2.4691 : 3/07/18 : Snitch

I snitch

and ditch

the responsibility

man I want

no part of it

no this ain't me

deliver unto me

the diadem

I'm ready to rule

my own fate

and bring it hard to them

rise above these lowly

trolling scions of circumstance

finally

say hello to real me

and break free

from this stance

what

2.4682 : 2/26/18 : Fleetly

For once

Could I

just go with the flow

this circumstances

think I've earned it

you know

leave tough love

for another week

go easy

Flow fleetly

Your mild

little freak

quiet the voice

and do

little lightly

just the thought

leaves me

feeling more sprightly

what

2.4553: 10/20/17 : The Circumstances

Wish I could understand

the highs, the lows

Where the one comes from

Where the other one goes

I see the circumstances

don't quite explain

is it all upstairs

phantom illusions in my brain

wish I could start over

jettison so much

but the things I must hold onto

aren't so negotiable as such

same old riddle

twist around to what now

pray for better circumstances

might even get around to now

what

2.3258 : 4/4/14 : Crowned

Under the circumstances

I should be crowned

I should be knighted

and well renowned

this is no coddle

for the creative heart

and yet I persist

and each day new start

Oh I know no guarantee

Oh I know its own reward

is it my comeuppance for some future life

hanging hoisted on my own petard

give me faith to believe

just for a single week

give me to hold on one more year

draw the veil and grant me just a peek

and I will go

wherever you might say

swear to me just swear to me

I'll get there by this May

what

2.3235 : 3/12/14 : You Need Dark to Show Light (TWoB 3/11)

Said you need dark

to show light

You know that one

kept me up all night

Sounds like an excuse

like a riddle for a fool

Sounds like a copout

Yet it still sounds true

evil isn't good

black isn't white

Even so you need dark

to show light

Someday to understand

how it all works through and through

given the circumstances

I suppose you really do

what

2.3062 : 09/20/13 : The Rug

So you pull the rug out

again?

I'm so used to it

I stand trotting

So my heart feels

like it's getting squeezed

my gut feels like

it's rotting

So it's me

and circumstance

face to face

hand to hand

I'm so good at

never giving up

this latest twist

finds me quite bland

what

2.3005 : 07/25/13 : Jack of All Trades

I'll be your jack of all trades

sure I could do that

I'd rather be my own but

I guess I blew that

Well did they like what they saw

not my finest hour

Well hey I don't really want it

my these grapes are sour

always wanted to be the type

who mastered a single art

back to the jack of all trades

is that my destined part

there is no destiny

only circumstance and choice

may get me 8 to 5

you never get my real voice

101 Curious Professions 50: Jack of All Trades

what

2.2729 : 10/22/12 : Of Good and Evil

Of good and evil
recent days taught me a lot
but the cost of that great knowledge
is both heavy and hot
You can't just get around
disliking your own self so much
I used to slide around the sticking point
but these days I've lost my touch
maybe we all just
go along and each day grimmer
as we get to know the human race
its prospects just seem dimmer
as we get to know ourselves
good and evil seem like luck
the chance of birth of circumstances
chance you had the time to duck

what

2.2683 : 9/6/12 : What I Pine For

Why can't I get behind
the comfort the relief
of unexamined faith
of purely blind belief
my brainy version's
never going to catch on
ever present doubts
scabs for the mind
to scratch on
Whatever could qualify
as a real turning point
Some twisting in my heart
Some pressure in my joint
Some outside circumstance
in secret what I pine for
wishing to believe in purpose
if faith for what mine's for

what

2.2546 : 4/22/12 : Place Names (Mt. Metaphor 15/58)

Billings to Bozeman
can't neglect the big towns
now it seems
to just be writing
place names down
haven't really been anywhere
in so long
anything I might think I remember
is wrong
name the place
your circumstances
indulge me in the memory
of all my romances
Not getting that in Bozeman
not Billings neither
don't know the name
don't know the name
or place of where
or what could bring me either

what

2.2228 : 06/09/11 : Control

How things roll
not slightly in control
and envying another's
set of circumstances
well that's just the way
to miss your own chances
however bad or good
always try to optimize
always hoping for a nice surprise
whether I write it down
or let it pass me by
or just think inside my head
tomorrow once again I'll try
to do what I should

what

2.2120 : 02/21/11 : Dying

Dying for
no I won't say it
and not really dying
well depending how you play it
we are all on the spiral
but it doesn't seem to be now
and it's nothing to do with
what I thought of anyhow
When your heart isn't in it
when it's all circumstantial
and what I've got at the table
seems so weak and insubstantial
are we dying for
a reason or just physics
tonight I've got a suspicion
but I'm too light on specifics

what

2.2005 : 10/29/2010 : Simple

Simple it's all so very simple
not a wrinkle of doubt or hesitance
so as to why it took so long or is
taking so long it must come down to circumstance
to do this and to not do that
it doesn't take a genius to plan
so some start immediately
but I'm not such a simple man
little turns out as  I wish it
always better in my thoughts before
but that can't be allowed an impediment
I've got what I've got and simply nothing more
maybe never enough maybe never quite good
maybe simple and plain like an unworked band
but I can't deny I see a glimpse of something higher
it has all unfolded just as I planned

what

2.1953 : 9/07/10 : Urgency

This illusion of urgency
that comes with being human
and all the lists and circumstances
we be exhuming
it's a tale I guess
but it seems pretty stupid
pouring one remedy down
after another
I swear to God
we'll hit the right one brother
and find at last
our perfect cupid
draw back the bow let arrow fly
we won't get provoked to ask why
we'll see that bastard
hit its target
and when we're rich and fat
content with our lot
we won't question a single
minute that we've got
fuck you jack
We know we are set

what

2.1447 : 4/19/09 : The Natural

Can this be the natural

outcome of blind circumstances

can this sick suboptimal

world be the sum of all our chances

feel like something’s out to get me

Well you say I’m paranoid

Haven’t you noticed every man or woman

that’s ever been has finally been destroyed

I do my best to reconcile this world with God

you chalk it all up to the natural world

I don’t see the difference as all that vast

despite all the venom that’s been hurled

Guess I could try for the lecture circuit

I bet I’d be a natural at that

but I’ve got some dim aspiration

to a higher calling so to you I tip my hat

what

2.1256 : 10/10/08 : Change

The slightest change

could be

the wingstroke of a

butterfly

I won’t fear hope

I’ll scorn the fear

that all around us

scatters by

cause and effect

aren’t simple things

who understands

all relevance

here’s life here’s hope

a small light

against dark

circumstance

what

2.1247 : 10/1/08 : Michael

I can’t seem to beat

those same old circumstances

itch gets in my feet

and kid just gots to dances

this could be the last

the last of one great journey

way back in the past

let me call my attorney

before I tell my story

of how I broke the cycle

jumped to the track of glory

steered by the angel Michael

what

2.692 : 3/26/07 : Your Life

Sometimes the sounds of necessity
drill into your head like pure anger
close eyes and count to infinity
drive the needle back from red danger
all the paths the switchback turnings
dodging the bullets and wielding the knife
tell yourself it’s all leading somewhere
tell yourself this is not your life
I get used to all the noise and static
the drone of endless vigilance
I get inured to the lost and erratic
random walk of circumstances
I put it all on this number, that one
it never amounted to much though
it always sounded like a plan would be fun
but I always broke down to touch and go
I should be happy with all I’m given
what pathetically passes for strife
but if it were you wouldn’t you like me
ache for there to be more to your life

what

2.565 : 11/19/06 : Circumstances

I went up to the church
but the church was closed
a circumstance not a sign
or so I supposed
I don’t blame it on the devil
or the media
or the societal attrition
that keeps bleeding ya
it’s just the circumstances
always coming up
like a bad card in a crooked deck
death between the crown and cup
I understand it’s a symbol of change
some earthly transition
I try hard to believe that
it foretells the transfer of my mission
but deep inside it feels
like just more disorganization
a failure to plan well ahead
a failure of information

what