2.4238 : 12/9/16 : A Lapse

Was gonna stand tall

but a lapse

Shot my steam

the little ups and downs

some days

make me want to scream

and just once

step into the same stream

but that's just

weakness

and a child's dream

what

2.4237 : 12/8/16 : Bank

I'd almost love

to wipe the memory bank

back about up to

just the last twenty

to be frank

blank all the kid stuff

first love

bullies brains

push and shove

get a pile of books

movies back the first time

and not drop a

day's rhyme

what

2.4236 : 12/7/16 : Come Through

Don't have to

always come through

Cop out fake it

chuck it break it

it'll grow back

always was so wack

still don't understand

what appears under my hand

what

2.4235 : 12/6/16 : Big Snow

We're all far too great

at staring down disaster

every life's one

and another after

after a while it all gets lost

a matter of scale

and so I think

this latest round may well fail

so science pulled the bacon out

again and again

but all the while it's

stoke the fire higher then

and I wish strange twisty

for a big snow

and if it isn't coming

well I just don't know

what

2.4234 : 12/5/16 : Finish

Ignore every finish line

the tale that makes me

pine and pine

no revolutions gonna strike

maybe next year

blank book

new bike

time passes slow

but years fall

like snow

wouldn't want to wish

things back

to long ago

but I'd go

For total recall

at the finish

maybe finally

scale that wall

what

2.4233 : 12/4/16 : Walls

Run into walls

each way I

turn my mind to

and that's on too

and what's to do

but grind through

one day ace

look ahead

it won't last

what you can get

because it's all gone fast

what

2.4232 : 12/3/16 : Posession

If I had posession

oh a thousand things

diamonds and baubles

sure all this

world's brass rings

I complicate

'tis my nature

can't escape the snare

of the nomenclature

but - oh:

If I had posession

be a new sheriff in town

make a name oh sure yeah

colorize

this big ugly brown

what

2.4231 : 12/2/16 : The Night Manager

Only civilization cares

I said it but it was a lie

because I care

and if you need someone

to manage your night

I might be passing by

the gremlin took my

meta mind

I had solid state back-up

take but a fire to mock me

entropy will always stack up

civilization

and I care

civilization

and I care

I won't get by

on the good old blank

stare

'cause next year

civilization

and I care

what

2.4230 : 12/1/16 : Tumble

Forget

going to tumble

right down

close eyes

to the ride

no renown 

no coin

no guide

and where I can't

tumble

I'll slide

what

2.4229 : 11/30/16 : Abide

Can't abide

a minute more

I'll draw or claw

or dig a door

in a dream

or in the cursed

cube

So desperate

they'll never catch me rube

what

2.4228 : 11/29/16 : The Mess It Led To

Need to remedy or redeem

all it ever falls to

or does it only seem

fearing the next

reckoning

and none call

none are beckoning

another falseness

dressed as a passion

so are we tangled

fleeing the ration

that was super sufficient

oh if we only knew

but did not

and the mess it led to

what

2.4227 : 11/28/16 : Grant Me to Defy All Expectations

Grant me to defy

all expectations

give unto me

the wealth of nations

and I'll build a tower

through to the light

above the clouds

on its hill a shining sight

what

2.4226 : 11/27/16 : World Wants Blood

World wants blood

nothing else

violent death

that's all that sells

and I'm no hack

for that ghoul horse

not that anybody's

offered me a sou of course

what

2.4225 : 11/26/16 : Dope

This apperitif is straight dope

tighten up the paper

On your airplane wings

and hope

You never strike a spark

descend the flaming

angel, hark

after such a vision

where to land

open the car window

cruise an airplane hand

no idea how I got here

Where this highway leads

finish your dope

and mind these reeds

what

2.4224 : 11/25/16 : DeepWall

If I could show you

about the deepwall dream

the balcony apartment

the things that were seen

the dose effect

the electric crowd

the exhibition of

the slow and loud

but oh it all led

to a long unmagical day

and oh it leaves me

not wanting

very much, to say

what

2.4223 : 11/24/16 : Ever Loving

I am thankful

why mess it up

with debating the state

of the ever-loving

cup

of the occupant in

chief

or the retail

excesses

time enough

on all the other days

to decry the messes

I am thankful

for all my

many faults

may I carry that

shield

upon the next day's

assaults

what

2.4222 : 11/23/16 : Little Coal

Not caring to fan

the hot little coal

or try to even

see the goal

maybe we can let go

just a night and day

back on the grind soon

anyway

what

2.4221 : 11/22/16 : Free World

Free world

don't squander it

free to roam

free to ponder it

entropy is real

best to fear it

talk of a free lunch

I won't hear it

here to enjoy

here to make a mark

here to start something

here to strike a spark

in our beautiful free world

watch the fires you start

better start acting like you mean it

better start acting smart

what

2.4220 : 11/21/16 : Plans & Ideas

Plans and Ideas

had a million

no followers

and now the tide vermillion

seems imminent

little time to plan

or gin up my reputation

as an ideaman

the real sick bugs

are crawling outta the wood

and if you aren't planning yet

boy you should

what

2.4219 : 11/20/16 : Green Cup

Big disruption maybe

wake me up

no revelation not from

this green cup

a little calm would surely

soothe my soul

tell myself it's just

an object

and no great hole

So very easy

to fall off routine

maybe no shock

will help me view the scene

Still a long road

even to half the way

and all my loose ends

on display

what

2.4218 : 11/19/16 : Grit

Grit my teeth

while I sleep

one more

bad habit

watch that

green turning

ring pass don't

even try to grab it

not tonight

anyway

another iffy day

felt mad enough

to spit

but anyway

I've still got grit

what

2.4217 : 11/18/16 : Stone Age

Knocked back to my

stone ages

power failure

no point in rages

call it a vacation

from the damn tubes

wringing hands

over the wrath of the rubes

worry over Caeser

and the devil's due

the pitiable failure

of my weak kung fu

but at least maybe

I'll make up some rest

since it just keeps coming harder

and I haven't been my best

what

2.4216 : 11/17/16 : No Rolling

No rolling back days

no easy plays

every square

hard fought now

whatever anchors

I've got now

won't drop easy

chains won't

simply part

I guess I ought to be

joyfull

thay I've still

got heart

get a little

get up and go

in this

where it all went

pronounce once last

the thing is an

accident

and get rolling

crest the next hill

It's a little great

and only getting

better still

what

2.4215 : 11/16/16 : White Lies

White lies pile up like

snow that might yet

come the week

Me without crystal ball

though sorely sure

I'd take a peek

running out of reading

recycle or scrounge

something new

hell I need to toughen up

let a few less

white lies through

what

2.4214 : 11/15/16 : Catastrophe

Circle your pointer fingers

shout catastrophe

all faced the wrong way

inward woe is me

will this lazy troupe

get shocked, get back

finally get the message

gather up its damn act

what

2.4213 : 11/14/16 : Thirty

I think I saw my

old age creeping

hit me like a flash

it was coming kind of fast

can't say my reaction

was philosophical

bargains off the bat

surely won't be like that

and you my young one

will flower like

a strong young tree

be chasing dreams

worrying about thirty

barely bear to think

of the surprises

and the crises

drag me back sacred

plant me in my way

roots down in today

what

2.4212 : 11/13/16 : Left In This Heart

Kept heat on it hours

engine hates to start

resign myself

to a hundred pulls

couple billion beats

left in this heart

no pushbutton shit

spite of the battery

no time for wimpy

Self flattery

Hands stretch high

touch me with grace

they'll flinch for sure

at this grim face

what

2.4211 : 11/12/16 : Anything

You can get used to anything

yeah and that's the real scary thing

but here's the hope I want to bring

You can get fed up

with everything - too

And maybe in the

towering pledge

We'll drag it all back

from the ledge

and gain a century's

chance to hedge

or two

what

2.4210 : 11/11/16 : No May

No may

in this month

not merry

how

do you, well

not very

You took

the tower

room

and oh

I abhor

this vacuum

my words

could

never fill

and I spin

them

still

what

2.4209 : 11/10/16 : Little Crazy

little crazy

not just the times

the catalyst

and hark the chimes

but God it's

a delicate fish

and so much balanced

on every wish

what

2.4208 : 11/9/16 : Every Sheep

Not much left

iron church

the battery

close my eyes

while it all

gets scatter-y

half bagged

and half cooked

and oh how every sheep

got rooked

what

2.4207 : 11/8/16 : Called

Called it before

and I'll call it again

I love to call it

before the vote is in

call it joo joo

or a fat dumb hunch

You'll despair what to call it

while I eat your lunch

not even mad

this ain't the end

it's the start

the day my million got down

and started to get smart

what

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