2.4206 : 11/7/16 : What Will the Future Think

What will the future think

of our little contest

You know I think they'll have

forgotten all about this mess

a bump in one long smear

of shallow drifting waste

hell if they'l mark at all

one sticky lump in the paste

like Rocky said about

water in a black cup

we afford the past no sense of choice

and then I drank it all up

what

2.4205 : 11/6/16 : Genius

Sometimes a glimpse

a little genius flash

feels good okay

but never gets me cash

and never really gels

all fragmentizes

yet I'll be good say thanks

for all little surprises

what

2.4204 : 11/5/16 : Horse

Having worked

like a work horse

deserve

my oats of course

and as to

the usual baloney

blow it off

I'm no show pony

what

2.4203 : 11/4/16 : Evil on the TeeVee

We love evil on the teevee

but it don't stay there boohoo

Yet things stay normal mostly

and I need my teevee kicks just like you

It's a reflection to be sure

well maybe a bit of give and take

evil the abstract clear and pure

impersonal and deadly snake

And the real such disappointment

broken banal gloomy greedy trash

and that fear you ma have an appointment

and some do, and that's the bloody gash

what

2.4202 : 11/3/16 : Life After

I just see

life after everything

no one can

prove anything

to you old

never friend

I'm singing

tried smart

I'll take being kind

the ones we know

only as mind

And like always

nothing in my

hand I'm bringing

what

2.4201 : 11/2/16 : The Big Game

While the big game's

still up in the air

and my level of stress

hell it's just not fair

too many games brewing

bad old world humming

I guess I knew the score

and trouble keeps coming

it's not sewn up yet

me trying to dodge a bad brood

what you get picking favorites

but we're way past mood

must there always be losers?

Oh babe with me you cannot lose

my ear's to the ground

to be sure I'm expecting good news

what

2.4200 : 11/1/16 : Different

Doubt it makes

a bit of difference

but in a bout

of difference

I hung it up

and absconded

not quite satisfied

but unbonded

what

2.4199 : 10/31/16 : Jolly

Despite a brutal schedule

We got jolly on Saint's Eve

and I raise my glass

to our good fellows

Jeff and Steve

Oh bounty of the ferment pile

soon to be squirrels' dinner

and though I could feel low

I'll say I came out as a winner

what

2.4198 : 10/30/16 : Cliff

Some kind

of crisis:

a cliff

step light

pray

for lift

what

2.4197 : 10/29/16 : I May Have Said Anon

I may have said anon

I paid enough in every coin

Nobody cares we're all stripped

Clean before the waters join

and carry us without a boat

to where the driftless time shoals float

and I don't have to

show my work

still from your mug

I'll swipe that smirk

what

2.4196 : 10/28/16 : Concentration

Should have studied

distillation

can't get

enough

concentration

the potency

the solvency

lines define

the golden ration

the essence that

the spark defines

the legacy of

burned wines

but I didn't study

that spirit nation

and now must battle

dissipation

what

2.4195 : 10/27/16 : Impossible

Coherence seems impossible

run ragged circles

till the mighty call

pick up the pieces

till you trip headlong

and so today today no - got it wrong

what

2.4194 : 10/26/16 : No More Downcast

No more downcast

forgetting every past

ignoring future shades

inhabit whole these

present glades

scratch still with me

so the itch insists

endeavor to see nothing

through the mists

all will be as

ever was afloat

and won't contain

this laughter

rising in my throat

what

2.4193 : 10/25/16 : Din

This noise mostly echoes

grows to a din

got to block more and more

passageways

Still it gets in

why am I susceptible

have to fight

to not engage

wrath and knowing

riot and rage

ascend me to the

Sphere of silence

squelch the din

grant me the sound shell

of the terrapin

sink me in depths

unfathomed sunless sea

I won't rise

until you'll run with me

what

2.4192 : 10/24/16 : Polls

Polling up

and polling down

quite a

rolla coasta

for a working clown

the joint got

stone crazy

while my back

was turned

start shoveling

and bailing

and pray

it's not

all burned

what

2.4191 : 10/23/16 : Prism

Refract

through the

magic prism

see

nothing in this

day to be redeemed

no deed

no cataclysm

nothing in this world

but gold

gleamed

what

2.4190 : 10/22/16 : Secret World

The secret world

in full effect

staying up way too late

and getting wrecked

laying vapor trails

sad pathetic

it's all because I missed my chance

to be a peripatetic

no blame

except it's all on me

got to find another

way to be free

that's so secret world

I know of it of old

I better get my shit together

Soon comes the cold

what

2.4189 : 10/21/16 : Abandoned Digs

The abandoned digs

may be no longer

accessible

somewhere an empty

Avatar

abandoned in

the vestibule

are we still in

a simulation

doubtless by

some definition

where are you

old friend

and oh

whither the mission?

what

2.4188 : 10/20/16 : All Chorus

Don't wanna

talk about old symbols

all chorus no verse

I put up with it

up to now

but you know I gotta

break sometime

holy cow

and all considered

you know I could have

done worse

what

2.4187 : 10/19/16 : Plod

Bringing something

thanking God

pretend it's a sprint

this plod

oh I got to

get back on the upbeat

take the take the

wheel Lord

Stuff me in the backseat

what

2.4186 : 10/18/16 : Twin

Pair the identical

hasty unthought

twin of the high time

You tower me Lancelot

got on warped fable

and mixed metaphor

another mute piece

and who knows what it's for

what

2.4185 : 10/17/16 : Didact

I had a feeling

about the didact twin

I know distraction

know when I let it in

and so it goes oh

and rolls oh on and on

the didact and its twin

this wreck's a marathon

what

2.4184 : 10/16/16 : Ghost Touch

Had to fight

to shake off

the ghost touch

Still wasn't right

Well I

don't ask much

this will pass

also

it all does

no reason for

it it's

all just 'cause

what

2.4183 : 10/15/16 : Last I Heard

Feeling rabid

strike, retreat

soon every enemy

at my feet

in dreams

this world no

black and white

nobody likes the story

so I don't write

I like dreams too

perfect world

an old story

round the globe was hurled

now tending young minds

last I heard

and from me

not a word

what

2.4182 : 10/14/16 : Swing

Got plenty of push

but I'm weak on swing

and if you don't have that

You don't have anything

because push is always straight

but the world waves

I have to work so hard

to make up with my clefs and staves

I'm short on branches

Seeking for the vine

Once my source of everything

my anodyne

the center holds

it must have been me swung away

Swing me back

grant me momentum I can trust

grant me rotation

I'll provide the thrust

maybe in stillness

as I least expect

grant that the swing is hard

and grant that it connect

what

2.4181 : 10/13/16 : Time Lost

Wish to say

the last time lost

So weak accounting

further cost

So weak accounting

present gain

fades fails

at the same time again

what

2.4180 : 10/12/16 : No Trips No Wars

I didn't think you

could make me feel any

smaller old friend

but as you near your end

I want to hang up my lute

They ought to clip

a few of mine to

add to yours

no trips, no wars

no harp lyre or flute

So I never had the touch

or worked hard enough

and if there's any such

thing as the tower

your place is ten thousand

above mine

and I just can't imagine

I who'll never slay the dragon

will see many heads nodding

When I sing

my own decline

what

2.4179 : 10/11/16 : Just What Abides

The fall's so far

I fall asleep

dream I'm walking

a tightrope

up an incline steep

I got so caught up

in the oohs and ahs

I forgot to pull

my contract out

read the escape clause

everyone was hot

and taking sides

I was lost in

contemplation

of just what abides

can anything hold up

to the deeptime shuffle

the chaos boys

were grinning

I got ready for a scuffle

what

2.4178 : 10/10/16 : The Stupid

Get the jump

on the stupid

I ain't no cupid

that's not my line

but I

loved the man so fine

one day a freebie

haunt the

heebie jeebie

heard my man

had a stroke

confess I'd dig

a real smoke

what

2.4177 : 10/9/16 : Queer Beer

Drink this

queer beer

label says

anywhere but here

got to wrap it up

So quick

ephemera

and sure it won't stick

what

2.4176 : 10/8/16 : The Young Ones

Load all guns

with soft bullets

let the boys

have their fun

rarely will convince them

anything's

better than a gun

games get less funny

when the grownups play

well they generally

send the young ones

anyway

what

2.4175 : 10/7/16 : Dream of Dreams

Watch eyes blaze light

the dream of dreams

is on tonight

all lost all returned

and over all

the eye blaze burned

the chalices the gorgeous cup

I thought that I

could give it up

but in the dream

of dreams I rose

took cup again

toast upon toast

the way to work

and to behave

time to be stronger

kind and brave

what

2.4174 : 10/6/16 : The Vision of the Door

Sunk deep in the swirl

commonplace

happenstance

a beast and a churl

moony face

ruled by chance

ruled by patterns

don't want to

follow anymore

and done

done done

with the vision of the door

bark like a tree

no use peeling me

no use in conclusion

just swirl

and delusion

what

2.4173 : 10/5/16 : The Tailings

Nailed nothing

just coughed up

the tailings

what's left to say

sameness

failings

what

2.4172 : 10/4/16 : The Next Plate

Too busy living

strange but true

to get wound up

on this hullaballoo

the popularity contest

just got called off

we're going to do it with a top

Just spin that sucker off

there's lots of bad news

I'm restless, adrift

always always waiting

for the next plate to shift

and really shake things up

whoopsie this may be it

I'm too busy living though

to throw a fit

what

2.4171 : 10/3/16 : Long Days

These long days that don't quite end

prolonged with little tweaks

finessed around the bend

but it does not profit

and I feel all lost

And soon come the short days

perpetual frost

400 parts per million

Some saying it's all she wrote

nothing's ever that simple

but those words stick in my throat

and I said a hundred thousand times

there's the end of that

What's next

but these small hour cards

turn up again

and I'm every bit as vexed

what

2.4170 : 10/2/16 : The Matter of the Principle

The matter of the principle

how the hell to sustain

will it ever get better

been too long to skip the refrain

Stacked all up side by side

each moment drop and ripple

Somehow still perched on

this nasty wave

trying to tame the principle

just say I'm stupid

wouldn't behave realistic

just say we're typical

not hard to find the statistic

pushed below the happy mean

by the principle's cruel math

and a bad taste for the finer things

and I'm thrown out with the bath

what

2.4169 : 10/1/16 : Busy

Let me get this

busy biz right out of the way

Some days get tired of

talking like I've something to say

just write the break

and leave the rest

One less thing

to get off my chest

what

2.4168 : 9/30/16 : 12 Transits

12 transits

Well begun

I have seen and

pondered everyone

mark it simple

You've set a perfect pace

and you're the light

the sun to my face

what

2.4167 : 9/29/16 : Every Minute from the Future

Wind down

let it all wind down

abandon all

good effort

become fallow ground

let every vice flourish

oh the easy feeling

to giving into sloth

and stealing

every minute from the

future

every minute from

the herd

surely end up

running

every muttering

a curse word

what

2.4166 : 9/28/16 : PRINCE

Sell a million

year after year

born rich

watch more appear

the unfairness

real but I'm bored now

want what's inside?

fine, go get cored now

you hear these soft swells

time for the big klang

at least you didn't do that

guess I'll leave

that hope hang

what

2.4165 : 9/27/16 : Fairy Tales

As to those

who rework

the fairy tales

maybe they believe

a world freed

from these dumb travails

Maybe they're as cynical

as any rough barker

steering traffic to the

freak show

and the sides getting starker

what

2.4164 : 9/26/16 : A Minute

A minute

called to perform

not much else

to pull out

of the storm

I took my

minute

to polish off

 a tick

of this slow

churning

clock

that's my

only real trick

what

2.4163 : 9/25/16 : Please Imagine

Instead please imagine

a plodding strum

fit to accompany

a tuneless hum

I'm imagining a shipwreck

longing for it

day one again

later I'll throw a fit

what

2.4162 : 9/24/16 : Mush

Doesn't it just

yank all my chains

Don't I have mush

instead of all the brains

Shouldn't I just

pack it up

shove right off

Keep my eyes down

hold back that cough

wheel must not be centered

bellows must be cracked

fountain must have sprung a leak

somewhere way, way back

try to stir the mush up

one original thought

maybe never wanted one real thing

however I might have sought

what

2.4161 : 9/23/16 : Another Seven

5 years scut on the floor

5 years apprentice

Don't speak the language

maybe non compos mentis

So many things

that will never happen

one that always will

this fantasy game

makes decision

a bitter pill

find my own crazy hours

find my galley kitchen

finally end this treading water

never time to get a stitch in

tear gets a little wider

can't think that way by heaven

5 years dirty starting now

and then another seven

what

2.4160 : 9/22/16 : Monocle

Grant me the monocle

a good man

Unbuyable credentials

from a real old clan

no I'm on the other

side of that boot

wasn't meaning to get real

oh well oh shoot

what

2.4159 : 9/21/16 : 500 Years

Foul the future

for 500 years

raising the temperature

water up to our ears

and there's blame

to go around for days

and little rhyme

or reason to who pays

what

2.4158 : 9/20/16 : Nightside

Still too stark

divide

the day

the night side

too simple to

construct

a tale of it

on me I lucked

my way through

many also

fell into

the nightside

and no longer know

where or how I

might abide

what

2.4157 : 9/19/16 : Deal

Get a deal ahead

of the old

fall apart

Kings like me

of putting

the horse before the cart

will find around

the next bend

a message you can't

share or spend

what

2.4156 : 9/18/16 : Mixed

Won't be mixed up

much longer

apply the rule

razor is stronger

to cleave truth

from the dumb block

belay my going

all half cocked

Plumb a line

sun to center

I'll be meek

the good repenter

if you convince me

I'll get at least a slim chance

to kick a step yet

in the big dance

what

2.4155 : 9/17/16 : Not Yet

Oh lord grant me

to stop being a punk

but not yet

the secret world

and all its not so secret junk

but not yet

remind me of 24

years back or so

If I'd dumped the bad noise

and made a real go

can't quite cotton to

the full transformation

but oh what I didn't get

teach me a lesson

bright on today

but oh

not yet

what

2.4154 : 9/16/16 : 7 Year

The seven year cycle

is scratching at me

These pendulum hooks

always catching at me

and the whispers make

me get down at the heels

and forever thinking

on these spinning wheels

7 years again and again

and how many more

between less than one

and less than a hundred seems pretty sure

please don't even

get me started on eternity

rivers lost in the

fog of the burning puzzle tree

what

2.4153 : 9/15/16 : Ounce

What does this

ounce of prevention

look like?

little too much of

a short pier

long hike

Or more

mirror on

mirror reflection

oh give it a

current a clout

an injection

what

2.4152 : 9/14/16 : Hail

What was the word

hey hail or hist

buried amongst

a thousand reflections

and all in the wrist

what

2.4151 : 9/13/16 : Fey as Fuck

Naw it leans

way farther back

flying

fey as fuck

not a spark

of

planned attack

one hundred

percent luck

what

2.4150 : 9/12/16 : Could Wish

Could wish a couple

days free

I get a half, sick

between this

and the big red stamp

well take your pick

but I can at least

be a little easy homeside

suspect it's coming up

a bit of a weird ride

what

2.4149 : 9/11/16 : Avant-garde

These fields aren't barren

but they hoe hard

nobody said it would be

easy in the avant-garde

nobody appreciates

you'e standing way out front

and all the art we're dreaming up

to take the future's dirty brunt

I'm not young anymore

I'm waiting for my papers

Call me to a desk job

in the rear you bottom scrapers

I need a backup plan

no pension for the lonesome bard

and till they send replacements

I stand my post for the avant-garde

what

2.4148 : 9/10/16 : Catch Fire

Will any of it catch fire

it all seemed such a dry pyre

not now

wet sog

Feeling so often

a dumb slog

still feel a spark in me

some callback to all

hark and free

maybe just a fool

to tales in books

this dust world

travails and crooks

What else

Keep the little stick spinning

no spark yet

but sing loud

like I'm winning

what

2.4147 : 9/9/16 : Sling

Such an expert

at this sidearm sling

catch you all a breeze

and not hit one damn thing

I'll even reprise

give you instant redux

doesn't take much

to get another by you

what

2.4146 : 9/8/16 : DIME

Throw down

that dime

I'm turning

tight

all for real

thrown down tonight

they're not going to

seem me wind

up the sucker punch

and wrap this

whole thing on

a hunch

what

2.4145 : 9/7/16 : Drift

Stop the drift

the shoal

of images

peeled quite

easily

kicked off

and tossed

oh you could

stick around

hope a good

card turns

getting monotonous

but drift round to

all the way round

till the old why

is lost

what

2.4144 : 9/6/16 : WANNA

Every day lately

never really wanna

ain't no conspiracy

me I'm no gunner

taking nothing for granted

I'm bowing out, fast

bring on the big ideas

run up the mast

what

2.4143 : 9/5/16 : Labor Day

No end of labor

whether or no paid

stop acting like

it's anything but choices made

the doctrine of whatever

Comes to this hand

or the other

whether or no planned

giving thanks

for any chance to point it right

giving thanks for labor

day and into night

what

2.4142 : 9/4/16 : In Peace

Go in peace for real

for once

just go

no stress

no dunce

not blind

still facing

facts

allowed for once

to stop

relax

what

2.4141 : 9/3/16 : What Comes Around Goes Around

Take comfort in the fact

that what comes around

also goes around again

the wheel metaphor is

awfully worn

and rusty oh but then

it gets you there

anyway doesn't care

everybody used it to death

the wind the river

the bridge the clock

cup and ring and arc and breath

what

2.4140 : 9/2/16 : Opportunity Comes Small

Opportunity comes

small these days

doesn't really knock

but sometimes stays

for a week or two

gets in the way

follows through often enough

but will rarely pay

Far from too proud

to take whatever I get

feeling on the wrong side

of game and set

but not quite ready

to concede the match

or stop dreaming of one

golden opportunity I'll snatch

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

2.4138 : 8/31/16 : Get Here

Fuller of wishes

than I'd want to be

too many crutches

running fast not free

maybe after this round

I'll turn the trick

find that perfect leaf

and make it stick

a lot to let go of

a lot yet to learn

no idea how much time

not a moment to burn

but still having to

say no and no and

no to fear

still wondering

how will it get here

what

2.4137 : 8/30/16 : Business

All the business

crowds out art

try hard to supplement

the losses with more heart

wringing on this stone

with a wretched abandon

scarcely thinking 

anymore

what I'm trying to lay a

hand on

what

2.4136 : 8/29/16 : Papa Benjamin

Ate to dullness

drank not quite

to exultation

ol Papa Benjamin

sure teach you

your station

was cooking something fancy

but it cooled in the stove

a little too apropos

but forget that by Jove

what

2.4135 : 8/28/16 : Queen of Night

Me missing the high notes

by two full steps

too many words

too low concepts

sling a fast prayer

to the queen of night

but I'm coming in low

and I'm keeping it bright

what

2.4134 : 8/27/16 : Going Going

Another that was

going going

gone

tiny bit of history

didn't get along

not about me

not important

So let me step aside

this instant

Most won't remember

and I won't remind

this mystery fruit

has such a bitter rind

and it's surpassing strange

in a past I didn't notice

the sea change

what

2.4133 : 8/26/16 : Tapped

Guess I figure I tapped out

a couple hundred times

with this old-fangled phone

I just kept feeding dimes

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

what I wouldn't give

to connect and inspire

best I manage most days

is to correct and respire

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

hoping the flow carries me

around a deeper bend

hoping one button out of twelve

is marked send

keep a bead on the pulse

keep my hands occupied

whatever they'll say

they won't deny I've tried

what

2.4132 : 8/25/16 : Refuse

Say refuse

so say not this

say refuse

and say not that

but can't evade

the cul-de-sac

as back and shoulders

strike the mat

and cannot name

the earthly foe

and cannot seem

to catch the flow

what

2.4131 : 8/24/16 : The Lily

Wrestling foolish

against

considering the lily

don't know why

I'm so

stubborn and silly

all these

riches heaped

around my feet

Still there's

a lot of red ink

and dear Lord

this heat

what

2.4130 : 8/23/16 : However Many Look

Might be a little crazy

with no tale to tell

why take up the quill

rarely goes all that well

however many look

Few see a reason to remain

as I peel another layer

off the old onion brain

what

2.4129 : 8/22/16 : Status Update

Everybody's asking

for status update

Kidding nobody is

asking for that

cooked up a million

got about 7

2 or three are me

wearing a hat

I'm going to

gee I don't know

I didn't forget

just nothing there

at least I'm at large

at least I got pages

at least there's a number

at least there's still air

what

2.4128 : 8/21/16 : Ties

Ties come to surface

tangle up my narrative

old influences

no delusion and no snare to give

makes me want to

give my speech

oh I oh I could a been

a could a been

a contender

for those whose grasp

wasn't backed up by their reach

still I'd rather be

truthful than a pretender

guess I'll try to find

a way to tell the tale

a little less bitter

a little less stale

for the sake of the ties

the old millennium

and I suppose anyway

he's seen plenty of 'em

what

2.4127 : 8/20/16 : Can't Wait Forever

Can't wait forever

Someone to ring a bell

Dinner time or what fresh hell

shore up the memory leak

not one day was lost

and all will be released

with the melting of the permafrost

Whatever can I do but

upload, stream

the ways of this

acquisitive world

makes me scream

and I just have to

build my own

new reason why

I can't wait forever

while forever tumbles by

what

2.4126 : 8/19/16 : Cardinality

jump

speed

Cardinality

Could I ever

make my dumb dreams

a reality?

Slide

dodge

capture the flag

Wallrun

free climb

call it Super Tag

what

2.4125 : 8/18/16 : Hardly Worth

No name for this

mood

no interest

in a

better attitude

tonight

getting me

nowhere

hardly worth

saying

hardly worth

any of this

squealing

and braying

what

2.4124 : 8/17/16 : Decks

Clear decks

for wicked diversions

every dark night

every midnight excursion

shuffle

and repeat

tied up

not dried up

not neat

what

2.4123 : 8/16/16 : The Sellout

The sellout wasn't nearly

the struggle expected

the better not to ponder

what facts that truth reflected

wish the price was dearer

but I picked my door

leave alone the question

what the wind up was all for

Since I couldn't hack it

and make Art pay

I'm stuck wrangling the money

learning how it got that way

and though I can't say

the spark's out and done

I'd rather keep the filthy secret

from just everyone

what

2.4122 : 8/15/16 : Mundane

Guess I got domesticated

mundane

can't get attached

to the old crazy train

radical trips

or Foxfire dreams

thinking maybe it's all

pretty much what it seems

what can anybody do

but stand upright

remembering times long gone

and what's left of old insight

what

2.4121 : 8/14/16 : Ache

Disinclined to fight through

to write through the ache

factor of aging

bad choices, rack

countless other maybes

add up to quite a stack

and I pulled hella duty

so I won't apologize

and I have to move it on

leave the ache where it lies

what

2.4120 : 8/13/16 : Old Tapes

More on the ball

than I thought guess it's something

so spin a little more up

Out of nothing

strange dreaming

listening to old tapes

the hole in history

that yawns and gapes

dreaming about coming

across the real gold stuff

that felt like happened

time to time

but in the real it's always so rough

and so the past

resembles the present

and we find the former's

not so nearly senescent

what

2.4119 : 8/12/16 : Grouch

Guess I better

quell this grouch

kick the lump man

off the couch

spit on vice

and clean house

grasp up my witch-stick

and dowse

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

2.4117 : 8/10/16 : Can't Wait

Can't wait

for a novel brain wave

you think its great

but who do you

have to save?

plenty, probably

but here's the wrap

glove it up

with a hard slap

what

2.4116 : 8/9/16 : Pusher

Sang many an ode to pushing

didn't really like to talk

about the pusher

the ratatat

the alley cat

well he had a clean pitch

that's one thing for sure

when the ill gets nasty

from tip to top

when you're always thinking

how you've got to stop

pusher is waiting

at the needle drop

triple digit gram vinyl

gloss as black ice

unrelenting:

guess you gotta choose your vice

what

2.4115 : 8/8/16 : Nodding

Can't keep the thread

in motion

tired of beach

and ocean

Losing track

and always

on the nod

nodding

not agreeing

Could be terror

could wind up

freeing

nod along

and keep alert

last century's country

lost our shirts

but turned it over by main course

foiled the robbery of course

what

2.4114 : 8/7/16 : Bad & Ugly

Made it maybe halfway

didn't make it to the cannon

the train, the prison chorus

led by false lights

led by mammon

the destruction of the bridge

ecstasy among the tombstones

guess I've learned it well enough

guess I got it in my bones

the defeat of bad and ugly

who doesn't want that joint

though I saw half just in memory

that was well beside the point

what

2.4113 : 8/6/16 : Cool It

Better cool it

better wind down

I know this corner

I've been this clown

and I don't wait

to pay the full price

because it's never worth it

and it's never nice

what

2.4112 : 8/5/16 : Saw Darkness

Saw darkness

usual sorts

I know my way around

jack of all ports

tale of the

bust up and fall down

hard knock gospel

Cap and gown

You say the story

didn't hang together

died like so many

things of its internal weather

what

Chasing the True Quill

Hmm, well I haven't gone Meta in here in a good while. After finishing the 6,667th song in the planned 10,000 cycle of the second Songs of Day project it seemed like time for a check-in. Two thirds in, 9ish years to go... it no longer feels inevitable that I'll make it all the way. I don't expect to stop writing, more that I could, you know, unintentionally cease to exist. On this mortal plain anyway.

Ah but that was always the deal and I won't dwell on it.  I put song number 2.6667, The Art Century, in observance of David Bowie's album Low (all tied up in the 1001 song project-within-a-project I'm closing in on now at number 935), in the can tonight. And we now resume our briefly interrupted...

what

2.4111 : 8/4/16 : IDEAS

Out of ideas

like that little

bump could

slow me down

I can draw it down

to an instant

and go to town

what

2.4110 : 8/3/16 : Slipping

Got to try

to recall

things are always

Slipping

handful

of half

memories:

hardly gripping

what

2.4109 : 8/2/16 : Swing Late

Swing a late shift and

have to call old rules

counting days

maybe looking for some strength

from old rules

of some other days

saw the preacher at a

greater distance

perspective rules

of growing fame

trying not to grudge

better memories

and glad enough

he's winning at his game

what

2.4108 : 8/1/16 : Glum

Swing a little glum

nothing novel

bad tum

iffy choices vice

always rely

on paying the price

put a little skin in

the game

say your piece

sign your name

Leave the rest to

oh I don't know

hope the name's

not a no-show

what