2.4030 : 5/15/16 : Null Rev

Try to jack the null rev

spin up on the void

back on that bootstrap trip

could never long avoid

tried the skim, the start-up

got jacked and smacked my heart up

tried the grift, the neo-pious

missed rhe next thing that got by us

left looking like

trying to make hand shadows in the dark, gee -

Sorry thought I had ahold

on something

dumb me, more malarky

tried the pocket friend, the fresh jam

Nobody bought a ticket for that,

alakazam

and I got

left looking like

trying to make hand shadows in the dark, gee -

sorry thought I had ahol

on something

dumb me, more malarky

what

2.4029 : 5/14/16 : The Dark

Nothing lined up

I surrender

Who should look to me

I'm no defender

Yearning towards

descent, the dark

A timeless moment

to investigate the mark

what

2.4028 : 5/13/16 : Sap

Hand upon hand

trying to beat the brass

out of the cynic's band

go giving me a ghost of a chance

baby baby do you still like to dance

Shoulders in the press

head in the trap

and even after I

decided I'd be nobody's sap

I stood in the stalls

like anyone at all

and hustled for all the

same scrap

Escape the big circle

might well be another

Work mill

but I'd be

Somewhere else

no debate

and far past the bounds

of the steady state

what

2.4027 : 5/12/16 : Loss

Defy loss

Rise

absorb

any cost

never

never

will you

break this

go on

go on

make this

what

2.4026 : 5/11/16 : Swaying

Listening to better:

bitter, distress

such a bore,

my more

is more and more

less

I can never figure out

what to repeat

I can't imagine

why I still struggle to my feet

Swaying sullen and dumb

don't get too near

or else you're gonna get some

Just need a drum machine

electric dulcimer

and talent and time

and a bulb that's dimmer

Just need a time machine

a suitcase of cash

two track two reel

a little room to thrash

what

2.4025 : 5/10/16 : Casting

How's it all gone

even my pens

are gone

and on the threshold

of the last

vice

telling in clichés

and casting

Dice

what

2.4024 : 5/09/16 : Medley

Every great hit

circles once or twice

medley of my mind

and not very nice

No root no vine

and withering

and in my heart

a dark hope slithering

what

2.4023 : 5/8/16 : FLAT

I get all m

inspiration from TV

'cause my real experiences

just don't inspire me

dreams and aspirations

that's some old hat

blew it too long

and that's that

Don't mind this

just weary and flat

bad timing on this jones

and wearing

the wrong hat

what

2.4022 : 5/7/16 : Cryptic

pulled by the cryptic

nobody is fooled

my problem's obvious

gotta get this retooled

Gotta get this skinned

chopped, rebored

chase that cryptic truth

I so long ignored

what

2.4021 : 5/6/16 : Fill

Vessel empty

full of use

fill of hot blood

pray, recuse

once old ways

now fruit, seed

make this vessel

fill this need

what

2.4020 : 5/5/16 : 4 Pins

4 Pins 4 corners

tacked to the wall

the map the territory

the trajectory the fall

what

2.4019 : 5/4/16 : All Powers

Primal simplicity

please come and

live with me

get me

undiversified

all powers

unified

climb off the

savior kick

wait for

some new move to click

dance me

right off this stage

show me the

great blank page

what

2.4018 : 5/3/16 : What Could

Rise early

unironic and

unhappy with it

fed up

calculated

to the seventh digit

oh sure the

world needs more of me

wrasslin'

the what

could never be

what

2.4017 : 5/2/16 : TROLL

Troll down to

the dog end

oops I missed

the mess friend

best promise

clam up

hope you got

the dam up

what

2.4016 : 5/1/16 : Ordnance

Shut the door

on the mad cash

So what so what now?

Got no

secret stash

got no moonlight gig

annuity

wish to hell

You were done

getting through to me

give me the angle

the ordnance

the target and

shell weight

it's all drones anyhow

might as well pay freight

sense must start

before you pull the cord

And seldom smiles

on those

bound to the sword

what

2.4015 : 4/30/16 : Endurance

If I could make

an endurance

event

how long would it

take to catch up

how happy

I'd be to reach

to stretch up

and try to

snatch

that wisp

the essence of days

how truly would

I voice my

thanks and praise

what

2.4014 : 4/29/16 : Bare

Better with barely

a thought to spare

no future

no strategy

Palette bare

only if I could

dwell in this

neutral land

my exit hence

a paradox

you'll never understand

what

2.4013 : 4/28/16 : Jag

hardly strength

to express

jag jag jag

won't do nothing

but sneer

and slag

what

2.4012 : 4/27/16 : Flight

All things are made of flight

all variance is density

hail the lenses focusing time

remote in space hid in immensity

So is transmuted each desire

and I no longer know my own mind

poison seethes just underneath

my vampire teeth just pierced the rind

I envy the ones I put in place

I covet their clarity and call

a million cash and a thousand week vacation

got no answer to what if I won it all

beams cross at neither art nor science

heaped and fettered in the danse mundane

hey newest saint blow a kiss back

this acolyte is bowing in this rain

what

2.4011 : 4/26/16 : Battlefield

Rejoin the battlefield

half willing

dragged along

another 180 degrees

wasted

trolling this

digital song tra bong

painted up

knucklebones

go all the way bush

Waiting for a mission

getting softer

now the lethal push

what

2.4010 : 4/25/16 : Match

Trying to find the match

to strike

light this pile up

dope like an

electric bike

and hitch a smile up

it's easy riding

a friendly lie

and I'll meet a

holy match up

in every cast die

what

2.4009 : 4/24/16 : Zappy

Sometimes get zappy

I wrap it up all snappy

You know it ain't no mystery

Yeah first fan I service is me

what

2.4008 : 4/23/16 : Biggest Sword

Shake my stupid puny pointless fist

at King Entropy

Writing his hymn book for him

My own one true enemy

Reapers reap and scrapers scrape

Counters like me count up

bad seeds in my landscape

Today's fortune no guts no gusto

Only teacher waiting for me

Is Professor Bust-o

Back-paddle from that lesson

with all my strength

hoist up the mud-mixer's lot

sure, or any such length

Pursued no interest: so no talents

to lose for the Lord

Did you expect more from us

in the shadow of the biggest sword

what

2.4007 : 4/22/16 : At the Dust

Random disappointment

hardly think you could surprise

little things I write larger

as I narrow my eyes

at the dust in the way the winds blow

but at least I needn't put on a show

what

2.4006 : 4/21/16 : Spin

What will spin

from the box tonight

seen unseemly

sometimes set right

Still feel

I'm looking for

the wrong tree

next forest over

what's it mean

to me?

Spun thousands

more to come

this time leave it

little grey,

little glum

what

2.4005 : 4/20/16 : Fakes

Fakes and substitutes

messing up my

resolutes

the never agains

these foolishnesses

not quite sins

but just not to think

sooner or later

the feelings sink

and denial fails

and I'll be back on

those resolution

rails

what

2.4004 : 4/19/16 : Apprentice

Past too old

to be an apprentice

So never a master

oh well

never meant this

drab strip

had a slot

for me anyway

pull the

ripstop

catch wind

fly away

no teacher

no school

no vocation

that's cool

what

2.4003 : 4/18/16 : Slop

Is this just

a strut

a prop

holding up

a barrel of

slop

no one

wanted anyway?

and if you

knew it

would you say?

what

2.4002 : 4/17/16 : Zonbi

Still I can't get

enough

of these

shambling passed on

the meaning of

the Zonbi

first to last one

oh hell quick

come up with a

metaphor

the fucken enemy

is us

and we're at the

damn door

what

2.4001 : 4/16/16 : Hatch

Counting photons

each one a pin

the holes and baffles

that let the light in

probability

to fifteen decimal places

What do you suppose

he saw written

on their faces

could there truly be

one valid way?

Could anything else be?

how could I say?

dump pins in their millions

start from scratch

not a lot else to do

down this hatch

what

2.4000 : 4/15/16 : The Screw

Maybe then the screw

back a minute

Guess I've got to

be a bear and

grin it

up to all my

fellow desk pilots

all while I'm

cooking holy math

and dreaming riots

been long under the screw

My head feels too big

hardly half a ton of pressure

what the heck's

this gig?

Sure that soon enough

you'll dig it in the next round

and I'll scrap as always

till i get drilled in the ground

what

2.3999 : 4/14/16 : Tiny

I heard you dropped

a two line verse

they couldn't shut up

ready to call the hearse

me I got tiny

before it was cool

and I could even

take that cat to school

what

2.3998 : 4/13/16 : Crevice

What got lodged

in the crevice

nothing valuable

no reason to get nervous

never getting back

well that's canonical

just like the crevice

and its parables all ironical

what

2.3997 : 4/12/16 : Cookies

Eat every cookie

then down the wine

No stomach for it

So pickle me in brine

Who'll get the last laugh

wait and see

too bad for you

you won't know me

what

2.3996 : 4/11/16 : Pay Heed

Pay heed

no crux no creed

I'll have my answer

or by your name

I'll grab the pillars

of this game

if there's no victory

but the coat of Hercules

better than to

hand the keys to

such as these

what

2.3995 : 4/10/16 : Caesar Squad

Another gutting

from the Caesar Squad

how long will you forget me

Oh great God

Don't even tell me

of the refugee

you screwed him too

like it does shit for me

what

2.3994 : 4/9/16 : Charge & Retreat

Charge and retreat to

charge, recharge

no defeat

the Lesser,

Inimical

at large

this will

seem retreat

border on fade

but you'll see

the plan unfold

when I emerge

from the shade

what

2.3993 : 4/8/16 : God's Will

Leave it to the prophets

to interpret God's will

did it say it before?

Hear, I say it still

Oh I'm about to let loose

this cursed arm

no more reticence

no matter who I harm

hence is the contrary

the Devil's flop

I choose three cards

surprised you with a hard stop

when i hurled that

gouting arm into

the Pit

hell I was even glad

I finally found a use or it

what

2.3992 : 4/7/16 : This Pace

This pace frenetic

no time for the aesthetic

philosophical poetic

what's the point

I only ever

signed up for one rodeo

fell off that horse

double decades back

don't you know

20 years in the dust

trying to decide

small surprise

this seems like

such a random ride

what

2.3991 : 4/6/16 : These Visions

Some of his last words

fading in a

wash of snow

and me thinking

it's even

less I know

You're cutting them down

by the scythe sweep

lately

and these visions

you're laying on me

shake me greatly

what

2.3990 : 4/5/16 : Transference

Fearing the infiltrate

the hack job

when did I turn

into such a wack job

probably all

transference

these dooms for which

There's no insurance

what

2.3989 : 4/4/16 : So My Mind Insists

One of my last pages

signifying nothing

analogy for the ages

Get this allegory humming

Or put this one

out of its mystery

It's a swell thing to be done

or so my mind insists to me

what

2.3988 : 4/3/16 : Lotta Lotta

Whole lotta lotta

but I'll just say

hey yeah

One thing worked out

and another

thing or two

may, yeah

top or bottom

I'm a rock steady

send me a sign

if you think

your teacher's ready

for me

what

2.3987 : 4/2/16 : And the Moon

The early shot

on a different kind of

trip

accepting it

no mere mutter

charm or

cantrip

A little little

bit of ease-up

coming soon

between

you me and the moon

what

2.3986 : 4/1/16 : The Rural Route

Battles won on points

dim by dumb luck

leave it to the dreamy dupes

think they're getting

unstuck

stay cynical and mean

stack another row of bricks on

fall back to

the rural route somehow

Lord and really

get my sticks on

what

2.3985 : 3/31/16 : AIM

No idea what

the new weapon is

no idea

how to take aim

take a minute

I can reckon this

my own man

even if it's not my game

what

2.3984 : 3/30/16 : Better Silent

Better silent

than to speak now this feeling

unable to get used to

the vast glass ceiling

Ever so low

and far too thick

no use shouting

waving my stick

push the focus outside

Say a prayer

try to breathe a new canopy

ephemeral as air

what

2.3983 : 3/29/16 : Dig In II

Dig in

get Quinn

when I drop

you'll hit

the pin

bumpers bump

flippers flip

know I got a pocketful

so dang hip

ramp up

dig in no tilt

dang but

that machine

is built

what

2.3982 : 3/28/16 : Dig In

Things may be

quiet a while

I have to dig in

and crawl about a mile

what

2.3981 : 3/27/16 : Not Stepping Back

Ignore the cracks

this egg's not cooked yet

it's not a

resolution or a side bet

I don't know the next

chapter honest

but I'm not stepping back

and it'll be freestyle

surely but no mere hack

what

2.3980 : 3/26/16 : Hustle

like the quiet

in this deep middle

let the hustle rest

Hang up my fiddle

There's always stares

always fussing

while you're subtracting

I'll be plussing

what

2.3979 : 3/25/16 : Spawn

Dropping glib asides

in the vidja game vernacular

dull observers at best

on the annual spectacular

Hey you cool kids:

get the hell off my lawn

High time I calculate

and contemplate the spawn

Point of appearance

moment of rebirth

Behold the light

and be sworn

witness to its worth

this has got to be the year

new possibilities spawn

this low ebb

this pining for dawn

just when I'm counted out

I'll reappear

transformed by the spawn point

newly freed from fear

what

2.3978 : 3/24/16 : Not Sorry

Pain is driving

I'm down I'm skiving

sorry not sorry

I'm just sick of that one story

what

2.3977 : 3/23/16 : Groove

digging a groove in again

hard stop drop a pin

gather up these knuckle bones

and better pack my strops and hones

what

2.3976 : 3/22/16 : Steam

Less of the illusory

aspirational steam

more of the rolled flat

curdled as cream

this corner lately turned

hammer and rack

can't shut a one up

from the talking of attack

but I'll place another tin-patch

and pressure test the head

keep tending steam

and not spurn my bed

what

2.3975 : 3/21/16 : Rah

Oh right

rah rah this

still scrapping

still hunting bliss

pain pressing

burned some minutes

What the hell else

all impermanent, finite

what

2.3974 : 3/20/16 : Last Stretch

Last stretch of the

last long hour

nothing mystic

still no power

still not enough scratch

and never enough time

still down often enough

in the muck and slime

Why on earth

still pushing this rock?

next time it gets past me

for real taking stock

what

2.3973 : 3/19/16 : Distortion

Give unto me distortion

Not strong enough to sing clean

And anyway it's got that

20th Century thing, soft machine

Guess there's no need to beg

Got deep warp on every tip

Guess I'm clearly here to fight

I guess I got to take this trip

what

2.3972 : 3/18/16 : Creature

Creature of habits?

of circumstance

creature of destiny

fate

or dumb chance

creature of necessity

show up for my shift

create a little fantasy

to give myself a lift

more than a creature

maybe only

in my mind

more than misbegotten

luckless

and blind

stuck in the persona

of how I invest

until another day turns

and the creature

may rest

what

2.3971 : 3/17/16 : Struck by Lightning

Struck by lightning

in the hall of dark tales

I scorned adventure

but it scorned my travails

and oh what got

times passed

drawn out at last

and shot the rails

what

2.3970 : 3/16/16 : Cup

Another cup of coffee

no original thought

but hey I'm regular

maybe you ought

to move it along

to someone cooler

bigger

as I'm busy

over here

with my

hair trigger

what

2.3969 : 3/15/16 : Cars

Something about cars

the fools driving

every kind

selling and

buying

and the way

of my mind

blocked in the

cattle stands

getting to the grind

and drive and drive

until we're all

driven blind

what

2.3968 : 3/14/16 : Trap

It was a trap

and the beast was

all ire

curse the jaws

the snare the wire

We set the beast free

with no small danger

hail to heroes

hail the brave ranger

what

2.3967 : 3/13/16 : Laughed the Lord

Laughed the Lord

and said

well are you going to

or not going to

believe in the new thing?

call it a leap

or a long shot

think you've seen its

shadow a lot

think it's something

still

in your hand

you've got to bring?

what

2.3966 : 3/12/16 : Empty Handed

Can't go with the gimmicks

the genre clichés

I had a better plan

but I blew my plays

And if I don't like

where this one landed

well I put it down where I could

and walked out empy-handed

what

2.3965 : 3/11/16 : Simpletons

Simpletons

their simple solutions

inertia bombs

all the drab institutions

better

look look within

focus on the progeny

and bringing

the sheaves in

leave the simpletons

to their cheap debates

I'll rule a tiny kingdom

in the ruins

of the city states

what

2.3964 : 3/10/16 : Crusaders

No new crusaders

No new crusade

Watching the yokel revolution

Cooking up the hater-ade

business as usual

ain't post-cap yet

on the dark future express

with the war scarp

what

2.3963 : 3/9/16 : Briefing

Give me my briefing

time for ascent

think I'm too early

get well bent

I didn't earn it

but I waited it out

I'm on a big adventure

like Mr. Roundabout

what

2.3962 : 3/8/16 : Rubber & Chrome

Dead ends

at every turning

or maybe it's

that rather than

talking I'd be burning

books and bridges

rubber and chrome

oh to burn

this offensive tome

oh to give up

oh to bugout

oh to quit

and other fantasy

dead ends

at every turning

where I lost every friend

what

2.3961 : 3/7/16 : Illusion Sword

Will I live or die

by illusion sword

this shadowy

dragon's hoard

mist fade-in

sunlight

none hear it swish

as it cuts air

as I wish you'd spare

an ear to

my fight

and I cascade

blow upon blow

and oh down the

mountain we go

and here's a precious pearl

a hundred hundred

glimmerings all whirl

what

2.3960 : 3/6/16 : Promenade

Oh but what a lot

of promises I made

they circle my brow

like a stately promenade

and day by day

I pick off a few

and every day it seems

a dozen more anew

what

2.3959 : 3/5/16 : Epiphany

Tomorrow I'll

check the gate

get something on paper

won't be late

get a strategy

turn the corner

get the epiphany

no more a mourner

what

2.3958 : 3/4/16 : Merit

Paid in merit

spoiler: it's twenty bucks

I keep sluffing this

but just right now

I don' give two fucks

what

2.3957 : 3/3/16 : Discernment

Look at me for discernment

lord you're

barking up the wrong tree

how that

finger landed here

is a damn

mystery

empty my pockets

phone off the hook

must be too late surely

to write that book

what

2.3956 : 3/2/16 : Burn

Here I commemorate

a cheating time

bust out a hoary old

and cheating rhyme

anticipating

my favorite vice

the a-em will not

seem so nice

burn baby burn

I'll get away with that

call it a parody

a rat-a-tat

could go on endless

but I know my limitsex

and at the extreme

bust out all tired old gimmicks

what

2.3955 : 3/1/16 : Whinge

Usual whinge

tugging at the ends

maybe next time

maybe make amends

push and pull

well hell I've had it

dumb refrain

however I add it

what

2.3954 : 2/29/16 : Snap

Game's changed but it's

hard as hell to change the board

5 century legacy

the word spread by the sword

used to think I had an answer

just more kiddy claptrap

I chase the truth around a tree

it always eludes me, snap

what

2.3953 : 2/28/16 : Wreck of Truth

No turning point

or crises

and despite warning

about

futile devices

I'll voice a little

wreck of truth

your way

time ain't going

much of nowhere

and this race

is here to stay

what

2.3952 : 2/27/16 : Moon

Just another rock

I'll never make

So many trips

most never take

Somewhere though

between Mars and the Moon

a steaming silver teapot

and a silver soon

what

2.3951 : 2/26/16 : Vault

Vault the usual

impediment

Only one way

to stay from

sinking in the sediment

keep moving

till you hit solid rock

quick or still

it's all tick tock

tick tock

what

2.3950 : 2/25/16 : The Click

Pitched the click

for that Muscle

schtick

current events

all the latest

too small tents

Shut it off

and power down

too late in the day

to fake a frown

what

2.3949 : 2/24/16 : Soft Rules

Did you come

for the spectacle

surprise just a

receptacle

And what you thought

you'd find here

You'll see if you've

a mind dear

I'm beating down

the soft rules

no time need

hard and fast tools

just get me to

the finishing

to hell all life's

diminishing

what

2.3948 : 2/23/16 : Lash

Just another damn

lash and spur

and every insult

I incur

to hell with all

You devil dogs

just try a mile

in these rotten clogs

what

2.3947 : 2/22/16 : TURN

Don't like it any better

from the other side

the chopping block

the price on every hide

must shut doors

guess I better learn

And hope to roll right

on the next turn

Since we can never

do one thing over

Maybe missed my

chance to be a rover

But turning is the way

of all that moves

And such as we still might

Strike a little gold in our grooves

what

2.3946 : 2/21/16 : Grasper of Empire

Teach me great one

from beyond

the other side of

the great campfire

every illusion

every soft calling

throwing down every

grasper of

empire

too late again

missing my chance for quiet

no reclaiming

but I'll learn this round

not even going to

try to fix it

I'll go peaceful

not a sound

what

2.3945 : 2/20/16 : Curse of Repetition

Call of creation

yields only imitation

curse of repetition

imagine X ten billion

whatever I thought

it was far less I brought

and no crew no team

just me and the eye-beam

what

2.3944 : 2/19/16 : The Kicking

Gritting and

griping

such a one for

the kicking

been here so often

but still feel

the pricking

at my thumbs

my heels

my hackles

Sure the hell am one

for taking up

shackles

what

2.3943 : 2/18/16 : Dim

Time to wipe this

dim biz

I shoulda known

Stay in school kids

I should say

Something profound

or find some sand

and pound

what

2.3942 : 2/17/16 : Rent

Don't call it an experiment

I pray my hours and

it pays the rent

and if it gets a little

Slidey slide

sometimes you know

I've got to feel the glide

Don't dare call me a heretic

You ain't the first

they never made it stick

a little bent well

So's a long bow

I spit my say so

like an arrow flow

Don't call it

a holding pattern

I've just been roaming

with my lonely lantern

maybe someday I'll get found

say I stayed pretty honest

I'll be bound

what

2.3941 : 2/16/16 : Bad Breaths

It's said I can't see

and I believe you

believe me

look for hope

not what you want

to show me

Maybe what you

need

to not show me

what you don't have

So how can I see

lost count

of the bad breaths again

I don't deserve

to count to ten

what

2.3940 : 2/15/16 : Hump

Want to change the frame

but more the shame

heaven knows how I'm

getting over the hump this time

Surely the same refrain

sic transit pain to pain

only to say it

but this output's prime

Have to commit

to another round of it

there's no alternative

we all gotta hump our own hill

Give up blaming fate

get started at a cut rate

And yes I know I brought

it on myself but still

what

2.3939 : 2/14/16 : Love

Love first last

ceiling and floor

If you've got it

you need more

While many say

its age is past

I say its renaissance

is here at last

what

2.3938 : 2/13/16 : Wind Up

If I could get a

wind up these sails

who'm I fooling

as the light fails

Well hell if a man

doesn't want to

sink he bails

moving slow

Someday I'll

have this rig on rails

what

2.3937 : 2/12/16 : Dream

Way too old

to be a protégé

have to make

this mess work out

Some way

see this eye

can you help me

with this beam?

And maybe then

I could see my dream

oh I've been having them

strange and dark

current events sometimes

abstract and stark

no sign at all

of that holy cup

but I gotta soldier on

since I can't

give dreaming up

what

2.3936 : 2/11/16 : AHA

Had a crazy little notion

prioritize, control

leave the Almighty to concern

himself with your immortal soul

and meaning and the big aha

line up ducks and hold your applause

what

2.3935 : 2/10/16 : Views

Question the wisdom

of my views

but I guess everybody

must have some

all the this and that

I heard the news

sometimes never

seemed as dumb

Another thing to give up

by and by

I get hooked easy

and that's no lie

but I'll get by

this or that to lose

always be

another round of views

what

2.3934 : 2/9/16 : Lean

Not lean, not efficient

many days praying

merely to be sufficient

What on earth is this corpus

metaphysical

or for this gross material

standing ponderous and quizzical

I wonder wonder

was it something I ate

for sure a lot of dodgy trim

gets pushed across your plate

and nobody gets to eat

with hands that are clean

and my chance is likely long gone

to evermore be lean

what

2.3933 : 2/8/16 : Charms

Strung six charms

on a silver thread

one was waiting

wee silver bed

one was a plump

little turkey leg

a set dumbbells

on a tiny peg

Strung one coin

no more no less

a silver watch

my minutes to bless

and the last was a square

of flawless mirror

to distill the feelings

till they flow purer

what

2.3932 : 2/7/16 : Calling

So sure I'm envying our

called in their calling

Even if the market is falling

Covet their assurance and spirit

should be there for me too but I don't hear it

did I cross the line some day so far back

some days doubt there ever was a a right track

and if you could clear it up in a minute

anyway here's how I'd begin it

put hand in hand and agree

none will rest till all are free

they'll insist the cost will be appalling

but can't resist the army of your calling

what

2.3931 : 2/6/16 : Sums

Empty disaster

I'm no broadcaster

fear's still there

and nowhere to get

past her

but just to go down

and whatever comes

the fear, disaster

and its sums

what