2.5095 : 4/15/19 : Cookie Oracle

Lamest observance

hope to be

past it soon

feeling unlikely

the paths out of tune

the cookie

oracle

says my

Magwitch is

in the wings

but I know

better better

next day

the same bell rigns

what

2.4806 : 6/30/18 : Angry Candy

No more angry candy

from your loving cup

dumbass think-o-sphere

does its old tear it up

back in that library

that lives now in my dreams

death and love and loss

and memory, all such themes

Did I ever write that letter?

can't really recall

started it I'm sure

sure it doesn't matter at all

what now? you guessed nothing

or so I seem to think

but I hope for everything

from crazy soup to kitchen sink

what

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

what

2.4569 : 11/5/17 : Haywire

like all the

other weather

gone haywire

the cloud of evil

in a mire

in the gyre

circling and

circling

might just stay

and how the hell

do you blow it

away

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

2.4518 : 9/15/17 : Nub

think I'm

worn to a nub

ah there's

the rub

I knew the cycle

and this

mission's a scrub

never a thing to prove

the bell's rung

and I have

to move

what

2.4262 : 1/2/17 : Petty Pace

All I can 

such a petty pace

and the big casino

is a race

I never got the

invitation

so it seems

except in spooling words

and half remembered dreams

rough starting

what's new?

fear too much

will be remembered

as the year

the bill came due

what

2.4257 : 12/28/16 : Prefer

Prefer not to

and since I'm

on my own nickel

I toss one off

to this wind

so fickle

what

2.4139 : 9/1/16 : Sonnet

Should really copy a sonnet

out of a book

no real structure her:

So don't look

just keep zigging

because I got no zag

nothing to see here

but trudge and lag

but I won't do this

and I won't do that

so pull another weekend

out of the hat

do what I can

to make it pay

not my line

but then I've come a long way

what

2.4118 : 8/11/16 : Buy a Little Time

Bigger lists

bigger columns of figures

oh how that footman

shuffles and sniggers

been trying to get

organized

since I was 19

still halfway there

if you know what I mean

If You reached Your

internal pocket

pulled out the lint

You could dust shower me

and no linger skint

indebted, indentured

I might buy

a little time

but You're elsewhere

and I'm still on Caesar's dime

what

2.3808 : 10/6/15 : Gem of Great Price

Gem of great price

my plenum horn

bursts this

gated paradise

diamond by hundredweights

grown in fathomless caves

fit skin for a

harsher world

and the beginning of

the glad hand

that saves

what

2.3784 : 9/12/15 : Winston

Winston Smith

what should I make of you now

the screen don't watch us back

but we're all watching anyhow

I had a dream, not of you

but your namesake planted a seed

holy black mother of invention

sacred daughter of need

I leave a mark to remember

like so many before

maybe be my room of terror

maybe be the last decent horror

leave the rest to the bomb squad

remembrance and the past

pray for simple outcomes

pray this marker

forever to last

what

2.3753 : 8/12/15 : In Post (Endless Axis 486/500)

Fix it in post

fax it back to most

through the time time

bubble tube

made him look

what a rube

This line stretches worse

who so wins the purse

The race did

it pass?

bend on

leaves of grass

what

2.3537 : 1/8/15 : Volleys (Endless Axis 270/500)

Get lost among the volleys

So many arrows

I dreamed God took a nap

So I had to count the sparrows

as they flew under the shadows

of ten thousand spinning shafts

and I spun my wheels in shallow surf

ignoring my first drafts

can we not call a truce

I get shouted out from all sides

and I should get this act together

Comes more marches, comes more ides

but I'll end up a pincushion

I go out without a shield

and I still can't seem to stomach

Choosing which weapon to wield

what

2.3252 : 3/29/14 : All Exits

What about this hell?

All exits

no destination

Say nothing matters

what on earth

is re-creation?

We shout our questions

into a deep hole

No echo:

And every exit with a stiff toll

what

2.3242 : 3/19/14 : There Are No Mistakes (Only Happy Accidents) (TWoB 10/11)

Hard to believe

what with terrible things

but then again if

you're to believe anything

not exactly planned

certainly not all good

not a bit of easy but

the thing we understood

is that there are no mistakes

only happy accidents

and so we paint the sky

and so we make the firmaments

so we make this majestic roof

fretted with golden fire

so make our magic non-mistakes

and so each day inspire

what

2.3205 : 2/10/14 : Clutter

Will I ever get a leg up

on the clutter

the muttering the

stutter of the

not quite start

am I set up to

accept those joyful terms

across the plains

have I got time

for chasing art

for all the time

spent in quiet

it's been a steady diet

of chattering

a little like a monkey

little cluttered

little junky

Still I dream of

someday shattering

what

2.3193 : 1/29/14 : The Royal Road

Do I hear the call

the royal road once more

the next level head

the door the door oh God the door

do I dare to dream a peach

do I dare to dream a better way

do I dare to dream

do I dare to let go and play

what

2.3184 : 1/20/14 : What Kind

The irony and my story

the 19 year old mind

thinking it has such developed

notions of what kind

It's not regret, second guessing

still self awareness is a mixed blessing

double it, it feels like

It could be critical hit

losing steps right and left

chancing the pendulum pit

these days doom feels imminent

feel dead old; need black tea and liniment

What kind will they say

When I'm the daisy pushing type

Will anyone even remember the hype?

what

2.3130 : 11/27/13 : Chorus

Tired of banging on about

the daily portion

while every Greek chorus

squawks the same exhortation

be here now

but where is here?

and just what the hell's so special

about now

each talk but out here

on the shattering edge

it takes more than chorus

fortune cookies to talk you down

from the ledge

and there's no action

in this great sacred present

anyway and hey at this point

I think I'm entitled to

a little

resentment

what