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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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