2.4837 : 7/31/18 : Month March

Soon the month march

better locate my starch

year countdown three two one

to where the back half

of my century begun

chuckle if you

did the math

if I made the whole next fifty

must for sure

have earned wrath

at this rate

guessing that's not my fate

and anyway

everyday it's just march

every year

some wrench will appear

to overarch

what

2.4836 : 7/30/18 : Resistor

Resistance peaking

could I yet break through

chased by a nightmare

where I lost

and failed you

what does that nemesis

represent

a ghost of the past

threat of

the present

to what end

this role as the resistor

am I boiling down

a signal

can I insist your

grand arrangement

promises some guiding

will my plodding walk

ever again feel

like gliding?

what

2.4835 : 7/29/18 : Routine

Spin up this

routine

brake the putdowns

what's left then

don't ask me clowns

divided attention

and looking to bail

since I gave up

on the holy grail

what

2.4834 : 7/28/18 : World Saver

That old World Saver

impulse

itching again

so darn silly

from this

hapless little terrapin

fires rage

swords keep rattling

whats your big idea again?

middle aged fatling

dumb as the lottery

as a mysterious rich patron

get caught in some

dumb antic

watch the network

get its hate on

does the world need

more or less saving

than ever in history?

probably not the question

needs answering

in this story

what

2.4833 : 7/27/18 : 3 Yr. Grind

I thought to plot

the three year grind

different this time

some shift in my mind

poke my head up

when I'm pushing fifty

ain't time's relentless

nature just nifty

one plan for the body

one plan for the call

one plan on earthly power

who else wants to have it all?

one plan for nature's sphere

dear to my heart

and the big one for the great axis

spirit song glory art

what

2.4832 : 7/26/18 : Free Day

Get a jump on

lowering the expectations

on the free day

thinking of the tales

old Bobby spun

check the mirror

no way

objects in my mind

are smaller

than they appear

Maybe for once

you could manifest

finally interfere

what

2.4831 : 7/25/18 : The Fall

Give up vision

give up quest

give up augery

surely you jest

give up self-improvement

replace with virtue

try for the high king

though the fall can hurt you

take up the pale words

savourless, mild

step forth in darkness

as one led by a child

what would it look like

how would I sound

Would I still always feel

like I was losing ground

what

2.4830 : 7/24/18 : Good Enough

Listening to other

people's stuff

thinking how I am

not good enough

that's sure note a

winning strategy

oh I'm up to bat

again oh gee

not trying very hard

So I can't be blamed

plus my old problem

got inflamed

good enough it

checks my only box

now another round

me versus clocks

what

2.4829 : 7/23/18 : Not Deep

Turn down

the anger

get more

sleep

eat better

move more

it's not deep

Would all things

fall into place

Would you see

there on my face

oh far off friend

that joy at last

seen in your dream

crazy years past

not smart not deep

but from the heart

would that be how

the next would start

what

2.4828 : 7/22/18 : Second Wind

Is there any real chance

at a second wind

getting tired of rolling

and the halfway mark though pinned

on the chart upon the wall

marks no real turning point

maybe uphill twice as steep

all while I still don't get the point

any chance at some renewal

of the sense at least it moves

feeling now like circling tracks

deeply rutted in blank grooves

easy enough to keep on

might be harder to desist

So far still not pulling that thread

but it's on the secret list

what

2.4827 : 7/21/18 : Grace

Oh I should

navigate this business

with more grace

and aplomb

shoulda found

a destiny

they'da called me

the bomb

I should get an early

turn in

get a fresh start

nothing's slowing down

and everything

falls apart

what

2.4826 : 7/20/18 : Go Fish

Ten minutes out

to starting to get

ridiculous

but I think

it'll all be fine

another might say

fabulous

go fish

maybe catch

nobody will mind

basically

starting from scratch

what

2.4825 : 7/19/18 : Won't

I don't want to

So I won't

You might care

but I'm guessing you don't

what

2.4824 : 7/18/18 : 3 Brief (3)

3 brief

3 briefest

time sure

the thiefest

one aim

go down quicker

figure soon how

to not get sicker

what

2.4823 : 7/17/18 : 3 Brief (2)

3 brief

descents

it matters still

briefly take on

the hatter's quill

by virtue of

one mad aproach

till all the darts

of life encroach

what

2.4822 : 7/16/18 : 3 Brief (1)

Time to quash hyperbole

This no descent to hell you see

Just common grief

the sadness up

And one more lap

to drink it up

Three brief repairs

Down in the loop

Last time recoup

what

2.4821 : 7/15/18 : Beat Goes On

I too can fairly say

the beat goes on

Just now don't want the day

to go too long

can't say I'm too jazzed

for the coming act

and if I get razzed

I deserve it in fact

what

2.4820 : 7/14/18 : Front

Watch them on the heights

a thousand floors

if it's two

me at eleven

I can explain the rest

do I have to

spell it out for you?

I can't get up

above the chop

The doldrum ocean's

set up shop

now let me take a break

look at them codgers

man can still front

a little heavy in the face

if I may be so blunt

Surely too late to start

can't scrape the loss up

some plan be please come forward

hey Eminence wassup?

what

2.4819 : 7/13/18 : Moth

Thing has no

direction

it's a restless

moth

illusion of

the restart

new, cut

from whole cloth

nothing to

pinpoint

no reference

sample

another week

to come

the same

evidence

is ample

what

2.4818 : 7/12/18 : Uncertainty

I studied the principle

pushing 30 years back

now a hundred million miles

away from having the knack

the math to form the inkling

the glimpse of the reveal

and better not to think

of what I let my stumbling

random path steal

there's commonplace uncertainty

awash at every turn

at least I've lost the taste

of being clever with the savage burn

that I saw it as a glimpse

of reality's stark resolution

fuzzing out just where

You might have thought

there's be that fine solution

what

2.4817 : 7/11/18 : Tether

Are the ends

growing together

will the next step

yank the tether

We no longer

see the other

me just father

you just mother

if I asked

oh really would you

Said I couldn't

oh but could you

knew it wouldn't

be tonight

and the when

is out of sight

what

2.4816 : 7/10/18 : Regimen

Finally get enough sleep

get on a gratitude regimen

frequent active breaks

could I be the specimen

so many tricks

that I never apply

meditate, eat great

will I ever be that guy

It just can't go on

the gnashing and grumbling

Where's the effect tho

of this truth to which I'm tumbling

the regimen sits

in its dusty box

and you'd be a fool

to invest in my stocks

what

2.4815 : 7/9/18 : Settle

Settle in

like I'm born to scrub

in a stolen moment

pathetic little dub

worrying about

my unruly tongue

pray one more outburst

goes unsung

pray the morningmen

carry off my leavings

dwindling sins

of various resleevings

pray the next hallway

ends in a door

oh the sorry little prayers

I settle for

what

2.4814 : 7/8/18 : Out of My Mind

can't much get the one thing

out of my mind

no hidden meanings here

just whining on the grind

forgot for a week

but it didn't forget me

and the sink and the swell

will aid and abet me

in being washed over

and soon well submerged

no big change in the offing

no transforming verged

I'm not out of my mind

oh I'm lucid and clear

once more into the running

try to be of good cheer

what

2.4813 : 7/7/18 : Usual Dog

So the usual dog

wants to bark and protest

So I put what I've got

saying just give it a rest

it's nice getting back

back back to normal

so though I didn't have time

to engrave nothing formal

welcome back problems

welcome back job

anyway you're mine

though at times rough as a cob

 

2.4812 : 7/6/18 : Paint a Picture

If I could paint a picture

because beauty is everywhere

from the highest falls

to the mist in the air

And the things I let drag me down

drift and shift like the fog

If I only could hold steady

pursue fidelity like analog

I'll lose the thread again

distracted by society static

and I'll drag out of that again

as long as I have a few bats left in my attic

Thinking about the ones past

the ones with so much left

I guess the losing is the warp

the beauty is the weft

what

2.4811 : 7/5/18 : Lament

Something in the water

something in the fare

or just how the trouble

finds you everywhere

the habits you know

just can't continue

no sign of the kingdom

of God within you

and no justification

for another lament

in a week I'll be wondering

how the time got spent

what

2.4810 : 7/4/18 : Freedom

Good God don't

ger me started

on freedom the word

generally seems departed

can't stop there of course

but I earned my pause

half baked but then

not expecting applause

what

2.4809 : 7/3/18 : Sheer Forgetting

Neat trick if you can pull it off

Sheer forgetting

lose that corner of my mind

I'm always subletting

wasting time and

being so very smart

I blow it off

chalk it all up to

the restart

what

2.4808 : 7/2/18 : Rough Night

A rough night

but then things went okay

hope to hook little

bit of perspective

to stay

and not demand much

of the nightly report

everyone's entitled

to a little summer sport

what

2.4807 : 7/1/18 : Witching

This spell is old

its virtue all but gone

and what I'm muttering

is neither poem nor song

And what I've been brewing's

a check I dare not cash

and so so sick

of the same old hash

I can check out

It'll come back tomorrow

and even I'm embarassed

to call the thing sorrow

but it's a weight to be sure

and whether time will tell

is a crystal ball clouded

impervious to any spell

what