2.5195 : 7/24/19 : BIG RED X (The Experiment: 30/100)

I joke about it

what I secretly cling to

I will mark the big red X

and surprisingly bring you

the perfect from now on

the smooth ascent

and that's not even my song

and by noon it's well bent

only to stop

this litany of nonsense

the dumb inner voice

what passes for the present tense

the poetic passage

of an age of regret

X marks the zero start

how long oh Lord oh please reset

what

2.5194 : 7/23/19 : Distraction (The Experiment: 29/100)

I can claim distraction

quite reasonably

I can blame reaction

the treason of memory

when getting back to zero

sounds like shangri la

If I'm fiddling like Nero

better whip up this Ladida

what

2.5193 : 7/22/19 : Recognition (The Experiment: 28/100)

Things change

expect it or not

try to stand still

recognition hits the spot

been here before

and it's oh so hard

to flow with the change

focus on the next yard

what will be my token

Who will deliver

I'll drown you in my pleading

I'll cry you a river

what

2.5192 : 7/21/19 : Many Outliers (The Experiment: 27/100)

Does this fit the pattern?

already so many outliers

Try to buck up but oh Mama

could I run with the high fliers

used to call it early riser

same old time and same old place

gave up on the formalism

and oh hell this look on my face

I am dreaming of the pattern

but it will take working ahead

I am trying to see glory

but each time I'm feeling dread

this is the one but one

the only moment other present

I will join the new dominion

tell that president to get bent

what

2.5191 : 7/20/19 : Poison (The Experiment: 26/100)

Pick my poison

some things go way back

No grace or poise on

build up the stack

with another admonition

to ignore all prior timelines

Latest hymn to king attrition

scrapping coins to pay my rhyme fines

my inflation style syllabic

pick my poison see the trend

watch me pull my usual drab trick

drift lift spill mill wend

what

2.5190 : 7/19/19 : FIVE (The Experiment: 25/100)

Seen each card in this hand

So give me another five

Can't imagine much luck coming

but I have to try you understand

merely a hook where my hat's hung

what's left beyond to strive and strive

or mooch around this shill I'm slumming

look askance at my lute loose strung

remember the day of the green band?

for me three more to five

not going anywhere, alive

So pray keep wound this slender strand

what

2.5189 : 7/18/19 : Fun (The Experiment: 24/100)

Whatever fun I had in mind

forget about it

whatever plan

I thought I'd find

sincerely doubt it

looking too hard at

the mirror

wondering who

will crack first

and will some

new passage appear or

will the fun

unleash the smack burst

what

2.5188 : 7/17/19 : True Quill (The Experiment: 23/100)

You with the true quill

shouldn't condescend

to tell us hoipolloi

about our foolish dreams

and where the path

of striving ought to meet its end

look to your own fault

Shift your own eyebeams

Don't we know well enough

who's known and who's admiring

who makes a dark patch

in the shadows of the crowd

it's not your place to

critique our poor desiring

so zip it if we dare

to dream out loud

what