Showing posts with label literary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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

Monday, June 30, 2025

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

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Thursday, January 09, 2025

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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Tuesday, November 05, 2024

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

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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

Monday, September 16, 2024

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

Thursday, January 04, 2024

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

Thursday, December 28, 2023

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

Friday, September 01, 2023

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

Friday, August 11, 2023

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

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Thursday, October 06, 2022

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

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

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

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Monday, August 15, 2022

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

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Saturday, January 08, 2022

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

Monday, March 29, 2021

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

Friday, March 19, 2021

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

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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

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

Friday, January 29, 2021

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

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

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?

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Friday, November 27, 2020

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

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