2.5161 : 6/20/19 : Deck

Got a full deck

two jokers

and a list

of hands

let me speak up

so they'll hear me

in the back of

the stands

I'll only shuffle

for a minute more

the start

to deal

you cut is

coming

ante up

big wheel

what

2.5160 : 6/19/19 : Heave Ho

Time for the

heave ho

for many mockers

for those about

to salute

blow off

the rockers

and get on

with simplification

frugality

consolidation

what

2.5159 : 6/18/19 : Superstructure

Build a

superstructure

build an
infrastructure

a lot more work

and in it for

a long time

the plan's

Still rickety

plotted

insufficiently

ear still at

the wall

waiting on the

key chime

what

2.5158 : 6/17/19 : Props

Do it with props

run till it pops

running around

track down the sound

I don't like

the pattern

so I'll

simply change

somewhere round

the 7 year bend

it sure got strange

and I guess I've

recovered

but a darkness

persists

and the

offramp is

hidden in the mists

what

way back along

And that wraps up the Songs of Days volume 2.24: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? We'll just move it right along to Volume 2.25, entitled Such Stuff As Dreams.

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2.5157 : 6/16/19 : One Foot Out the Door

I threw it out

wayback along

not to say

it was ever not wrong

nobody had

to give me the talk

when do I get to walk

one foot out the door

one in the bear trap

I was sleep walking

never heard the snap

stationary target

easy to knock me down a peg

but I might just get along

Once I gnaw off that leg

what

2.5156 : 6/15/19 : Time Has Passed

Time has passed

that's something

holy hell

it's galling

if I cared

I'd be livid

the contrast baby

it's vivid

what

2.5155 : 6/14/19 : So Hard

This shouldn't be so hard

straighten up lay a card

get in the slim percent

where all the gurus went

where all the swamis fled

all canon in your head

Old enough now to calcify

I hope as a stand up guy

So hard to ignore the news

Go dark while the dark age brews

 

2.5154 : 6/13/19 : Shut It

I should know better

I should shut it

be a go getter

when it gets tough

gut it

just be a winner

stop complaining

stop protesting

stop explaining

what

2.5153 : 6/12/19 : The Gateway

The gateway of

everything that ever was

trips so lightly

off the tongue

really we're

in a deep well

at the far end

a sparse bead strung

is this a saga

or a tuba solo

incompetently played

by a dumb fool

would you really want to

Call up the gateway

probably wipe me out

but hey it will look cool

what

2.5152 : 6/11/19 : Disturb

Hilarious

do I dare disturb

like the universe

would notice

me kicking the curb

hanging

griping

nothing but talk

should only meditate

and take a walk

watch the plate and fork

mind the refurb

and don't bother to worry

what I might disturb

what

2.5151 : 6/10/19 : Cobble

Call halt

due to time

spent cobbling

story of decades

in theory I'm hobbling

to some finish

better left

undescribed

some unlabeled

potion

better left unimbibed

what

2.5150 : 6/9/19 : Placebo

Take the placebo

guessing the affliction

is mostly in the mind

like anxiety, addiction

like mortal fear

the apprehension to save

a world unaware of me

Why rant why rave

just take the placebo

and get at the task

well it feels real enough

if you have to ask

what

2.5149 : 6/8/19 : Pack

Comes the pack

well I remember

little enough

left of that ember

is it the fine source

I need to tap

and if I can't get there

guess it gets built from scrap

what

2.5148 : 6/7/19 : Regimen

Seven and

seventy

days of regimen

the heavy

the plod

the real time

by god

by gosh

and by gut

the lean

past

the glut

what

2.5147 : 6/6/19 : Hobby

Forget importance

pick up a hobby

since we're all cooling

our heels in this lobby

wait for the call up

must be a next rank

something smells off bro

not much in the tank

what

2.5146 : 6/5/19 : Productivity

Forget myself

in minor

productivity

pretend there is

some aim to this

proclivity

run it all

over on a loop

forget it

this thought

flew the coop

what

2.5145 : 6/4/19 : Crank

Sure I'm a

crank

well I

want one

to turn it

up

well I'm

a blunt one

look from

here

the scene

spells doom

Somewhere

in the clockwork

hope like hell

some spark

goes boom

what

2.5144 : 6/3/19 : Story

Because the thing

doesn't work

like a story

probably the future

is going to

get gory

maybe knock

my little perch out

oh well

make a channel

and get the merch out

either let me

forget it

and get on sinking

like the rest

or show me the

damn arena

and unleash the test

what

2.5143 : 6/2/19 : Stunt

Pure stunt

got nothing sincere

something

with nothing

So me

so here

that memory trip

at two removes

is giving me

the grippe

don't wake me

from the depths

again

and I'll try

not to slip

what

2.5142 : 6/1/19 : Abstraction

Abstraction

Aspiration

Consternation

This routine

Want to

beat the cycle

it's so tough

and mean

I try so hard

to conceive

a real

alternative

can I even

stand to say

I've got

something to give

what