and feel it twist my face
I get paternal
shut down the virtual quest
get to your evening
get to your needed rest
late in the darkening
don't really get it right
still not looking for revenge
really still seeking light

what

Thursday, January 23, 2025

2.4648 : 1/23/18 : Compromise

Call stumbling a compromise
between walking and falling
call out my latest compromise
you'll surely peg it as stalling
though what I think I'm holding off
is surely a mystery
just hoping for some big surprise
or anything that's new to me
it won't much matter
tomorrow back in it up to my eyes
and I've got a feeling the way out of that
is nothing like a compromise

what

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

2.4647 : 1/22/18 : 15 Seconds

Gone in 15 seconds
chalk it up to
bad examples
deal back in
the quarter century
and start
running all these samples

what

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

2.4646 : 1/21/18 : Springtime of My Heart

This again feeling dumb
and getting dumber
wish I could hibernate
lose some weight
denned in a long dream of summer
Oh for a springtime
of my heart and soul
forebear to
replay the role
the true return
that the sage speaks of
in an old book
Cast me that dream
line sinker hook
ahead where
the brook may turn

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2.4645 : 1/20/18 : Steps

Am I slowing
losing steps
just want the quiet life
maybe a few more
laps and reps
a few more greens
better sleep
no kind of plan
but these steps
are going deep
into the drifted
snow of
day after tomorrow
So says the bit of
future vision
I borrow

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2.4644 : 1/19/18 : Scale It

And like that
the wall is there
guess you can
find it anywhere
scale it some other day
maybe somehow
something else beckons here
Come now

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2.4643 : 1/18/18 : F

Plan F
I guess I worked it out
Next time it gets in my head
to find something to be about
hard to get excited
There's been so many
find I'm dreaming
back when there weren't any
hardly want it
if I can't change my mind
from sinking down
into the grit and grind
and maybe the last bus
up and went
maybe all the
credit's spent

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Friday, January 17, 2025

2.4642 : 1/17/18 : Perhaps It's Best

I like that memory
Quiet and thoughtless
passing
seems I can't recall
a single other thing
perhaps it's best

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

2.4641 : 1/16/18 : Anxious Frame

What percent of this is an anxious frame
Still waiting for something
amazing to happen
How on earth after all these years
How I'd like to give
the fool a sound slapping
Still wrangling around in this restless mind
the arbitrary versus
the wait for the call
and the dark surmise see it plain in my eyes
that both sides are bankrupt
and there's really just nothing
at all

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2.4640 : 1/15/18 : Ahead

The comforing glamour
of getting ahead
shimmering mirage
my suspicion instead
I'd be far better off
thinking myself far behind
all but out of the race
says the cold-blooded mind
the home team made good
and the hometown is happy
might make it a month
color men getting sappy
It'll all get back to baseline
the great wheel will expunge
everyone brace their boots
for the next big plunge

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

2.4639 : 1/14/18 : Something Something


Something something something
small group
world changed
capital and war
disrupted
rearranged
red tape slashed through
with a ninja sword
free and just society
man we already bored
we're just a rotten
bunch of monkeys
only out to gratify
I'll watch the endgame
from my bunker
via drone dragonfly
pick up the pieces
all I got to do is wait
for this radioactive
trophy of the cake I lately ate

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Monday, January 13, 2025

2.4638 : 1/13/18 : Ice

Skidding and slipping
how's this ice so thin
When it's been so cold
and how hard I've been working
must be an illusion
a danger mirage
I'll come back like a hero
with a workout montage
super privileged
sheltered secure
practically signed
for a big world tour
to explain the vision
half science half art
all provide I can fake through
all this ice built up round my heart

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2.4637 : 1/12/18 : Drift Run

I'm just going to
do a drift run
on this one
slung shot out
fast a loaded gun
out in the dust
sparse asteroids
nobody but us
robots
and the real
bad paranoids
and me
floating free
scoop wide
play the yaw and lift
narrow the beam
and just drift

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Saturday, January 11, 2025

2.4636 : 1/11/18 : PIN

Could I for once pinpoint
the moment
Easy slide
into the
strange tides
what the moving hand
hovers over
and elides
a thousand sins of omission
leaving just the way
I'll find a garden of it
down here
and there I'll stay

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2.4635 : 1/10/18 : Instant Regret

Regrets
I've had a few
Some as instant
as how I fell for you
And I hope it all
adds up on
your side of the scales
my instant regrets
my epic fails
stacked against
my tiny triumphs
my most favorite tales

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Thursday, January 09, 2025

2.4634 : 1/9/18 : TAKE

One last
long slow
take
One time
I didn't
have to fake
any destination
but out
any
inner aspect
but doubt

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2.4633 : 1/8/18 : Floor It

Every night it's like kapow
and I'm getting real sick of it and how
not like I drift off better for it
every morning better floor it
race to what don't get me started
not for as they say the faint-hearted
a little piece of what I ponder
but that's a wrap so see you yonder

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2.4632 : 1/7/18 : Fruit

I see the fruit
that hangs so low
and cannot say just
why I love it so
Another day I
Swear to forswear
but oh the fruit is
hanging everywhere

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2.4631 : 1/6/18 : Ancient History

Jump back a decade
with a swipe of a pen
am I going to get back
to ancient history again
It's been a scorcher
I can barely grasp
shut the book
and set the clasp
What was I about
to launch upon
don't screw it up
we'll get back anon
put ancient history away
stow all of that gain aft agley

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Sunday, January 05, 2025

2.4630 : 1/5/18 : License

Never have the liver
for the hype race
but I won't hack another minute
with this po face
Want to imagine
big as worlds alive
you gave me the one
but I will dream this times five
I haven't got a plan
not even a list
but noboday has yet
come with the
cease and desist
I'll call it license
stand up and shout it
it's time to stick around
you want to hear about it

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Saturday, January 04, 2025

2.4629 : 1/4/18 : Response

Laugh meanly at my past self
Strategy: right
this call and response game
getting old tonight
but oh I used to talk
how I'd get the man down
If they could see me now
I'd be a joke in this town
Lord am I still pretending
about to get it right
this call and response game
getting old tonight
pine for something better
soon back out in the cold
and this harkening back
has gotten oh so old

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2.4628 : 1/3/18 : The Secret

Open up the secret
just a tiny bit
long experience says
in the long run it won't ship a whit
And what would it be good for?
if it took a little hold
no longer have a clue of that
if I should be so bold
But I flash my little signal
the secret in plain sight
and maybe one or two
will spot a glimmer
in this world of night

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Thursday, January 02, 2025

2.4627 : 1/2/18 : HUMBLE

Oh yes the braggadocio
less of that around
not exactly humble
maybe closer to the ground
feeling afflicted
So what's to do selah?
Seeking the royal road
So hie thee ho and he ya

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