2.4776 : 5/31/18 : Hand Crafted

Twist a few more up

handcrafted I pour up

a bitter witchbrew warlock

a man of peace I uncock

the piece I won't posess

I won't add to this mess

the peace past understanding

let me put up with underhanding

underlings all lying

still many many dying

putting up won't cut it

but I don't know how so shut it

what

2.4775 : 5/30/18 : Rage Funk

Better the toil for sure

than the rage funk

not the good kind no

but the dumb junk

how I take a little

time back

not quite redeemed

but I'll take slack

what

2.4774 : 5/29/18 : Hits

I'm rolling under punches

I must keep

the hits coming

keep singing

keep writing

keep tapping

keep drumming

When it always feels

like so so what

up to my ears

in nonsense

and scut

holding my tongue

my nose

and my horses

don't rush through it

as hits

cruise through the courses

what

2.4773 : 5/28/18 : As Usual

Feeling the effects

as usual

late nights

indulgence

nothing unusual

thinking this time

to pull up quicker

guess I still

loved sickness

why else get sicker

no research

no deep searching

no mulling and dwelling

toward what portal

I'm lurching

keep things simple

damn for once

stick it spike it

forward on all fronts

what

2.4772 : 5/27/18 : Riddle

As we close in on

the beginning of the middle

getting lazy

giving a shrug invoke the riddle

an inkling tickles

but it's not like there's a pulpit

for a gospel I might preach

and anyway

I'm just a culprit

in this seven billion lineup

no no's stand out in the crowd

however I might quietly

however I might loud

try to ring a bell

or flash a little light

better start something small

as well befits

my dim insight

what

2.4771 : 5/26/18 : On Base

Did I hit any home runs

seems like a long time

try to get on base

wait for the song chime

try to work the pause

try to change the script

keep my mind away

from where the story slipped

keep my mind away

from how the plays get ripped

always another day

and watch the page get flipped

what

2.4770 : 5/25/18 : Launch

Launch into

this passage

with perfect intent

all bad thoughts

shall get

well bent

keep balance

rest and work

still a few tricks

in this

middle age turk

be my grubby self

not pristine

but the coin I

pull out will be

perfectly clean

what

2.4769 : 5/24/18 : Consistency

Chasing conistency and scope

chasing the imp of a reserve

Don't know if I'm just stringing out the rope

If there's anything more I deserve

I try to balance out the sides

stay open challenge comfort

still some uneasiness abides

deep down I'm searching for some fort

Something to fortify, provision

something to arm and entrench

easier before when I though I had vision

and only thought to hurl in the odd wrench

what

2.4768 : 5/23/18 : Contraption

Soaped the hours away

on the modern

idiot contraption

this old war brain

is tired

been a long time

since it's seen real action

I know just why

they cloister

in the ivory towers

I lost my least

on decades since

and seldom

taste those powers

but there's no use

crying over

spilled opportunity

dust off the old

contraption

try to find a new community

what

2.4767 : 5/22/18 : On Point

Am I on point

i get so easily astray

The principle

of just a little

every day

seems to be losing

ground to entropy

another morning

dragged awake, dopey

if I can only

stick on a point

ready for striking

when time's the joint

what

2.4766 : 5/21/18 : There Was an Attempt

There was an attempt

to make measure

of just how far I strayed

from my true treasure

of how long an extension

I bought for the latest

series of contemplations

how I still could be the greatest

Someday sure I'll count the cost

write out a list of every item tossed

but today I'll write a zero

and start the count

five by five supplied

a fair amount

what

2.4765 : 5/20/18 : Ask

Don't ask

and I'm not telling

no tale or portent

the runes are spelling

no current interest

in the outcome

just want to finish

as the state is loathsome

what

2.4764 : 5/19/18 : 7

Seven years

and I can puzzle

over which

effort to rise

above

ended up in what ditch

and different's

the same

change means nil

I can puzzle

over which

dry swallowed bitter pill

what

2.4763 : 5/18/18 : Murder Mill

The murder mill

then the news machine

and nobody

will ever ever

get out clean

people stop talking about

that thing called change

it was only a rumor

and we've all turned strange

nobody wants to think

where we hit the twist

all feel we might be

culpable

and dream no

answer but

a clenched fist

what

2.4762 : 5/17/18 : Taking It

Mad as hell

and taking it daily

protesting frailty

under a spell

worth achievement

what will fulfill

the fear nothing will

hold off the bereavement

on pins and needles

one spun off the cuff

made of sterner stuff

and pitch forward heedless

what

2.4761 : 5/16/18 : Glutted

Glutted on the

quick fix of the wire

it'll all come to nothing

the opposite of inspire

hard to feel the chance

of a reckoning

reversal or correction

and nothing much is beckoning

what

2.4760 : 5/15/18 : Plank

Never know

if the next step

is walking the plank

Here I go

anyway

likely breaking the bank

well it's felt

pretty tapped

not much like getting there

all on edge

waiting to step

and only feeling air

what

2.4759 : 5/14/18 : Get Ahead

And now I think I see my chance

toe get ahead of the game

that I know is an illusion

but I chase it just the same

and if I do each thing just right

somehow pans out to the same

There's no ahead because there's

nothing but the game the game the game

While I cling to hope like a crazy hoarder

to think we used to laugh about the new world order

never imagined it could get so dumb and mean

to think I used to think I served the truth machine

that's enough that's where

I put my foot on the chalk mark

you better believe I will soliloquy

fall back before resolve so stark

In some sense I have stayed

one step ahead some way somehow

I'm hardly tearing up the scene

yet I've made it up to now

what

2.4758 : 5/13/18 : Sleeper

For a hot minute got fired up

to go deeper

Plumb those hidden depths

the real summer sleeper

but while I toiled, the depths

sank out of sight

Left with the obvious

Call that the usual plight

Briefly sought a rhythm

briefly thought a rhyme

but I only get to work

what I've got

when it's time

and so so seldom

find a real refrain

and the sleeper slumbers hidden

the conclusion is plain

but I won't disdain

say I failed the mark

however small however lodged

in the deepest crack I fan the flame

what

2.4757 : 5/12/18 : Bearing

Can I relate

to the crushed

ball bearing

can't you read what I wrote

on the cuff I'm wearing

shot from the sleeve

where I'm wearing my heart

and so crazed I almost

think I'm ready to start

what

2.4756 : 5/11/18 : Into

Not into it

not up for it

expect no one

to raise a cup for it

Say it's not my fault

but if not whose

and I'm giving up on it

I can't see what I'd lose

what

2.4755 : 5/10/18 : Go On About

Far from every

grinding impulse

heart brooding

and drums a grim pulse

and the last thing

I want to go on about

Better just screw down this mood

before it turns a rout

what

2.4754 : 5/9/18 : Den

First thing I'll get out

of this den of waste

can't think about the hours spent

can't afford the the slightest taste

What I go to

barely a setup

better than nothing

and I'll never got my rep up

anyway so not to worry

about missing every scene

and blowing up the fantasy of

Somehow getting out clean

imagine I'll be back well

jump off that bridge when it's here

did you hear the one about

the fool waiting for me to appear

what

2.4753 : 5/8/18 : Invasion

Going to double down

on this sheepish invasion

if the teacher appeared now

it would feel like an invasion

and the scholars are debating

this old dog's capacity

while I still haven't developed

much reputation for sagacity

what

2.4752 : 5/7/18 : Stitch

I can beat that

after the seven year itch

useless as an aristrocrat

and this retrospect's a stitch

what

2.4751 : 5/6/18 : One Stroke at a Time

Realistic progress

not a gripping yarn

but it's the game for us mostly

from the boardroom to the barn

from the field to the factory

the increment

the only downside gawping

at how all the time just went

I can't plead ignorance

not at my age

there's just the daylight

what I get down on the page

oh how I try to take it

all just one stroke at a time

piling little progress up

while I'm still in my prime

what

2.4750 : 5/5/18 : Slack Star

Damn it but I can't stop

working too hard

damn me I've got no slack

Times got too tough

for a working bard

now I'm hip deep in the muck

Try to figure if it's working

out oh try to justify

but I'm not on the side of angels

try to figure if I bought in

to the big dumb lie

and try to find different angles

I can't stop picking

at the seams

trying to tear through to where You are

I can't give up quite

on such foolish dreams

grind my way to being the Slack Star

what

2.4749 : 5/4/18 : Routines

The routines all cost

and the point gets lost

in the repetition

no object no mission

am I not entertained

kapow get brained

I think it's weird enough

and it's got way past tough

what

2.4748 : 5/3/18 : Deez Nuts

Alla deez nuts

aint' gonna stop burning

alla deez nuts

ain't gonna stop yearning

You want a solution

for the typical yutz

you gotta contend

with alla deez nuts

go try to fool them

nuts get wiley

get them in the feels

nuts just get smiley

preach like an angel

hear LOL butts

you gotta contend

with alla deez nuts

don't know if they're

the sickness or symptoms

mostly not villains

mostly not pimp bums

lotta cheap johns though

and I'm such a putz

still thinking I can talk

to alla deez nuts

what

2.4747 : 5/2/18 : Hand Over Hand

How to retrack

kick the inertia back

How to revise the tool

though I'll look a bit the fool

I tried hand over hand

the one foot two foot

kick off the dust

still shuffling in the soot

what's this routine about

just trying to get faster

because time is spilling

and I'm rarely my own master

what

2.4746 : 5/1/18 : Break

During this brief break

from the avoidance

Guess I'll discharge

this momentary annoyance

can't summon at the moment

the can do spirit

neither come to terms

with this garbage I inherit

that's no dichotomy

that's a stinking monopole

should maybe pick another hour

if something different is my goal

what