2.5224 : 8/22/19 : Shut Down (The Experiment: 59/100)

I'd pay a fair price

for a shut down switch

because the inner voice

is well a bitch

and I am shooting

for a higher plane

above the grumbling crowd

above the stain

and I'd extend it

to society

the other-hate

passing for piety

failing the switch

I guess we sigh and fight

nobody said it

would be easy to be right

what

2.5223 : 8/21/19 : Favorites (The Experiment: 58/100)

What are your favorites?

Wrestle with that one

The old desert island

just a little fun

can you extend it

The pattern underneath

Some key just fit

get the medicine past your teeth

cure for the ailing heart

trapped between dwell and dare

assurance of the goal

food for the journey there

what

2.5222 : 8/20/19 : Sparks (The Experiment: 57/100)

Stand back and let me think

every once and a while

I'll create some sparks

I've got a serious puzzle to solve

it's not just wordplay

no time for larks

clench my fists, screw up my eyes

shake a little like

my tongue pokes out

Don't interrupt me don't make a sound

Don't break in to to ask me

What I'm thinking about

Putting it together the lock the light

the season the stone

a promise long deferred

keep searching somewhere a

lock a box

there is a treasure to balance

every loss incurred

what

2.5221 : 8/19/19 : Constraints (The Experiment: 56/100)

Try to see

The constraints as holy

That if I let down my guard

the angels won't roll me

down the negative

asymptote

into the swamp

waiting for the prehistoric

reptile to go chomp

what

2.5220 : 8/18/19 : Dark Sacrament (The Experiment: 55/100)

Dark sacrament

has to be at night

not exactly occult

just the absence of light

When I supplicate

it comes again never

at least once upon a time

seems you blessed that endeavor

Is it the root cause

of the bad vibes downstairs

will I ever leave it truly

this side of earthly cares

Once upon a time

it truly didn't exist

and oh if I could excise it

it really wouldn't be missed

what

2.5219 : 8/17/19 : Subject of Goals (The Experiment: 54/100)

The subject of goals

shuttle between poles

assignments and roles

side eye burning coals

Oh really? Today?

Count all times you say

still back to the fray

From where? Oh, touché

turn off inspection

it's no resurrection

it's not a direction

no more introspection

what

2.5218 : 8/16/19 : Square (The Experiment: 53/100)

To fit in a square

Just aft the season

Only dispense with

the crutch of reason

what

2.5217 : 8/15/19 : Counter (The Experiment: 52/100)

Counter broke down

many moons ago

nobody read it

anyway and so

why continue

to count the beats

make an X

to mark defeats

never to be studied

or raise a question

Why make the beats at all?

the cruel suggestion

what

2.5216 : 8/14/19 : Uplift (The Experiment: 51/100)

Uplift so easily

conceived

but in reality

what energy - 

I believed

the universe was

filled

so the bad and worse

could be stilled

bite off that but that

presses the teeth

hold on to what that

beckons belief

what

2.5215 : 8/13/19 : Inaction (The Experiment: 50/100)

Regarding inaction

You'd think I'd teach

the master class

Lost in translation

And how so little

came to pass

Oh if I could

skate words over

meaning heedless like

a one would

An alter ego who

up and left that day

heedless of

stability

and the road untaken

California way

what

2.5214 : 8/12/19 : Digits (The Experiment: 49/100)

wrong side of the

single digits

if I can't come up

with something nice

to hell with

all you idjits

And I can't wait

for the other shoe

to cut me lose

from caring

I couldn't

make it matter so

Whatever use

was there in daring?

what

2.5213 : 8/11/19 : Kind Visitation (The Experiment: 48/100)

Kind visitation

Can I leave it at that?

no revelation

just a friendly cat

read nothing in it

no metaphor

time to wrap up this detour

whatever it was for

what

2.5212 : 8/10/19 : Again the Plot (The Experiment: 47/100)

Almost exciting

lost the plot so hard

been a long while

since I turned up this card

called it a sad precedent

Once a long while back

once again the plot

always coming back

what

2.5211 : 8/9/19 : Something Nice (The Experiment: 46/100)

If I can't say something

nice

how does that

go again?

do I make

something up

think they'll

notice when

I go quiet

never knowing when to start

or was that

where to start

Sure, be still

my heart

what

2.5210 : 8/8/19 : Blank (The Experiment: 45/100)

Drawing a blank

gets me thinking on

who has been transformed

and what about me

am I yet reformed

firmly fixed

in a supposed

power locus

could I sieze, direct it

If I just had focus

don't actually feel

like I've got much control

in need of rehabilitation

of my world weary soul

what

2.5209 : 8/7/19 : Kick (The Experiment: 44/100)

Kick right into it

ain't that the experiment

was the point to charge the night

work out where all that time went

Pushing halfway outcomes seems

to be it doesn't change a scrap

like big surprise like color me

oops lost my thread oh well oh snap

what

2.5208 : 8/6/19 : S.O.S. (The Experiment: 43/100)

Not a distress call

It's a slogan, y'all

You could say it rhymes

with Inflame Cold Grit

almost inspirational

the original

is not a bit

just another wave

of anxiety

blank, pessimistic

mundanity

the asylum is

a listing barge

All captains crazy

all crazy in charge

and the S.O.S.

is drowned in bleats

and most will go down

never left

their seats

what

2.5207 : 8/5/19 : One Place (The Experiment: 42/100)

Stay in one place

how goes the race

don't ask dad

this is not dew on my face

Easy to predict

the outcome of late

not much will change

in the disunited state

and sure every generation

thinks we hit the wall for real

but this latest round of chaos

has a different feel

or so I say

when I should be recreating

try to elevate the tone

in the next reiterating

what

2.5206 : 8/4/19 : Management (The Experiment: 41/100)

Sure not a fan of

their management today

save it, slappy

I know just what you're gonna say

I don't occupy eternity

the long view's not my luxury

If They can't make it work

here and now Their deal's spiritual usury

And I know your answers too

across the other aisle

and I know how I look

slumping this moron's mile

Guess I deserve to be

judged by the company I keep

let both sides think what they will

Like, I know talk is cheap

what

2.5205 : 8/3/19 : Wildflower (The Experiment: 40/100)

Say wildflower

like there's

any other kind

I'd like to mirror

you in my mind

just

nod at the sun

Seems the only

way forward is

to sever every grasp

bob wind-free

where I want to clasp

and see

there really is no one

what

2.5204 : 8/2/19 : Receptive (The Experiment: 39/100)

North facing window

soon see snow

seems impossible right now

and that's exactly

how things go

trying to get online

tuned in

receptive

try to turn off

the stream of invective

that always turns inward

always impedes

I know what I have

to do

but man I'm lost in the reeds

what

2.5203 : 8/1/19 : ABUNDANCE (The Experiment: 38/100)

Now to the anxious dreams

the opposite of abundance

I'm tired of the show

you know it's not a fun dance

I can't keep up the principle

no scarcity no striving

inside a nervous grasping

fears the future's new arriving

see it as the burden of

the day, no real condition

try to stand up straight and say

Still present for the mission

what