2.3353 : 7/8/14 : Uncertain (Endless Axis 86/500 - Nest 2: 6/11)

Uncertain

divided

Lord said he

provided

but I was

uncertain

Who knows what

the curtain

Waited all

before us

could old scratch

ignore us

I doubt it

but strange sea

I'm still here

this change

see?

what

2.3352 : 7/7/14 : Every Good Thing (Endless Axis 85/500 - Nest 2: 5/11)

Every good thing

is found in the dividing

music in silence

this darkness

I am lighting

I turned my face

from argument and bile

and I'm growing

getting greater all the while

darkness persists

oh there's a great light coming

I'll storm very heaven

with this tune I'm humming

it will divide

the old rust from new shine

I'll cut it clean and quick

right here I drew the line

what

2.3351 : 7/6/14 : Long Division (Endless Axis 84/500 - Nest 2: 4/11)

Long division

try to parcel out

the time remaining

ignoring unknowns

try to count

the moonrises

the raining

let me find

a better way

and this time let it

be here

to stay

what

2.3350 : 7/5/14 : Hallmark (Endless Axis 83/500 - Nest 2: 3/11)

In the division

between dark and light

the stroke of something

passing in the night

Left not a thing

there to investigate

embrace the dark and

Set this as a hallmark date

what

2.3349 : 7/4/14 : The Verge (Endless Axis 82/500 - Nest 2:2/11)

Divided and falling

it looked like to me

can you find a bright side there

hmm wait and let me see

we could be on the verge

of learning we must depend

on one another every day

and right on through the end

divided and angry

divided and fall or reproach

maybe the teacher's on her way

incognito, flying coach

come heal our division

reveal common ground

today I'll believe in it

don't let it get around

what

2.3348 : 7/3/14 : The Web of Division Street (Endless Axis 81/500 - Nest 2: 1/11)

Once I thought if it

I found it everywhere

I know they all connect up

in the dark somewhere

And I stumbled in

it tangled up my feet

and I knew I was caught up

in the web of Division Street

we sought divisions

always splitting up

I poured the measure

drained it from the cup

to brace myself for the one I was to meet

they called him the cold lord

and the master of Division Street

but me I'm looking up

I like this clean line

I like the crossing

and I'm getting mine

I sent a flare up

and my help is coming

and on Division Street

every taut string is humming

what

2.3347 : 7/2/14 : The Battlefield (Endless Axis 80/500)

Life is a battle

death is a journey

the way that I see it

I'm no rules attorney

Everyone got angry

shook a fist

when I said he won his battle

escaped into the mist

fearing death

is a superstition

getting off the battlefield's

a holy mission

it does not require death

but you must accept it

that was my secret

until now I kept it

what

2.3346 : 7/1/14 : Completion (Endless Axis 79/500)

So came healing

in every limb and viscera

the work that

started at the center

brought to completion

over years to come

the portal

where we stood to enter

So came transition

the change of the guard

a trick or two

to learn along the road

learn to ring back

a joyful refrain

learn to sing out

without a secret code

what

2.3345 : 6/30/14 : Form Letter (Endless Axis 78/500)

Everything is moving

all at once

and here I was so

worried

Feel like a dunce

thought things were

getting worse

they were getting better

I got the

clean release

in a form letter

It's not so simple as

what will be will be

I gave a few

things up

getting to parity

I'll give a lot more

getting to paradise

It's a process it's

a trip

I wouldn't call it a price

what

2.3344 : 6/29/14 : Technical (Endless Axis 77/500)

I won't get technical

days just begun

I had to jump in early

cause I felt so spun

Feeling every hurt and worry

Fading way back

I see a rising tide of ink

and every drop pitch black

what

2.3343 : 6/28/14 : Better (Endless Axis 76/500)

Knew it would get better

didn't expect it so soon

I dug a tunnel

straight on up to the moon

got asked how in the world

You dig a tunnel through the sky

well you have to build a scaffold

about three miles high

because I had to make an extra big

leap of faith tonight

When it hit me like a brick

everything was so all right

I can wrap it up just like that

I can make the here and now

everything I wanted better

without a bit of fuss nor row

what

2.3342 : 6/27/14 : Its Name (Endless Axis 75/500)

One direction

like time like gravity

always on always present

in every sentient entity

turn towards its object

all anyone can do

I guess its name

Can you

what

2.3341 : 6/26/14 : Everybody Told Me (Endless Axis 74/500)

Everybody told me

there would be days like this

isn't it great

to have friends

who can predict

You could worry

Yourself sick

trying to think

around the bends

Nobody needs to

tell me I'm lucky

I wake up smiling

every day

another day

another stack

So firmly in

the black

in everything that counts

in every way

what

2.3340 : 6/25/14 : Wow (Endless Axis 73/500)

Guess I gotta go

Wow 'em again

holy K kapow 'em

again

I don't even really

need the thing

just demonstrating

I've still got a

hand in

I like a little song

a little dance

a little flirt

sniff of romance

oh I'm going to

leave hearts broken

a shame but hey

my greatness

has spoken

what

2.3339 : 6/24/14 : Two Thousand Hands (Endless Axis 72/500)

The embarrassment

of riches

too many

options

heaven help me

when

I've got to

pick one

wish I could split

into

a thousand

bright parts

I need two thousand

hands to

carry out

all my arts

what

2.3338 : 6/23/14 : Infinity (Endless Axis 71/500)

I've got so much to be thankful for

wait a minute

while I count to infinity

wait half a minute

I'm a count to infinity

don't act coy babe

I know that

you are so into me

I've got so much

to look forward to

wait a minute

while I count to infinity

wait a second

while I count to infinity

already got a job

I think they call it ministry

I've got so much

great stuff going on

wait a second

while I count to infinity

have a second

I just counted to infinity

don't rub your eyes

you just glimpsed

the big sound djinn in me

what

2.3337 : 6/22/14 : Riches (Endless Axis 70/500)

Despite the cares

that kept me up

and woke me up

Despite now everyone's

ignoring my fine

pitches

what I've got going for me

which is nice

is how no one

can divest me of my riches

my riches sleep near

while I work

silently

my riches shine

at me whenever

I look within

my riches

pile so high

in fact they're

inexhaustible

and they grow

each day that

I begin, again

what

2.3336 : 6/21/14 : Guano (Endless Axis 69/500)

Defeat defy the sophistry

the solipsist

One day to find it gone

long lost in mists

Prepare thyself I'll give you two more lines

one day to come across lost

hidden in guano and vines

what will replace

oh know don't even ask

What will arise

let go tomorrow's task

the day with its cares sufficient

I wouldn't speculate

hell it's not like I'm omniscient

but I got faith so I say

get ready for greatness

not bothered a bit by the past

not bothered a bit by lateness

and if you would know the truth

it's all history I don't prognosticate

look back and you'll see it all

in stone like beyond debate

what

2.3335 : 6/20/14 : Reclaim the True Quill (Endless Axis 68/500)

The endless axis

upon which we all sing out

defy the dismal discourse

of squawks and bleating

forgetting gonna bes

leave behind the wannabes

the enemy's right here

and I am defeating

meaning as I say and

What I say is I will

as I stand up

and reclaim the true quill

there must be renewal

there must be restoration

this must be the new day

because I feel so free

vice vanished

a thousand terrors banished

in one clean sweep

I must confess it was me

ascending that slope

come to cure not kill

I hold the universal prescription

in the form of the true quill

what

2.3334 : 6/19/14 : Third (Endless Axis 67/500)

What else

start chewing through the next third

block on block

my block is word

What I bite off

I can chew it

I'm the King of

see it

do it

close my eyes

beheld my hand

by tears blurred

see what's coming

and it's all good

The next third

what

2.3333 : 6/18/14 : Antumbra (Endless Axis 66/500)

Dark in the shadow

who can deny

plenty to fear

plenty reason to cry

I'm a dabbler

a dilettante and stumbler

and I can't see

the ring of light around

this antumbra

though it's there

of that I'm assured

though by hardship

by trouble inured

for a year

half a decade

22 long years

still looking for

the bright edge

upstanding

all ears

through trouble

through sickness

desperation and tears

still looking for

the bright edge

upstanding

all ears

what

2.3332 : 6/17/14 : Phase (Endless Axis 65/500)

Which phase

what a wicked gaze

those dark eyes

long gone

leaving me

a paragon

solid

liquid

gaseous

plasma

cycled through it

all in the

ephemeral phantasma

nary a clue

had I of what was

happening

ignorance was bliss

sure

and I was a

happy king

what

2.3331 : 6/16/14 : Secondary (Endless Axis 64/500)

Secondary crash

failure to take out the trash

well all right

who said all right

who said all will be well

the silver spoon

the shell

Well it is till it isn't

and faintly imprisoned

I wrote one line

than another

and what next then

brother

what

2.3330 : 6/15/14 : The Biggest Lie (Endless Axis 63/500)

The biggest lie

every soul has got one

committed in darkness

or under bright sun

few can place it

few can set a mark

identify their ire

say hey ho hark

I know mine

at the halfway mark

how do I know it

say

ho

hey

hark

Drive an iron stake

and walk away clean

Like Doctah Faustas

cursed

claimed

immortal

and yet clean

what

2.3329 : 6/14/14 : Transition (Endless Axis 62/500)

The old vice the same price

there's a solution but it's not nice

the clean fission the manual transmission

I don't know what I got but I dare call it vision

why not get tight why not light a light

I call myself anything anything but bright

the quick mission you'd ask but you're just fishing

I gave a lot it come own to transition

what

2.3328 : 6/13/14 : Warm (Endless Axis 61/500 - Nest 5/5)

It'll be a warm day

in a cold place

every eye will see

there's nothing to replace

this thing I bring

unparalleled

and if it hides in vasty depths

oh very well

but I get the warm

yeah I get the nest

I'll get every eye to see

we still could choose the best

I'll get on that horse

though I got thrown so much

and so soon you're going to see

that I've still got that touch

what

2.3327 : 6/12/14 : Ride (Endless Axis 60/500 - Nest 4/5)

There's something to like

in a ride

away from eyes

away from inside

let the engine

eat up a few miles

take a half an hour

from these mundane styles

maybe get some

thinking done

wondering what on earth

has now begun

surely it must be

something great

here's to a fine ride

to mark the next state

what

2.3326 : 6/11/14 : Anticipate (Endless Axis 59/500 - Nest 3/5)

I might confess I

leaned too much

upon anticipation

forthwith with the

simple and

quotidian revelation

I need not anticipate

So much because

it's all right now

Again I see

the only way that's free

my hand my sweating brow

and every eye is

turned inside

anticipating the next move

I dropped a needle there

but the beat that appeared

sprang from a wholly other groove

what

2.3325 : 6/10/14 : News (Endless Axis 58/500 - Nest 2/5)

No news

must mean a good word

coming

eyes and wings

all around me

eyes unblinking

wings all thrumming

don't need to

tell me fear not

fear is farthest

from my views

I'm glad for respite

relative silence

long as it lasts

no news

what

2.3324 : 6/9/14 : Nest of Eyes (Endless Axis 57/500- Nest 1/5)

I'm so pleased

to have received

a second chance

here in the nest of eyes

I don't complain

the gain is plain

to be known and

be held to tell no lies

I do my best

don't rock the nest

but I confess

in secret I may dream

held in my heart

the start the art

this jolly act

poised balanced on a beam

what

the secret of the hooky pop

Failing to Forget marked the end of Songs of Days volume 2.16, Wisdom, but we've only scratched the surface of the 500 song series Endless Axis: 500 Days of Light (brought to you by the Parliament of O.W.L.s), an attempt to maintain a spirit of optimism across a protracted creative output, and the longest sequence of the series, although I'm currently engaged in an attempt to write a series of 1001, as long as the original song of the day project.  If I succeed I assume that will become the longest series of the second project, and unlikely to be surpassed.

And so on to volume 2.17, The Right Books, which opens with this quote from "Hormiga Canyon" by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling:

In a hyper inflating cosmos made of humming strings it was crass to expect stability.

what

2.3323 : 6/8/14 : Failing to Forget (Endless Axis 56/500)

Failing to forget

my assertion

to find another

person

in the mirror

come morning

the long habit

suborning

break the law

of ingrained instinct

alternative

still indistinct

but given that I'm

on the fringes

never sure what

swings on those hinges

I'm feeling sanguine

It'll clear up

You want to come

along:

better gear up

what

2.3322 : 6/7/14 : Reminder (Endless Axis 55/500)

Loving this reminder of

that place that I don't want to go

If I wasn't me I'd look at me

and say I told you so

but I gladly give the last word

to the ones who wish to be there

a small price to slip away

get right back to my fireside chair

unlike all the other times

this time I'm never going back

I'll free up so much time to work

you'll pale at how my outputs stack

my learnings and my masteries

I'll be plain stuffed with gold and face

I'd call a shack a palace though

to never more be in that place

what

2.3321 : 6/6/14 : Heat (Endless Axis 54/500)

The heat the beat

the showing up

and putting up

the presentation

and the bootstrapping

a footing up

if the moment ever came

it'll come again

and if you're

getting up a posse

you can't count me in

what

2.3320 : 6/5/14 : Exercise (Endless Axis 53/500)

The exercise

of possibility

just to try things on for size

just for a look to see

it gets a little rough at times

feel the burn and and strain

but it's good to exercise

it's good to train

work out my capacity

to see things the right way

no shortage of upsides

Whatever I might say

So I will walk out upright

with my chin high

merely for the exercise

the effortless serenity

what

2.3319 : 6/4/14 : See Light (Endless Axis 52/500)

Everybody's saying everything is

bound to go downhill

but I'm betting I can roll up come with me

please say you will

Everybody's saying these days they just

can't see the bright side

but I'm up I'm kicking the bed over

because I can't hide

That I can see the light

it's breaking out

spilling around every bend

I can see light

You got to go outside

and open your eyes friend

Oh I can see light

and it feels all right

after oh so long

did you forget anything

could be warm and strong

Everybody told me it was all

just in my mind

Everybody said they didn't say it

just to be unkind

They sure try so hard to distract you

it's just everywhere

inside outside on my good side

If you can't help stare

now that you can see the light

what

2.3318 : 6/3/14 : 25 Revisited (Endless Axis 51/500)

Three years

three weeks

five days fail

to surrender

go back home

is that the tale

3 days reprieve

then end it all

on the second day

broke out of free fall

25 revisited*

the lesson is clear

made it through

that time around

nothing different here

harder the problem

maybe

richer the reward

there will be no retreat

I'm all about

toward

what

(1.578)*

2.3317 : 6/2/14 : Patience (Endless Axis 50/500)

Patience

maybe that's the lesson

I can be okay with the lesson

what there is to

be bright about

you know I'm going to

keep you cats guessing

And you know

I'm feeling my patience

growing roots

getting anchored

do it without

despair or rancor

the lesson

confession

what

2.3316 : 6/1/14 : Not Repeat (Endless Axis 49/500)

The smile on my face is for

the things that I need not repeat

things that rankle things that bore

and all that knocked me off my feet

the sunshine in my heart

in knowing there's no going back

what was construed in art

What rust can't stain nor blackhats hack

now that I have arrived

think on what never to repeat again

the hill up which I strived

risking dissolution, mortal sin

What I will not repeat

by nature you'll just have to guess

the saying ties up neat

though true here on the ground it's quite a mess

what

2.3315 : 5/31/14 : Spot (Endless Axis 48/500)

I'm taking pleasure

in this rough spot

it's sure intriguing

sure hits the plot

my tendency to

prospect ill fate

a little frisson

oh spot you're great

suspect you're nothing

just the odd kink

Just dues for getting old

better than the alternative I think

You're a vacation

somewhere far and hot

imagined in the

pinpoint light of the spot

what

2.3314 : 5/30/14 : Continuation (Endless Axis 47/500)

The sunniest note of all

continuation

never all, always some

so the briefest mediation

If none now aught

where's room for fear?

I'm riding that trouble horse

right out of here

what

2.3313 : 5/29/14 : Stacking (Endless Axis 46/500)

Wrestling mater

stacking stones

even when the strain

stains pain in the deep bone

another day

boy I can't wait

It's shaping up

to a bold estate

What I put past me

What I look for ahead

the ironclad conclusion

of how I make this bed

what I'm stacking up

pages galore

it's a hell of a lot

and there's so much more

what

2.3312 : 5/28/14 : Fading (Endless Axis 45/500)

Here's to the fading

at a long day's end

never a clue

what's around any bend

I don't need to know

not there and never will be

living for the moment

and the fading

traces fill me

what

2.3311 : 5/27/14 : Extent (Endless Axis 44/500)

So I start to see

the paradise of extent

a little something

I knew as reinforcement

by the light

of this day by day

at last I see

the glimmer of the right way

two days down

form a sickness of escape

it was a waste

but at least I got

one thing on tape

I said soon very soon

but in fact it was all now

and with the thought

the shadow left my brow

what

2.3310 : 5/26/14 : When You Stop (Endless Axis 43/500)

I think it's one of those

feels good

when you stop things

I think it's about

another

vice I'm going to drop things

And I'm not looking back

no I'm not going to

turn to salt

It took a weird turn

just one night

but it's only

partly my fault

what

2.3309 : 5/25/14 : Super Tunnel (Endless Axis 42/500)

I'm digging a tunnel

a way through

nothing in this world

can keep me away from you

it's going to be a super tunnel

going to be a super ride

And I'll see you see you soon

on the other side

what

2.3308 : 5/24/14 : Burning Drive (Endless Axis 41/500)

Not content

with mere intent

it's great

to have a burning drive

for when the worm

within has turned

I know that I'm alive

I may at times

not appreciate

I was up early

and stayed up late

but it's great

my burning drives

intact

impervious

new stock, unhacked

what

2.3307 : 5/23/14 : Here (Endless Axis 40/500)

It isn't all good

but it's all here

and that's a starting point

to put down fear

and my stark hand

will seem a story tall

when I repudiate the fall

I'll start here

sure like always

I didn't leave a thing

in lost and whispering hallways

I am a radiant lad

under these whiskers greying

and think I nailed

down something here

if you know what I'm saying

what

2.3306 : 5/22/14 : Preparation (Endless Axis 39/500)

Preparation is a good time

a little extra

everything will now turn out fine

it's not an attitude

just knowing to

say when

moment's not quite here

but I'll tell you then

what

2.3305 : 5/21/14 : Enough (Endless Axis 38/500)

Learning what's enough

though tough

is overdue

growing up

the obstacles blind fate

keeps throwing up

have piled into an incline

I can climb

and I won't stop

this time

what

2.3304 : 5/20/14 : Case (Endless Axis 37/500)

My first case lost

mystery

part and parcel

subsumed in history

how it wrapped

recall too well if anything

What I didn't know I clung to

or held in my hand to bring

second case

I've stood at that stone

they called it ivory

but it was all bone

this next case though

I'll set it so sweet

honest yet cunning

astute and complete

I'll even talk my

own self around

give it a week or so

we'll see what I've found

what

2.3303 : 5/19/14 : Right (Endless Axis 36/500)

Sure I'll get it right

Work to live

and find a balance

like it's inevitable

like an electron

finds its valence

the world can get it right

fight back the heat

the inequality

get past this

-ism nursery

execute a new modality

You know we got one thing right

You and me

our little one

another day gone right

all well and good

under the sun

what

2.3302 : 5/18/14 : Smile (Endless Axis 35/500)

The bigger smile

mile after mile

I sure stand out

among the rank and file

I cast my lot

among the rest

but every turn and throw

Showed who loved who best

You'll know me by

my lack of guile

my honest winning ways

my brilliant smile

Starting from zero

One two three

these days I'm never

really sad you see

what

2.3301 : 5/17/14 : Shines In (Endless Axis 34/500)

There is a bright

side

always

the darkness is

not absolute

the light shines in

again, begin

this time wiser

more astute

Whatever comes

Whatever comes

the light cannot

be taken from

its children yes

its rightful heirs

whoever thus

ascend its stairs

what

2.3300 : 5/16/14 : Spring (Endless Axis 33/500)

Enough that it's spring

and warming

the future's uncertain

but the moment's charming

and the future always

was a bit of a pig

but in the moment man

it's gonna get big

what

2.3299 : 5/15/14 : Manual (Endless Axis 32/500)

I've got goals for miles

and they're all stuffed with smiles

no more tortured schemes

it's all sweet sweet dreams

I've got a goal to bust

through all constraints

I've got a goal

to hustle all the saints

I've got a goal

to keep my head on straight

because I do believe

it's not too late

to set more things to rights

than there are now

when you read my manual

your head will go kapow

All set out tight

in nicely ordered goals

fit for all prisoners

fit for all souls

what

2.3298 : 5/14/14 : Relaxed (Endless Axis 31/500)

It's gonna get

so relaxed

gonna get real floppy

face gonna go slack

it'll last a week or so

all natural no pill

I said I said I said

I said I would

and I will

what

2.3297 : 5/13/14 : No Magic (Endless Axis 30/500)

No magic

thank god

though to say it baldly thus

I may seem a clod

No special treatment

all doomed the same

a level field of sorts

up to us to make a fair game

I suffer avarice

I cannot tell a lie

I covet loaded dice

though I hate to be that guy

yet even I can see

this version the less tragic

and from now on I chart myself

burdened with no magic

what

2.3296 : 5/12/14 : Round 2 (Endless Axis 29/500)

I couldn't be more thrilled

to go another round

I love a challenge

hear that bell sound

Round 2

talk about optimistic

you came back for more

Well here's your statistic

I am undefeated

my rank undisputed

Your odds are just too low

to be computed

So by all means come on

commence round 2

I'm in a hurry so

I'll make short work of you

what

2.3295 : 5/11/14 : Return:Stoked (Endless Axis 28/500)

The cup refills itself

I'm stamping out presents

like a good elf

and I return: stoked

you better step back

because I've got this beast yoked

Fire up

with a head of steam

I'm in the tender

I'm a stoke this thing

fire up

see the smelt ore gleam

would you believe

they thought they broke this thing

the cup spills out alight

this is the clean power

and it's all right

and I return: stoked

reveal the mission

that was once cloaked

fire up

with a head of steam

I'm in the tender

I'm a stoke this thing

fire up

see the smelt ore gleam

would you believe

they thought they broke this thing

what

2.3294 : 5/10/14 : Resolution (Endless Axis 27/500)

The resolution

the superabundant

So right here

So now

not one hair redundant

with no special effort

without

further ado

plenty and to spare

enough for you too

the realization

it's all one

full stop

we all stop waiting

for the needle

to drop

and get on making

our own new sound

and that first note

will astound

what

2.3293 : 5/9/14 : Axis (Endless Axis 26/500)

How can I complain

What should I fear

as long as I'm on the axis

there's always a here, here

can I get a hear, hear?

thank you sir

thank you madam

why you're all so dear

nobody makes it out

So if that's okay

the axis of full meaning

pierces every day

and if I never saw it

but for a minute or six

well it's enough I showed up

and its the Axis that picks

what

2.3292 : 5/8/14 : Early (Endless Axis 25/500)

Go down early

what else

in this book

the dull and

mundane sells

nothing wrong

with an early

night

might even make

a thing or two

go right

what

2.3291 : 5/7/14 : Negative Space (Endless Axis 24/500)

Yay upbeat prose

Yay outline I'm drawing

negative space around

this plank I'm sawing

not quite a snapshot

of the inner state

but that's kind of the point

and it's sincerely great

yay for the shattering

of superstition

yay for refinement

of this moral mission

I put this to you

if the pith's unspoken

am I lying?

Is the contract broken?

what

2.3290 : 5/6/14 : Chased the Ghost (Endless Axis 23/500)

5 years you chased the ghost

did you ever believe

did you ever really ask

did you wait to receive

You hold five in your hand

change unimaginable

And ghosts must pass uncaught

You must slash down the flash and babble

but it's all right to say

everything's going to be okay

and if you chased a ghost

strange to say you did more than most

what

2.3289 : 5/5/14 : Cinco (Endless Axis 22/500)

Hey you hey Cinco

hey what you thinko

don't know the history

me too a wistful tea

but I can party

true like a smarty

true clean and moral

but I won't bore y'all

But hey let's cinco

enjoy your drinko

worth celebrating

I'm recreating

the plan the big one

number cinco son

what

2.3288 : 5/4/14 : Whatever (Endless Axis 21/500)

Whatever comes

to my hand

neither bold

nor bland

that is

enlightenment

perfectly ordinary

sometimes

sheer ecstasy

sometimes just

bored and scary

I've got to work it

One way or whatever

I'll never

solve it all

oh no not ever

it started long ago

it won't end tomorrow

and that's about all the

transcendence

I can borrow

what

2.3287 : 5/3/14 : Plan (Endless Axis 20/500)

I have a plan

it's going into effect

a long shot any high

roller would respect

I have a dream

far off still

but coming clear

come Monday

we'll see some

changes round here

what

2.3286 : 5/2/14 : Cliff (Endless Axis 19/500)

So wonderful to see this cliff

this canyon this precipice

I needed a project a challenge

you know the drill it goes like this:

you just need to climb

friend

You'll come to a sublime

end

and one day at the

right end

of a monstrous legal spliff

I'll reminisce

that it all started out

at the cliff

what

2.3285 : 5/1/14 : Anthracite (Endless Axis 18/500)

The choicest black

still dirty as hell

I tell you I'm a mix it

I'm a ring a bell

And pull the whole thing

down to a pool of light

behold the real

this is the anthracite

There are some stones

you just can't make come clean

Thankfully

we port our glee

onto a virtual machine

Where we write the rule

to suit the fugue most golden

we only pay to play

and are to none beholden

what

2.3284 : 4/30/14 : With the Heat (Endless Axis 17/500)

You can pack a whole day

into just three minutes

live your life

hold sway

so glad I could

begin it

Attitude turned out

to be

precisely nothing:

an artifact

and I stuffed

three minutes taut

with the heat I packed

what

2.3283 : 4/29/14 : Tremble (Endless Axis 16/500)

This joint's so sweet

it makes me tremble

tremble

try to act cool

try to dissemble

but I can't

I saw a rock

become a fountain

who's counting

my tremblings stopped

my fire is mounting

so listen to this rant

I'm going to get sweet:

Sweeter

make you tremble

to the beat

repeater

Not ever going to stop

Until you're all

rocked out

then I'll tremble

reassemble

and spout

what

2.3282 : 4/28/14 : Thrill (Endless Axis 15/500)

The thrill's still strong

and here's the moment

of the spark

Sure it's brief

but what a flash

and the thrill:

hey what an arc

what

2.3281 : 4/27/14 : Good News (Endless Axis 14/500)

A spell the driest

Hell just made the pie

the highest

and I'm really

looking forward to the good news

I'll act surprised

but it's just sweet how I surmised

that I was ready to start drawing down

Because I have paid all my dues

what

2.3280 : 4/26/14 : The Light (Endless Axis 13/500)

I'm so glad the light's

so very far away

I've got years and years

of it getting closer every day

I'm so glad I took

that awful awful cup

And let you tip it up

I know it's going to turn up

though I lost all faith

that's a gracious paradox

ho hey, yeah thus sayeth

You've heard enough I'm sure

And I say free from fear and spite

leave me to my pining

staring patient at the distant light

what

2.3279 : 4/25/14 : Cheese (Endless Axis 12/500)

Maybe it only 

seems it's going rotten

maybe it's

turning into cheese

maybe it needed to

sit a long time on the shelf

maybe unwrapped

it will be fit to please

I wrote a tall order

a very tall tall order

an almighty

delivery of cheese

hey don't you know

fulfillment is my business

this aroma's

going to bring you

to your knees

what

2.3278 : 4/24/14 : Exact Directions (Endless Axis 11/500)

Discovery is nice okay

the revealed country

the new day

but for those velvet

insurrections

It's nice we've got

exact directions

for the origin of word

the disposition of light

for the precise manner

which I'm a rock you all night

it felt so fine to be sure

So powerful to know

I was backed by such an army

all just waiting for my go

what

2.3277 : 4/23/14 : The Report (Endless Axis 10/500)

We're all going to

get together

so said the report

I'm working on my

attitude

So I bite off

a blithe retort

Show me where

to sign up

show me where

to stand

as long as there's

still a promise

as long as there's

still a land

what

2.3276 : 4/22/14 : True Brilliance (Endless Axis 9/500)

I began

I was so amped

I didn't notice it

you know

this is the prime

this is the bespoke shit

Behold I am

the thing that God

kept for himself

You motherfuckers

screwed it so

He took me off the shelf

I'm here to fix your bust up wagon

here to clean your clock

If you never saw

true brilliance

you're in for a shock

the real joke is that

I'll pass you all unseen

but when the dust

is settled oh

you'll sure see

where I've been

what

2.3275 : 4/21/14 : Sun (Endless Axis 8/500)

Plenty of sun

and none

of promised storms

and twined through all

the patterns, forms

promises of better days

not knowing how

not ends or ways

but in the sun

I thought of one

up the raised sash

and treasure from trash

and spinning every

straw man to gold

and the end of cold

what

2.3274 : 4/20/14 : No Fooling (Endless Axis 7/500)

No fooling

life's been kind

and so much I deem dark

was only ever

in my mind

if the road seems steep

the destination uncertain

well we're still rolling now

and still

no sign of final

curtain

what

2.3273 : 4/19/14 : Imminent (Endless Axis 6/500)

Feeling amazing about

imminent collapse

this whipping party

we'll all sing to the straps

I love an edge

I love a narrow strip

defeat on either side

and the losing of grip

the rhythm bangs

like a two-stroke engine

and the back of my

skull unhinging

chalk this one up

to dancing on lines

cross my fingers as I

tiptoe amongst the mines

what

2.3272 : 4/18/14 : Get Into Now (Endless Axis 5/500)

All this projection

all this futurist suggestion

I can stop dodging the how

I can get into now

nowhere anywhere

but here

nothing at all to fear

but fear

it's all turning out

beautiful

all children bright

and dutiful

all wives of stainless

purity

all comfort, love

security

and this pen

looks like a prow

and I'm right here

into now

what

2.3271 : 4/17/14 : Of Seven (Endless Axis 4/500)

One of seven

of one of two

in a minute I will know

in a minute I will know

exactly what to do

sure at last

confident

surging past

all ghosts of the past

nothing mystic

just firm intent

by main force

the column finally unbent

save the world

or get rich trying

hit it so right

I'll leave you crying

what

2.3270 : 4/16/14 : Than Done (Endless Axis 3/500)

So much easier

said than done

that's all right

because saying is such fun

no harm in saying

it's at least a start

and so I say

come what may

I'll play a part

what

2.3269 : 4/15/14 : Eclipse (1) (Endless Axis 2/500)

Said things would clear and they did

are you starting to believe yet kid

not magical not serendipity

to have missed it would have been a pity

Saw the eclipse one night and late

the mists that occlude heaven's gate

I said I know it all will clear

and so it went and so now we're here

saw the shadow start and creep

worthwhile to keep me from my sleep

saw it redly full occlude

and then I was one happy frood

And cast off all the previous scripts

now happiness will all eclipse

what

2.3268 : 4/14/14 : Unreconstructed (Endless Axis 1/500)

What's that sound you hear?

Rubber hitting road

I am the teacher I appear

Boom! Your head explode

before this unreconstructed

warrior of light

I slapped a meter on

I've just 500 endless nights

I'm ready now

Oh I'll make each one count

haypenny, sou

now there is no amount

too small to matter

too small to help

this life's rich platter

this stark owl's fierce whelp

Endless Axis: 500 Days of Light

brought to you by the Parliament of O.W.L.s

what

2.3267 : 4/13/14 : Miss America

Am I going to Miss America

Honey was it ever there

truly I'm not going nowhere

But maybe it's going to get

pulled right out from underneath me

Dear miss the bliss you bequeath me

What's next it's a cloudy mirror

Future might even surprise me

America you might arise free

what

2.3266 : 4/12/14 : What It Is

thinking my way through

what it is

the parable

the mountaintop

the hers and his

never bought a ticket

but this ride I'm on it

and despite it all

I still do really

care doggone it

what

2.3265 : 4/11/14 : Magical Thinking

Magical thinking

doesn't help a bit

the need's extreme

this age is plain unfit

I am become catastrophe

blind and random

whoever's got the keys

should be forced to unhand them

oh but by whom

and into whose hand?

No glory be here

and no promised land

I promised I'd look up

that I would dream brighter

it's a hard row though

I am yet still a fighter

what

2.3264 : 4/10/14 : Long

Art is long

and I waited half my life to start

maybe it's only two fifths

that might be the scary part

the primary role model

was an abandoning fuck

and there's no much point to a row

when you've only got one duck

oh at least at least

it's not saying this again

better remember small favors

every time I need to count to ten

and another and another

is running long

you might think I'd go obvious

to you I say blong!

what

2.3263 : 4/9/14 : Heavy

Metal raining down

rocks and logs too

forsake history

before it flogs you

bounded by atmosphere

and gravity

What else heavy

can we throw in the cavity?

glass chunks raining down

Steel as well

we've every capability

to make this world a living hell

Why do we go heavy

so easily?

Why don't we have a better plan

than what will be will be

what

2.3262 : 4/8/14 : Gimmick

Every gimmick

every slogan falls down

there's no deus ex

no way out of town

So I guess we just see

and roll with whatever

pray for a pivot

and a place to ply my lever

what

2.3261 : 4/7/14 : Change Everything

The only way

to change everything

is how you look at it

and is that anything

many mystics

gurus and sages

kneeled at many hours

turned many pages

What I hold in my hand

I'll open, release

you can't change a lot of things

but every day you can seek peace

what

2.3260 : 4/6/14 : While the Tea Steeps

While the tea steeps

before the mission creeps any more

I'm going to place a bet

on you and me

If it gets a little old

If I may be so bold

I'll wager another

one day we'll get out

and go free

I'll dodge that hammer

if I end up in the slammer

just a figure of speech

it won't come to that

What I've got a fingertip on

like a mask I'm going to slip on

that which I can both do and teach

is tucked right under my hat

what

2.3259 : 4/5/14 : Quieter

Get quieter

get meeker

get humbler

be only a seeker

always loving

always kind

rise above this

struggling mind

always comes back

snapping striving

too many years of

just surviving

If I could be that kind

would I see clear

ask me next week

I'll still be here

what

2.3258 : 4/4/14 : Crowned

Under the circumstances

I should be crowned

I should be knighted

and well renowned

this is no coddle

for the creative heart

and yet I persist

and each day new start

Oh I know no guarantee

Oh I know its own reward

is it my comeuppance for some future life

hanging hoisted on my own petard

give me faith to believe

just for a single week

give me to hold on one more year

draw the veil and grant me just a peek

and I will go

wherever you might say

swear to me just swear to me

I'll get there by this May

what

2.3257 : 4/3/14 : Of Songs

Of songs I'll say

no more beyond

I only wished to shine

and forge a bond

we're all alone

spinning in the dark

and as noted this

is no walk in the park

And lately all I hear

is the market floor gongs

it sounds like hell

it sounds like a killing floor

of songs

what

2.3256 : 4/2/14 : Threats

Stressing threats

stressing losing bets

Dwelling in every

hasn't happened yet

Dwelling on disaster

the dark age

I'll say no more of threat

I'll turn a page

what

2.3255 : 4/1/14 : Transfer

Noon to midnight

the transfer fails

I better turn it in early

despite lost trails

the first station

is lost in the mist

and the past

is a velvet fist

I am beseeching

no idea to whom

with no hope to avoid

the decline

nor the tomb

but if it's not now

I better make this next transfer stick

and I'm not yet clear

so you better stand back when I kick

what