2.3062 : 09/20/13 : The Rug

So you pull the rug out

again?

I'm so used to it

I stand trotting

So my heart feels

like it's getting squeezed

my gut feels like

it's rotting

So it's me

and circumstance

face to face

hand to hand

I'm so good at

never giving up

this latest twist

finds me quite bland

what

2.3061 : 09/19/13 : Next

I won't even do it

Next

I won't let you see me

Vexed

He's the type that gets what he

expects

this next sleight will leave him

perplexed

what

2.3060 : 09/18/13 : Back to Back

Problems march sideways

back to back

the little ones slip by

the big ones stack

acid eats the newsprint

the microfiche is failing

can't find a drive to read the bits

magnetically derailing

Yet they say they're keeping copies

of every damn thing

they say they're the good guys

but they wear those skull rings

And problems stacked on problems

make me feel so small

I'd like to turn a back on it

but I can't summon up the gall

what

2.3059 : 09/17/13 : Just What I Need

It could be a good thwarting

is just what I need

So despite my reporting

I should probably pay heed

to the messages of dreams

and idle thoughts' transits

Somewhere the seam gleams

but not how my heart plans it

Still the thing that I need

not in ego or wishing

Seeks the fix of my bead

until then I keep fishing

what

2.3058 : 09/16/13 : Artifacts

I can't tell if I'm getting sick

or only pining

All I know for sure is

everyone's sick of whining

So barring economic class insurgency

against the toffs

barring cryogenic

space voyage cruiser take-offs

with no possibility

of leaving here intact

I contemplate the lesson

of the artifacts

Somewhere along the wayback

lost the pressure on my chest

the good old hypochondriac

gave up, gave it a rest

the artifacts all cryptic

tell me nothing new

and I'm surely no world's savior

but I'll see my own

collection through

what

2.3057 : 09/15/13 : Work

At night you fret about

the end of days

Come light all you can

think about

is what pays

a hundred one months

past being any young turk

And there is much more

to life than work

feared pain and

unprincipled reaction

fear being forced into

ignominious retraction

the white horse's sighting

Surely slays shirk

because nothing can

fill a day like work

what

2.3056 : 09/14/13 : God Emperor of Rome

God Emperor of Carthage

God Emperor of Troy

We'll hit a few towns on the way back

What can I say I'm a growing boy

God Emperor of Dresden

God Emperor of Pompeii

Staring at a smoking mountain through dark shades

Wondering how it felt when the sky went away

God Emperor of Hiroshima

God Emperor of Detroit

You been mean and ugly for a long time

and no loopholes left to exploit

God Emperor of Babylon

God Emperor of Rome

The fire wasn't the end or beginning

It fell all the same and so will every home

God Emperor of Rome

God Emperor of Rome

Someday even the names

will disappear like foam

God Emperor of Rome

101 Curious Professions 101/101(fin): God Emperor

what

2.3055 : 09/13/13 : Story

Everyone with a story

lord how many billion

that's not to say a word

about the ghost cotillion

How do we ever get

a single thing done

You have to find a story

to share with everyone

am I naive

oh hey hell yes

am I a punk

still wanting to say yes

don't need fortune fame

homage or glory

just two feet of light

and an hour to tell the story

101 Curious Professions 100/101: Storyteller (II)

what

2.3054 : 09/12/13 : Drill In

Drill in Drill in

is it ever far enough

am I proving here today

that I have got the 

right stuff

Interested in a way

trying not to get hope up

bite the curses from my tongue

Vile I guess I better soap up

I am drilling all the day

I am drilling all the night

growing like an algal bloom

nodding like a paperwhite

101 Curious Professions 99/101: Driller

what

2.3053 : 09/11/13 : Manifest

Make manifest:

maybe time we figure out

that the lone fellow thinking it up

is not what change is about

Are there enough who can

see we don't know how

to open a channel to proceed

are we any closer now

we've had kings and philosophers

teachers and tribes

we've had glutton's banquets

of manifestos and

diatribes

ideology ain't nothing

but the gilt on

I've got mine jack

I've got no manifesto

and I think it's going to

have to be a sneak attack

101 Curious Professions 98/101: Manifesto Maker

what

2.3052 : 09/10/13 : Keep for a While

The day creeps up

on me for once

I guess it's

going

going

gone

the kids

they barely know it

So I'll pass it along

a day

I'll keep for

a while

You can't forget it all

but you can walk on

and smile

101 Curious Professions 96: Keeper of Days

what

2.3051 : 09/09/13 : The Other Early Riser

Part of me

like to be that guy

up before the sun

crafting fresh and fly

like baking bread

like casting a line

it sounds wholesome

it sounds real fine

I made jokes about

the other early riser

up in the single digits

but that weary

hour miser

got here not by getting up

but by not going

down

art imitates life

a bit much

or was it

the other way around?

101 Curious Professions 95: Early Riser

what

2.3050 : 09/08/13 : Professional

Did I sign up

to be the asshole in this

situation

I'm thinking

I just might

go pro with that

professional asshole

sounds like a vacation

sounds like

you might

know this hat

no need for kindness

no need for

understanding

What I got

You know

everybody's got one

while I'm undoing

undermining

underhanding

You all just

kiss my

big hot sun

101 Curious Professions 95: Lawyer? Politician? CEO?...

what

2.3049 : 09/07/13 : Start Fire

Got your friction

got your lens

got your flint

your steel

Start fire

to start the cleanse

I can't tell you

how I feel

You got matches

you got lighters

how you laugh

at my paltry blaze

I'll find my own crew

lovers not fighters

and you'll rue our conflagration

one of these days

101 Curious Professions 94: Firestarter

what

2.3048 : 09/06/13 : Sell it All

Will I be an ad man

sell it all

fossil fuels

the bomb

a bridge

the fall

it's the height

of creativity

in the twenty first

I'll sell you

sugar water

till you die of thirst

101 Curious Professions 93: Ad Man

what

2.3047 : 09/05/13 : Master

Master of the special

and the secret sauces

If your plan was to battle

better cut your losses

because there is no source

like the sauce I'm slinging

and my campaign is clear as glass

despite the mud you're slinging

master of the crane, the wild,

the free style

while you unpacked smack

I went another extra mile

You know just looking at me

is going to make you tired

the time you're on my level

I'll already be retired

101 Curious Professions 92: Sauce Master

what

2.3046 : 09/04/13 : Reprieve

The new

apprenticeship

end of this

era of

admin

and pink slips

I'm in line

and I'll believe in it

I plan to find

my reprieve in it

101 Curious Professions 91: Apprentice

what

2.3045 : 09/03/13 : Age of Adventure

Yeah he's the one

who'll cast up the bones

in the face of every

lazy reporter

who writes that men

no longer have the stones

for adventures of the old order

the day's coming, no -

the day's arrived

the beginning of all stories

it didn't look like much

and not all survived

to this age of adventure

borne on wings of stainless houris

101 Curious Professions 90: Adventurer

what

2.3044 : 09/02/13 : Once Upon a Time

What else can I

feeling a worm,

and no man - I

meditate upon

another day

I put my foot down

and the thing

went my way

I want tales and

adventure

not soliloquy

stark and vital

not ironic

or twee

Once upon a time

I hit on a way

to break out

pray for lightning

to strike twice

for my way

to shake out

101 Curious Professions 89: Storyteller

what

2.3043 : 09/01/13 : Better

I see so many things

I want to do better

am I delusional

a narcissist

living by routine's

sans serif letter

dreaming I'm some kind

of secret anarchist

but this time I need my

real A game

Is it in there anymore

or was it ever?

is it real potential

a battery, a flame

does it just need me to

name and throw the right lever?

no matter if it's time

if I merit the reward

I know at least one path

I for sure can do

I can fake it and

work very hard

hope that's better enough

to do right by you

101 Curious Professions 88: Player

what