2.5231 : 8/29/19 : Gift (The Experiment: 66/100)

Up early

and tossing at night

want to rush

but I'm cautious

got to get it right

the perfect offering

to You I would uplift

just as soon

as I discover

my gift

maybe you struggle

as others say

so hard to choose for me

hey it's okay

but I sure wish

you'd quell the

pining in my heart

and if there's anything

more

I sure wish

it would start

what

2.5175 : 7/4/19 : Freedom (The Experiment: 10/100)

243

could choosing be

the opposite of

freedom

good lord

sure sounds dumb

each choice

a lock

potential

stumbling block

is mere chaos

the alternative

I can't make sense

of how we live

what

2.5066 : 3/17/19 : Compromised

Everything gets

compromised

nothing comes through

clean

feel responsible

for every choice

feel bad and mean

Worry about people

I can't help

can't fix my own

shit

just bleat and yelp

Couldn't you just

let me off every hook

If I promised

to do every

last minute by the book

what

2.4712 : 3/28/18 : Prior Restraint

Fake choice

through prior restraint

might actually 

get me there someday

but there I ain't

today

I guess the

proof is in the pudding

this one's

thick Yorkshire dough

But I still got

tremendous doubt

it's going to be enough though

what

2.4609 : 12/15/17 : Old Time Hokum

Nothing much real

on the big screen these days

Feels like the fantasy is darker

just a cartoon anyway

Guess it's just the new time

version of the old time hokum

the bad boys grin and grimace

well they got 'em so they smoke 'em

and it aways wraps up

in lots of the flashy booms

but me I like the moody

interludes in quiet tombs

and facts that add up

choices that matter

Get drowned in the hokum

that's all hit and splatter

what

2.4357 : 4/7/17 : If At Long Last

If not a vision

if not a voice

if not a riddle

or exactly a choice

If not in books

or ritual

the long project

or the practice habitual

If at long last

not a gift of persistence

then I'm out of ideas

but on goes existence

what

2.4317 : 2/26/17 : Many Hours Later

Many hours later

Still silent,

seeking sign

dark dreams

and an hour I still malign

I will ask for help

Seeking the Voice

that comes after the fire

and before the choice

between a silence

none dare describe

nevermore deny the cup

I demanded to imbibe

not knowing is no excuse

anyway you can't

the truth the many

hours bought

now so I came at it

aslant

what

2.4206 : 11/7/16 : What Will the Future Think

What will the future think

of our little contest

You know I think they'll have

forgotten all about this mess

a bump in one long smear

of shallow drifting waste

hell if they'l mark at all

one sticky lump in the paste

like Rocky said about

water in a black cup

we afford the past no sense of choice

and then I drank it all up

what

2.4143 : 9/5/16 : Labor Day

No end of labor

whether or no paid

stop acting like

it's anything but choices made

the doctrine of whatever

Comes to this hand

or the other

whether or no planned

giving thanks

for any chance to point it right

giving thanks for labor

day and into night

what

2.4121 : 8/14/16 : Ache

Disinclined to fight through

to write through the ache

factor of aging

bad choices, rack

countless other maybes

add up to quite a stack

and I pulled hella duty

so I won't apologize

and I have to move it on

leave the ache where it lies

what

2.4108 : 8/1/16 : Glum

Swing a little glum

nothing novel

bad tum

iffy choices vice

always rely

on paying the price

put a little skin in

the game

say your piece

sign your name

Leave the rest to

oh I don't know

hope the name's

not a no-show

what

2.4096 : 7/20/16 : Clouds of Witness

Clouds or witness

or is it witness

of the cloudy

See or obscure

if obvious

choices aren't too loud

deter defer

feel I've earned it if it matters

in the face of most

reasoned thinking

such dissembling shatters

what

2.4056 : 6/10/16 : Accept

Accept this descent

like a great soft hand

no idea

where this strange ship

will land

what will I choose

next to carry

what to drop

what to bury

lack of coherence

well the drought's been long

and I feel a million miles

lost from the tower of song

what

2.3905 : 1/11/16 : WARE

Only way out

is up

like I ever had

a choice

the cup

it's just the play

now so

You may say

You couldn't guess

my no

my yes

perfection hidden

in uncertainty

have you had

enough this gas

inanity

could holler

Shut up instead

You'll find me 'ware

When you come cut up

my thread

what

2.3868: 12/05/15 : Complete Surrender

Complete surrender

before you

smash up anymore of

my toys

getting pointed now

trashing options

choice by choice

guess I better

keep the day job

guess I better

blast harden the smile

and give up asking

all I ever get's

another mile

what

2.3855: 11/22/15 : What's Inside

Death cults seek signs

of weakness or strength

life junkies only know

how to measure length

And me I'm going to find

something new to talk about

try not to come off as clever

or especially devout

but what oh what oh

what is that?

my breakfast choice

my style of hat

a world's weight turns

and I just ride

And sick of showing

what's inside

what

2.3852: 11/19/15 : Stripes

No choice but to

steal nectar as the whip cracks

the curse of

this dimension

get no take backs

So I will stride

this path I’m thrown to

like I mean it

and I own to

Re-up

dig in

and earn me some more stripes

leave a battered corpse

for all you

stone hypes

what

2.3849: 11/16/15 : 24 Rematch

Another 24 Rematch

this time

real scratch

I will hear

the Voice

I will swallow whole

a true choice

what

2.3816 : 10/14/15 : No Portents

No charm

no portents in evidence

read a mind

no blind

or shackled

obedience

so by choice

yet what value

If I knew

hell

I'd just tell you

what

2.3780 : 9/8/15 : Some Other

Hell how I need

the some other

you know I told

You twice brother

other topic

other voice

new rising ground

fast early choice

Some other face

in morning's mirror

a lighter glass

in it clearer

what