2.211 : 11/30/05 : Unfinished

Unfinished business painting book
masterpieces half uncooked
Striving for completion
tempted by deletion
got there but what a toll it took
You can’t tell me this ain’t progress
You can’t so I’ll just say God bless
And stick another dismount
Try to pretend I’ve lost count
Try to ignore the agony of abscess
I could say it will all change from now on
I could say forever now I’ve got my plow on
but all I got is magic beans
produced by magic elf machines
I worried they were not so smart
a thing to spend my cow on

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2.210 : 11/29/05 : Peril

Dangerous questions perilous thoughts
The most dangerous game
played with crosses and naughts
Look where mathematics got us
Who woulda thought trinity could be
So thoughtless
I smell peril it stinks in here
I smell danger I smell fear
I smell a rat something rotten
Scratching at the back of my mind
Something I’ve forgotten
I watch the news for secret signs
I wait for what tasks
the overlord assigns
I wait to go all the way crazy at last
for the signal
for the omen
for the ocean
for the blast

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2.209 : 11/28/05 : Profligate

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Such a dissipation
Such a shame
This maze of words without a name
Work made for hire
Work done for free
the work to carry meaning
to you from me
Profligate, it spills all over
It gets about a bit
it’s sure a rover
It’s got six shots a week it’s a revolver
Still dreaming that one extra push
is going to solve her
God forgive me profligacy
I only ever wanted to be free
Instead again it backed me right in
to a corner
dodging the tomatoes of each
passing scorner

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2.208 : 11/27/05 : Prolific

There’s a lot of it a lot of it
a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot of it
Can’t always vouch for the quality though
You ought to know
you’re always telling me so
What can be said it’s not a full time job
just a modest graph
of the spaces between
waiting in the dark
for dark lord Psyche
for muse or inspiration
for our faces to come clean
It’s prolific you can’t deny that
ready to enforce it with a baseball bat
ready to lay down
another and another
Till a lot becomes more
Till I figure out why I think
it’s worth the bother

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2.207 : 11/26/05 : Mind’s Eye

The world I see in my mind’s eye is
Nothing but a chaos haze of interactions
Every cup of coffee is a little crisis
The endless reflections of the endless refractions
It’s a point source in theory but the point is massive
So theory doesn’t cut it but the sun still rises
And if my take on it seems still and passive
I’m just a little glazed by non-stop surmises
I’m hypnotized by the process behind every product
I’m overwhelmed by all the stuff so plastic
Still I’m miles away from sorting out my conduct
And every plan that I concoct just seems so drastic
Would it be better to close my mind’s eye
if such a thing could ever be achieved
For a while yet I guess I’ll have to try
till the man in the back finally says I can leave

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2.206 : 11/25/05 : Elementarium

In the elemenatarium
creation’s crucible aquarium
fire and water and earth and air
they can’t see you don’t be afraid to stare
steam and lava
plasma too
fog and mud
it’s all true
Dust devils
Smoke angels
Perfect cosmology
We’ve tested all the angles
And now will shake down
every combination
the new man will be born
of the new creation

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2.205 : 11/24/05 : Pop Cult Resurrection

Pop cult resurrection
hear my
harsh inflection
The bastard son of the mother tongue
but I gotta use the voice I got like anyone
Televised revolutionary
I fear the movement has grown stationary
There’s a hella lotta mess on that stone
And the depth of our sleeping
has only grown
Hopped up electric messiah
Age of Aquarius passed right by ya
And everything they said would happen
Came to pass
their only mistake
was thinking it would last

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2.204 : 11/23/05 : Cross the Water

Cross the water fisherman oh fisher go across
the fish you seek are over there
the bounty of the lost
As a result of map-makers’ error
Your boat is gonna be a holy terror
When you
Cross the water cross the water
cross the water fisherman
throw your net over the side
then lift it if you can
A bounty of a thousand thousand
every kind the mind can
understand
And then some
fisher come

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2.203 : 11/22/05 : Dwelling

Exist: persist
remain aloof while still within
Reflect: inject
I’m almost ready to begin
what if nothing really ever changes from now on?
I had a dwelling once
but now that place is gone
Predicate: masturbate
the universe abused itself
Undermine: disincline
You shoulda listened to someone else
All the things we dwelt upon
we dwelt in altogether
Ever scrap and spell we lashed
to try to keep out of the weather
Instill: fulfill
transcend: contend
command: pound sand
foretell: indwell

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2.202 : 11/21/05 : Consequently then perfection

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Consequently then
perfection is no more than
to say: this is so

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2.201 : 11/20/05 : Momentary

Momentary loss,
Yet all value will persist
Today, forever

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2.200 : 11/19/05 : 3 Haiku

How the path is found:
3 haiku each more perfect
than the one before

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2.199 : 11/18/05 : Trailblazer

Once upon a battered clock
Somewhere between tick and tock
the road untraveled’s start defined
who will blaze the trackless trail
go where all before did fail
and just what will they find
Hey hey trailblazer
She didn’t allow the weird terrain to phase her
it’s no profession for a navel gazer
the likes of me can only sit back and praise her
and who can say she’s not out there still
I stayed home with my page and quill
One day the correspondence ceased
each day the weight of silence increased
Hey trailblazer you still on the track
For those who wait and serve by standing back

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2.198 : 11/17/05 : Basalt

Is this bedrock far enough down
do I have to make it in this town
is this the answer? is this the mission?
is this the moment of great decision
it seems a lot like all the rest
probably get a solid C on the test
and end up in the stupid person’s club
the sad little bottle said glub glub glub
And that was all the basalt I could bear to mine
trying to build a fortress against the slow decline

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2.197 : 11/16/05 : Pentagram

In the pentagram
I dropped a centigram of the blood
of a child-stealing jackal
you know that raised her hackles
Yes but
I didn’t notice or care
I killed a cock
and a piebald goat
it’s worse than it sounds
hear what comes out of my throat
It’s all just a metaphor
For everyone stuck on this boat
trying to be a voodoo child
I got no secrets
I got no spells
I got no incantations
and it’s probably just as well
this superbly tempered pentagram
is forged in salt
And I probably cannot deny
it’s all my fault

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2.196 : 11/15/05 : Once Fool

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Fool me once
shame the fool
won’t get fooled again
Says the fool
We got fooled by indifference
we got fooled by vice
Only a fool would argue
it ain’t happened more than twice
Once fool twice dupe
third time’s a charm
the depths we’ll stoop
It’ll stop being a cycle
when we stop being fools
Stop ignoring reason
Stop obeying the rules

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2.195 : 11/14/05 : The Eighth Time Get Up

Get up get up get up get up
get up get up get up get -
Down
The eighth time
get up
I know this thing seems like a set up
But get up anyway
Hey
It’s the new day
And he said
What a bunch of trumped up nothing
You said you were working but I saw you sloughing
I’m not impressed by the dog and pony
I’m not about to eat that stack of baloney
So I knocked him down but he got back up
I smacked him on the temple with a half full cup
I kicked his legs out he got up a third time
I pushed him over just to make the words rhyme
I took the sucker on on in fisticuffs
Got up a sixth time when I called his bluffs
I pulled the rug right out from under him
He got up a seventh time so I hit him again

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2.194 : 11/13/05 : Psychonaut

It all spins down in a deep spiral
DNA, the mimetic viral
landscape topography
metaphysical geography
observation transformation
creation’s hagiography
Psychonaut how far you getting shot
into the undiscovered country of thought
Integral tautology
empathic eschatology
after all these years deserve at least an apology
what should we expect to find
behind the character of mind
only the psychonaut knows
the place that only his kind goes
And yet it’s said the same wind blows

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2.193 : 11/12/05 : Will

If rules exist it seems that this
perception of free choice must be
a sad illusion of self-reference
deluded by the word free
Pain exists pleasure exists
compulsion in a thousand forms
How sweet to think that we’ve got options
And will to navigate the storm
I’m not saying I don’t believe in it
but the possibility must be thought about
that the whole system’s just blind chance
that there is nothing that we’ve brought about
And we’re no more than schools of fish
darting with the mindless mass
that one day in some storm we can’t control
the whole of humankind will pass

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2.192 : 11/11/05 : The Cover Up

Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies
Flies swarm from your mouths
Brass glitters in your eyes
From day one the cover up began
From here it seems we still don’t understand
What is the function of the ruling class
Telling you be thankful
for your half full glass
And if this is the height of man
I think I’ll pass
All the lies that we debate now
will get swallowed up in the
cover up somehow
in ages to come
And even the best think to themselves
They better get some
Before the next collapse
And so we all end up saps

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2.191 : 11/10/05 : Moments

Moments grow like leaves on trees
A thousand million simultaneously
They have their sun time strong and green
That passes never to come again
Their colors fade to gold and red
green life gives way to past and dead
and in the mind of endless time
they drift and swirl a dance sublime
You cannot hold a single one
past when their sunny season’s done
Ours is just to watch their day
their bud and growth and fade away
and soft descent to join the rest
and to this truth I do attest
that we like moments, we like leaves
have got no last tricks up our sleeves
we each one have our appointed hour
though we defy or run or cower
still when it strikes we too each fall
and join the drift in silence, all

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2.190 : 11/9/05 : Taste

Well if you’re gonna break down
the brand new taste
be prepared to end up with
egg on your face
because you gotta break a few
a few what? don’t ask
if you remember the tower
remember the masks
a house all of doors
a broken spine
tell you true I broke it down
with a lot of friends of mine
the fundamental particle
well now it’s just me
trying to decode the new taste
trying to define what is free

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2.189 : 11/8/05 : Strategy Guide

I think it’s better to muddle through
the long approach by way of
one thousand good-byes
I don’t need your secret passage
your cheat code or your
strategy guide
There’s so much more satisfaction
when you’ve settled every option
then reveal the one that clicks
The gap between a Rembrandt
and a paint by the numbers
That's the lesson I learned
playing Zelda in the Sticks

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2.188 : 11/7/05 : Critical

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Critical juncture critical mass
critical density of the boil on my ass
critical malfunction of the
critical function that joins it all
or would have in the critical conjunction
I wouldn’t dare expose it all to critical review
Because right now there’s no evidence
That it isn’t all just spew
And some goats’ milk give spider silk
like some trees give you apples
God help me I ooze this stuff out
when with the Lord I grapple

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2.187 : 11/6/05 : Marginal

If this seems a marginal accomplishment
another speech about how hard
the job I have to do is
Please excuse us
We are indisposed
Dumbstruck by the question you posed:
If the goal is to be goalless
what does motivation mean
Are you sure I’m not just
Some kind of
machine

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2.186 : 11/5/05 : Roll Reversal

I don’t want to levitate
or fly through the air
I just want a five second delay
For when I gotta stop myself
before I go there
I don’t want a time machine
or the power of mesmerism
Just give me a quick replay
just give me a prism
to split the difference
‘tween the lesser of two lesser evils
when I got to navigate the breaks
when the breach is narrow
and th’ observance has gone missing
let me redo
just a few of my mistakes
The roll reversal power
when the roll has gone against you
Otherwise I’ll have to muddle
through it like I’m prone to

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2.185 : 11/4/05 : The Track (Bonfire Night)

Get on get on
get on the track
that’s what every one was
tellin’ you all the way back
Don’t let your wheels
roam their own way
don’t give into fate
Lock your mag lev
on the main rail
Succumb to the steady state
First there was anarchy
then there was patriarchy
matriarchy
The ancestor gods
Then there was theocracy
then monarchy and aristocracy
and it would be hypocrisy
to say Guy didn’t talk to me
Some nights
Tellin’ me to blow the rails off
the track tonight

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2.184 : 11/3/05 : If You Really Have to Know

If you really have to know
Today was the day I let everything slide
I drew a line I numbered it five
succumbed one last time to that old jive
And if you asked and I didn’t tell you so
Six years three days to the day just so
Now I’ll tell you
If you really have to know
Time is an illusion it doesn’t
really matter
You can think about it till your brain’s in tatters
You can think about it all live long day
this too this too shall pass away
I wrote it down just to preserve
a record of the too many masters I served
On the way to try to pare it down to one
I sensed that my trial had just begun
the littlest sentry just would not sleep
I got my big last number
but the price was steep
I gave it one more minute, plunged into the fray
reminded that every single day was today

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2.183 : 11/2/05 : World of Words

I am lost in the world of words
what I wrote
and said
and read
and heard
It’s unquestionably real
but is it what it seems
and could the same be said
of our experience and dreams
but I’m given to believe
it’s a deceptive path
So many throw the baby out
and keep the dirty bath
Yet still I seem entranced by it
still I can’t seem to stop
I can’t escape that feeling if
I don’t write my skull will pop

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2.182 : 11/1/05 : So It Ends

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So it ends for just one day
This is all that I can say
There is only sleep and death
All else is just revolving
Still yet a month to set things right
Still yet it seems an end in sight
Another hangs on bated breath
Try to see what I’m solving
Here’s a thought to wake up to
believing something doesn’t make it true
But belief goes on it seems
And each day comes regardless
And so it ends begins or pauses
the small print in your escape clauses
warns in sleep may come such dreams
warns of softness warns of hardness

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