2.5168 : 6/27/19 : Swamp (The Experiment: 3/100)

Giving swamps

a bad name

in the real thing

best not to drain

find another word

to describe this bucket

riding on my shoulders

maybe a thorn to pluck at

that gives thorns

a bad name

nothing in nature

like this wack game

try to exercise

scream and stomp

wishing to retreat

escape into the swamp

what

2.4993 : 1/3/19 : Cape

Like a goof in a crux

in a cape

Think I stopped dreaming

of the great escape

Think I'll surprise them

all and ace the quiz

and from that launchpad

get the devil by the nape

what

2.4880 : 9/12/18 : Magic

Gave up on magic and

the fantasy escape

got all dragged down

tangled up on red tape

don't know if I miss it

just so much to do

as the days fritter by

and mundane bricks

accrue

what

2.4704 : 3/20/18 : Victory State

What would

look like good

to me right now

whould would I call

a victory state

want to put a stop

to escape fantasy

revenge fantasy

the myth of

the clean slate

want to be good

even still

speak well

crack the code

cut the knot

break this

spell

what

2.4660 : 2/4/18 : Bring On Tomorrow

Bring on tomorrow

all the hassle

the day to day-o

need not engulf

me hey-o

there's a little

left in the kitty

Write story 'bout a boy

acting saintly in the city

give me an hour

I'll make it work

and as to my grand escape!

merely a perk

what

2.4543 : 10/10/17 : The Rat Race

How about this plan

no escape

through no fault of my own

I'm in a wearing scrape

ain't it always something

Mr. Mephistopheles 

Trying to nail the dismount

but I'm running with

the lot of these

day in day outs

weekend seekers

I used to ramble

with the artsy freakers

but I lost my

card chasing necessity

and it sure looks

like the rat race has the best of me

what

2.4521 : 9/18/17 : A Pretty Low Bar

Can't bear a weight

tonight

So must leave

the world to its own

all right

forbear the

available taste

for once

a pretty low bar

to avoid the cap

marked dunce

must at some point

escape this limited

voice

or not I guess

not quite sure

it's a choice

duck for

the bar

turn in early

hope an extra half hour

finds me waking

a little less surly

what

2.4517 : 9/14/17 : Tongue Tied

I'm not tongue-tied

but merely tired

and perhaps a deeper cut

has so much changed

I don't know what

to hang the thread on

as I try to untangle it

and string myself along

the obvious

I scowl and cuss

unprofessional

not to get confessional

I write escape a

hundred times

still reluctant

to unpack my crimes

what

2.4486 : 8/14/17 : Too Many Books

Scattered over too many books

always thinking this one might

maybe if I tore out the pages

finally get them shuffled right

answers that i tried to scribble

was I ever inspired or just grasping straws

never one there when you need it

in the dark numinous jaws

of a moment that could spill

escape and revelation

this one dropped into the tub

that one lost on some vacation

this one colonized by figures

that one I can't read my own hand

can't think of what but to stack them

dusty corners are the home brand

what

2.4457 : 7/16/17 : Head Down

Push just past present

prematurely through

to morning's memories

reflected in the other self

chained to the vagaries

maybe a talking to

more assertions of transforming

pretend the secret escape plan

serves the contract of conforming

Survive in a small way

no saint not paragon

keep my head down a litle more

listen to my silent million

what

2.4426 : 6/15/17 : Love Is the Light that Smashes Darkness

Love is the light that

smashes darkness

love is the hollering bell

Love is the lasso

of truth and kindness

the only escape in

this sort of hell

forever they tell you

it fails and falters

they tell you it won't

pay the bills

but love is the light

that smashes darkness

the spark at the heart

of the billions' wills

what

2.4232 : 12/3/16 : Posession

If I had posession

oh a thousand things

diamonds and baubles

sure all this

world's brass rings

I complicate

'tis my nature

can't escape the snare

of the nomenclature

but - oh:

If I had posession

be a new sheriff in town

make a name oh sure yeah

colorize

this big ugly brown

what

2.4179 : 10/11/16 : Just What Abides

The fall's so far

I fall asleep

dream I'm walking

a tightrope

up an incline steep

I got so caught up

in the oohs and ahs

I forgot to pull

my contract out

read the escape clause

everyone was hot

and taking sides

I was lost in

contemplation

of just what abides

can anything hold up

to the deeptime shuffle

the chaos boys

were grinning

I got ready for a scuffle

what

2.4028 : 5/13/16 : Sap

Hand upon hand

trying to beat the brass

out of the cynic's band

go giving me a ghost of a chance

baby baby do you still like to dance

Shoulders in the press

head in the trap

and even after I

decided I'd be nobody's sap

I stood in the stalls

like anyone at all

and hustled for all the

same scrap

Escape the big circle

might well be another

Work mill

but I'd be

Somewhere else

no debate

and far past the bounds

of the steady state

what

2.3910 : 1/16/16 : Hyperpause

Carve the perimeter

the hyperpause

try not to fall in

there's no escape clause

this time

on this one

grind that edge finely

you may still see sun

one day coming

around the bend

of this hyperpause humming

what

2.3862: 11/29/15 : Looped

Trying to break

escape the loop

play right back into it

yanked plank

the swoop

that looped

dove

banked sharp

swung out

I was the one

that got cold damaged

hung out

grant unto me

a new loop

or better

a real road

unending

and the passage letter

what

2.3814 : 10/12/15 : Scrap

Dark seed beckons

but spin it in a

spiral instead

I had far to go

to be lying in

my made bed

perspective can't

escape the lesson

of the privileged few

all dead but a handful

and doesn't mean

a scrap to you

what

2.3689 : 6/9/15 : Irony (Endless Axis 422/500)

As such I dish it up

with excess irony

I know this much

this jack stacks up like do re mi

and it repeats

and I repeat myself again

I used to think I was

some troubador slash paladin

and the irony

does not escape me now

I used to think I was

on the scent of Tao

what

2.3572 : 2/12/15 : Magic and Escape (Endless Axis 305/500)

Grant me the juice

the grit or whatever

to seize the moment

to pull that damn lever

and flush this stale notion

magic and escape

tear through that veil

now whip me into shape

One last extension

one last medicine run

One last note to lie

and declare I've begun

Grant me the current

and the currency

a get out of jail free card

an honorary degree

what

2.3567 : 2/7/15 : Zero Sum (Endless Axis 300/500)

Call every course

that's clear

we can escape

We can get out of here

It's no zero

sum game

for a hero

who's worth the name

place in my hand

a gem of great price

call my broker

isn't that nice

I'll put it to serve

a higher good

I'll do it honest

I'm no hood

I'll do it open

no dark lantern schtick

pay heed or no

you will all

feel the kick

what