2.2830 : 01/31/13 : Beautiful Things

For a minute my mind
was filled with beautiful things
I didn't hold onto it
and that plumb always swings
hold still hold still
bring to rest straight down
resist the urge to vent my extreme
humors on this town

what

2.2829 : 01/30/13 : Nothing Nice

Nothing nice
to talk about
no nice trips
no going out
cold as hell
and no good plans
no spirit guides
no superfans
and sick as hell
of this same old
and no surprise
after the fold

what

2.2828 : 01/29/13 : From Within

From within
the radiant
peeling back
your wax shell
on a gradient
the metamorphosis
proceeds
how differs this from
transformation?
ends ways and heeds
the paradox that
simply everything
must be ordained
proceeding from within
reverent
and unrestrained

what

2.2827 : 01/28/13 : How Do We Begin Again

How do we
begin again
it's the best question
since original sin
the question of that story
is where did you go
the real twist
they all missed
is even God didn't know
the moment we hide
from the truth
is the beginning of the end
of sweet brief days
of paradise
and since that ship sailed 'round
that bend
we have to begin again
do it a hundred times a day
the trick to how is dull as dirt
and just might
steal your breath away

what

2.2826 : 01/27/13 : Sickness

the sickness
hit again
could not
get it in
I said that
it was done
will this time
be the one
I doubt it
but I have to
act the part
it makes me laugh, too

what

2.2825 : 01/26/13 : Advantage

Take advantage of the moment
also it beats thinking
hey at least I'm not smoking
hey at least I'm not drinking
Hey I don't know what I'm doing
Or what fate might be imbuing
and I don't feel like
the advantage is mine
and you told me to live in it
well sure for you that sounds fine
But I have been taken advantage of
by my short sighted ways
but in absence of a better plan
I guess this odd duck stays

what

2.2824 : 01/25/13 : Building

I've got a jones to get building
but get tangled in the run up
if this were a movie
or a video game (hah)
why I'd just get my gun up
and shoot my way
through the obstacles
Shoot my way through the choices
so much better than working things out
and hearing all the voices
you may say that's no way for building
you have to choose and take your pick
I'll say whoa look out behind you
then shoot right through your rhetoric
but I've got no gun and it's true
You must choose what's too be built
but you still need bricks and mortar
and they charge you to the hilt
and if you don't have the coin to pay
you won't build anything
but same old castles in the air
at my age that's worse than nothing

what

2.2823 : 01/24/13 : Breaker

Here take the breaker
of this string
of my neglecting
the resting
and the silence
but oh never the reflecting
disbelieving
in the journey
of the partisans and spies
sad about
my sad companion
in it myself
up to my eyes

what

2.2822 : 01/23/13 : Heroes

Can I get a ride from someone
on my hero's journey
I can help out with gas
I you want to burn one I
can probably score a little
I don't really do it anymore
but I've really got to get
to what I've got in store
Old Jung said that I was stuck
still refusing to grow up
and the only cure is work
well what about instead to blow up
I'd be thrilled to bow my head
I'll take any work you give me
let the journey be within
destination be to live free

what

2.2821 : 01/22/13 : Waiting for Life

Waiting for his
life to begin
no ship coming
no escape for him
he is no writer
but he dreams all day
and what do
these strange pictures say
sure there's still
 a lot to see
but he's got
responsibility
and he's not
waiting anymore
but he didn't
close the door

what

2.2820 : 01/21/13 : Freeze

I wish I could
distill this freeze
I'd stop all murders
you don't have to say please
freeze the injustice
freeze all wars
freeze out fear
and bring everyone
indoors

what

2.2819 : 01/20/13 : Don't Remember

The thing about forgetting
is you don't remember
I can't wait around this time
for next December
I can't wait a minute
Not one holiday
it has to be this moment
though there's no one
to hear what I say

what

2.2818 : 01/19/13 : Surrender

Between surrender
and war
here's what
the fighting was for:
invisible lines
and compulsions
enthrone irrational
revulsions
I'll pick up the dice
and take what comes
a surrender flag
or war drums

what

2.2817 : 01/18/13 : Slop

I'll just sling some slop out
for the pig of my ambition
well and far beyond the point of
feeling I am on a mission
no it seems more a random walk
engaged in by a drunken crab
and bad enough the every day
the runaround, the daub and drab
paste on my imaginary
empire of almighty text
It shouldn't be a task for you
to see how it is I am vexed
and waiting for the next insult
and waiting for the axe to chop
and while I wait dear pig of mine
I'll sling another cup of slop

what

2.2816 : 01/17/13 : Crunch

Cannot get this
tension out
this muscle clench
this crunch
or shake this
bloody feeling
that I played
a rotten hunch
this sickness
it is anxious fear
anger, envy
torpid lust
don't ask me about
it's object right now
any prick
could pierce this crust

what

2.2815 : 01/16/13 : Respite

To hell with it
I'll take my respite
won't state the resolve
or try to test it
every so often
you get a thing done
have a little rest boy
have a little fun

what

2.2814 : 01/15/13 : Drone

When it comes around
years from now
jut slap on a drone
and take another bow
if this is the new sound
God strike me deaf
and pinion my wretched body
on the treble clef

what

2.2813 : 01/14/13 : Rot

The stress pouring in
from where it should not
do the right thing
what's that?
what rot!
by rot I mean bull
by bull I mean shit
sorry about the children
but someone better say it
I'm going to give up
truly pretty soon
I've got a thirty month
appointment
to howl at the moon

what

2.2812 : 01/13/13 : Teenage Century

And you know it was ugly
almost right from the start
and sure I was dirty
sure I played my part
and we'll reap this wind a
long long time evidently
apparent to all but the most obtuse
here at the dawn of this
teenage century
it's getting surly
getting secretive and quiet
well it's never been happy
it's always been violent
if it's an awkward phase well
we may not recover
grim signs and omens
in the fog and filthy air, Lover
said these days weren't
meant for me
but I ended up regardless
in this teenage century

what

2.2811 : 01/12/13 : Leech

Did I strike distraction
the fatal blow
doubtful sure and if I did
how would I know
but if I did
then oh what then
what might I reach
will it make a real difference
will it stem
this dreadful leech
past the point of buying
things will have to change
let the devil ring his course
the future to estrange

what