2.4767 : 5/22/18 : On Point

Am I on point

i get so easily astray

The principle

of just a little

every day

seems to be losing

ground to entropy

another morning

dragged awake, dopey

if I can only

stick on a point

ready for striking

when time's the joint

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2.4694 : 3/10/18 : Deep Slack

Even in deep slack

I rack a stack

of little battles

versus entropy

and still feel

rust dulling my steel

considering what others face

can only sigh in empathy

this world's

got a mean streak

wide as the Mississippi

through both poles

and the equator

and the foolish debt

we've all run up

will surely hit

and sure will leave a crater

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2.4446 : 7/5/17 : A Lynchpin

The night excursions have

been bringing me down

Too much a lynchpin I guess

to the old town

the place loved but I'm sick

of my Em to Eff

between that and

anti-entropy

Few hours are left

envying every

evangelist for 

their superpowers

And in that

fantastic

contemplation

I lost way

too many

hours

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2.4345 : 3/26/17 : Bad Demand

As entropy

forever has the

upper hand

spend lives

dodging the

thumb of bad demand

To sum it up

in the lingua franca

a nicer way of saying

here comes the shitstorm

to tank ya

yet here I am

little engine saying

what now?

days not done

and I'm not

done dodging

I vow

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2.4231 : 12/2/16 : The Night Manager

Only civilization cares

I said it but it was a lie

because I care

and if you need someone

to manage your night

I might be passing by

the gremlin took my

meta mind

I had solid state back-up

take but a fire to mock me

entropy will always stack up

civilization

and I care

civilization

and I care

I won't get by

on the good old blank

stare

'cause next year

civilization

and I care

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2.4221 : 11/22/16 : Free World

Free world

don't squander it

free to roam

free to ponder it

entropy is real

best to fear it

talk of a free lunch

I won't hear it

here to enjoy

here to make a mark

here to start something

here to strike a spark

in our beautiful free world

watch the fires you start

better start acting like you mean it

better start acting smart

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2.4008 : 4/23/16 : Biggest Sword

Shake my stupid puny pointless fist

at King Entropy

Writing his hymn book for him

My own one true enemy

Reapers reap and scrapers scrape

Counters like me count up

bad seeds in my landscape

Today's fortune no guts no gusto

Only teacher waiting for me

Is Professor Bust-o

Back-paddle from that lesson

with all my strength

hoist up the mud-mixer's lot

sure, or any such length

Pursued no interest: so no talents

to lose for the Lord

Did you expect more from us

in the shadow of the biggest sword

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2.3137 : 12/04/13 : White Night

White knight

nobody wants you

saving anything here

hang up your golden helm

is that perfectly clear

I'm walking out

on the job of world saving

that nobody asks for

and of which I was incapable

I am micronized by the world

And the world is micronized by the cosmos

And the future is inescapable

How could I have known

that perspective has just grown

within the great cosmic stage

So vast it seems to swallow the light

On my speck while I slept

my hands down favorite

covalent bipolar elemental

learned geometry from entropy

and hidden in darkness

kissed my world

with a white night

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2.2745 : 11/07/12 : Other Game

Am I asking the right questions
am I on the right side
Am I foolishly spectating as
ill suited entropies elide
the feeling I can't shake
has two faces like a coin
bound always together but
the two can never truly join
But I see myself neither elevated
ranked in any great race
nor dragged int the heavy depths
having lost all worth and face
the answer's not somewhere between
it's some whole other game
Just need to learn the rules and
find the court and hand the judge my name

what

2.2718 : 10/11/12 : Material

Maybe the good just runs out
You ever thought about it?
The hole will take us all out
But guess who takes the first hit?
Your phone will not deliver
Cause you can't eat the ethereal
And I'd love to make anything
But I cannot stand the new material
What am I supposed to cut out of this black cloth?
How do I fly from the flame like an anti-moth
I never signed on
for a course in dystopia
but we're all getting one anyway
guess you'd call that entropy huh?
In my darkest mind
the streamers of black
wind up every jot and dittle
lash it all to the rack
pull every particle to pieces
in my fantasy imperial
Start from scratch with a batch
of the new material

what

2.2356 : 10/15/11 : Against Entropy

What's I'm up to tonight
with my engine against entropy
trying to shut it off with
wads of text and pictures pretty
seems when you get enough
of us together in one space
me might as well be random
particles colliding out in space
the protesters will disperse
and nothing will change change change
We'll keep heating up the planet
keep pushing out our dirty range
against entropy
we can't even manage to be nice
what's I'm up to tonight
daydreaming about paradise

what

2.2185 : 04/27/11 : An Answer

There might not be an answer
not to anything
nobody talks about it
it's got a nasty ring
slaves to entropy
and nothing lasts forever
we pretend that we can
escape these rules by being clever
if there isn't an answer
no perfect way
I guess I have to do my best
and be kind every day
I know it's not impressive
you don't want it on a shirt
but it doesn't seem unlikely
even though it's plain as dirt

what

2.2158 : 03/31/11 : Never Comes

Oh and the moment that never comes
trying to correct and complete the sums
only one topic that invites
the telling and retelling bites
and it's all part and parcel of the cost
wherein all hope of overcoming entropy is lost
and can you blame anyone who hoards a pile
however ill-gotten, however vile
but this beam in my eye is giving me grief
and I'm scared of what might come in the night
like a thief

what

2.1765 : 3/3/10 : Fill

Fill the tank just getting there
everyone will stop and stare
watching some insane parade
everybody drink the kool aid
they are no different than me
living out this parody
filling up the hungry tube
just use plenty plenty of lube
Despite it all I'll carry on
deliver you a daily song
yeah, you've heard the thing before
I live with it and still make more
do I crave the limelight stage
to somehow turn to a simpler age
no right now is fine by me
fill today defying entropy

what

2.1321 : 12/14/08 : Domino

So tired of how

the natural fall

of things

doesn’t seem to go my way

the domino

you know

or how the

pendulum swings

predictable, pedestrian

every day

it’s easy to blame

entropy

well who knows

the math is

impossible

and who can say

what’s

really improvement

when time’s river

is uncrossable

what

2.1174 : 7/20/08 : Muse Speaks

as long as you look for your

treasure without

you’ll be ever beset by

confusion and doubt

as soon as you seek for

your treasure within

you’ll wonder how you ever

did anything

without me

I sent you an airplane I sent you a boat

I sent a flaming arrow over your moat

why you always got to be testing me

as long as you look you

know you’re going to see:

as long as you look for your

treasure without

you’ll be ever beset by

confusion and doubt

as soon as you seek for

your treasure within

you’ll wonder how you ever

did anything

look up look down

mere entropy is loose in your town

give thanks give praise

or do you say what’s the point anyways

I guess I call it a lesson when

I’m of the right mind

I sought ten long years

and I did not find:

as long as you look for your

treasure without

you’ll be ever beset by

confusion and doubt

as soon as you seek for

your treasure within

you’ll wonder how you ever

did anything

what

2.961 : 12/20/07 : Triage Too

I’ll forego the last rites

the triage too

I’ll call my own demise:

Someday, true

I’m hoping I don’t make

too much of the future

call me old fashioned

but I’ll skip the suture

of post-human corpus

on this tired old flesh

I’d rather bow out

while my act’s still fresh

but I’ll probably go

in rust and entropy

fall slowly apart

no doubt you won’t see me

what

2.938 : 11/27/07 : Wrecked

I wrecked my mind looking for

too many angles

thought I was too hep for

the trim and spangles

As the years go past

we run the same flag up the mast

It seems all paths lead to

fragmentation

I never knew if unity

was just imagination

if entropy is pure tragic

if nothing at all is magic

Why are these forced

marches like pulling teeth

the strained refrains and

phrases hover beneath

while it accretes an hour dies

but done is done and damn my eyes

what

2.882 : 10/2/07 : The Demiurge

What’s the matter with matter says I

Why do I get caught up in the game

You asked if I had considered I said yes I

thought a thousand times but it always came out the same

here I am again with the Demiurge

Fighting to determine the right approach

Here I am again on the cusp of a great purge

it seems there is no stage on which he doesn’t encroach

There’s no escaping I am part of it

Made of matter entropic and temporal

And that gets to the bleeding heart of it

Another day another oh God what’s this fresh hell

here I am again with the Demiurge

Battle of wits like a toothpick against a gun

I’m losing my faith in the martial surge

Maybe somebody’s born to fight him I ain’t the one

I don’t know who I’m really praying to

I accept these words may merely rattle in my skull

Nobody gets me I believe but I’m not saying you

Ought to buy what I buy ‘cause my dance card’s already full

And I may never shake the Demiurge

No I suppose it comes from being material

And one day I guess the whole thing will merge

And have to face the abstract alien Imperial

what

2.879 : 9/29/07 : Food Chain

Everything that stops will start again

It’s part of nature so take heart my friend

But everything that starts must stop

So eat drink and be merry

while you’re at the food chain’s top

They say we’re damaging the natural balance

Like an electron striving out of its valence

But if they’re right its evolution’s fuck up

There but for the grace of Darwin so buck up

But if it’s God then what the fuck man?

Was evil just a way to get unstuck then?

Some devil on my shoulder keeps insisting

You made up Lucifer just to keep things interesting

A real good theory is that nothing matters

The law of entropy says it all scatters

in the end till it’s drawn back into a tight hot point

creation nails you up to the universal joint

and blows its stack straight back again

ignore it, hold your breath & count to ten

what