2.5271: 10/8/19 : Scheming

Can't stop the scheming

The pure perplexing dreaming

the inner essayist

Sorry old friend

that chance I missed

trying to make

sense of the scraps

the ghostly hand

fire-writes: perhaps

dullard obligations

call me from my schemes

I'd shed a tear

but my eyes are full of beams

what

2.4933 : 11/4/18 : Talent

Ghosts of raw talent

from before I was born

like I need the reminder

well I won't yield to scorn

not to be claiming

I'm getting anyplace

While more of my grin

falls out of my face

I reckon they'll patch me

back up again yet

like I patch up these bits

just the best I can get

what

2.4872 : 9/4/18 : Symmetry

Already tripped up

all my pretty symmetry

Sure won't string along

thing thing indefinitely

pass down and crown

some last hour

try to feel the spark ghost

of a long lost power

what

2.4836 : 7/30/18 : Resistor

Resistance peaking

could I yet break through

chased by a nightmare

where I lost

and failed you

what does that nemesis

represent

a ghost of the past

threat of

the present

to what end

this role as the resistor

am I boiling down

a signal

can I insist your

grand arrangement

promises some guiding

will my plodding walk

ever again feel

like gliding?

what

2.4780 : 6/4/18 : No Magical Place

You go down the rabbit hole fast

It's no magical place

it's a blast from the past

and the present and

help me the future too

I daydream again

about escape with you

I need I need to smother this toxic seed

this angry ghost

this ersatz need

stop looking in the dead wrong places

seek the lower ground

the watery traces

If I put my hands together

bowed to the floor

If I kept my face to the wall

will you show me the door

If I edge out of this hole

a wriggle at a time

stay alert to the revert

and on tiptoes for the chime

what

2.4444 : 7/3/17 : The Past

The Past not gone

not even past

a good line and yet

things don't last

but bones and spectres

are everywhere

are they in our world

or do we stil

Live in theirs?

what

2.4184 : 10/16/16 : Ghost Touch

Had to fight

to shake off

the ghost touch

Still wasn't right

Well I

don't ask much

this will pass

also

it all does

no reason for

it it's

all just 'cause

what

2.4105 : 7/29/16 : What Ghost?

What ghost is it

well I know not yours

Because you left this world clean

and you're not haunting it

So it must be me

some I-once-was kid

had something tossed away

and now I'm wanting it

or maybe that crumb of cheese

or a bowl of ice cream

oh I say I know better

but just look at me

And that mean patrol boy

ain't a haunting sure

but he's looking real prone

to throw the book at me

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

2.3892: 12/29/15 : Long Shadows

restive wary

long shadows

pushing the frost line

ghost of past snows

nothing lived

will ever return

nothing dies

nothing is lost

long shadows inter

what

2.3817 : 10/15/15 : Square Jaw

Have I got a bell

left to ring

do I still give a rip

for anything

besides the home the kid

the wife like any

square jaw

there must have

been an

inflection point

some rare law

seems we won't rally

so I guess we sink

but maybe we always

think we're on the

Brink

fishing with a square jaw

and a ghost light

close the book on it

and say goodnight

what

2.3799 : 9/27/15 : Ensign

Luminous fantasy

plugged in jacked

every function

sidelined

every input stacked

imagined the ensign

cut loose

adrift

swept into

great evil

watch the tone

shift

So we're all

assimilated

In the machine

no ghosts

no simple answers

no one gets

out clean

what

2.3662 : 5/13/15 : My Back (Endless Axis 395/500)

Nothing else today

but to briefly praise

what I knocked

off my back

Wave that stick around

take shots about the crown

if you don't like it

how about the other track

Curl to be straight

I spring back from the weight

free and lighter

worth a toast

lost track of days

doesn't matter still pays

I might just recorporate

old gumption's ghost

what

2.3454 : 10/17/14 : Pouring (Endless Axis 187/500)

Forgive my

buzz phrases

but oh this new normal

every specter

it raises

can only step back

can only breathe deep

can only count my blessings

and try

to get some sleep

what

2.3390 : 8/14/14 : Econo (Endless Axis 123/500)

No excuse I know

not to wind up

not to throw

No idea of a target

the ghost says so?

you can go real slow

and you can jam Econo

what

2.3290 : 5/6/14 : Chased the Ghost (Endless Axis 23/500)

5 years you chased the ghost

did you ever believe

did you ever really ask

did you wait to receive

You hold five in your hand

change unimaginable

And ghosts must pass uncaught

You must slash down the flash and babble

but it's all right to say

everything's going to be okay

and if you chased a ghost

strange to say you did more than most

what

2.3271 : 4/17/14 : Of Seven (Endless Axis 4/500)

One of seven

of one of two

in a minute I will know

in a minute I will know

exactly what to do

sure at last

confident

surging past

all ghosts of the past

nothing mystic

just firm intent

by main force

the column finally unbent

save the world

or get rich trying

hit it so right

I'll leave you crying

what

2.3125 : 11/22/13 : Wheel of Ghostly Function

I'd like to think this fresh affliction

might make some junction

but I fear it's just a spoke

On this great wheel of ghostly function

and I'm tired tired tired

and the pain is abundant

and just now anyway

prayer and planning seem redundant

Oh I could go on and on

like that damn spectral wheel

make up another last stand

make another sweet appeal

I could go on hiatus

and hell I could just quit

Despite the wheel's dire shadow though

I will not even think of it

what

2.3110 : 11/07/13 : Partners in Rhyme

So Lou Reed's slamming

with the ancestors now

Lord Lou look down on me

and my weakness empower

with a whisper a new and

never heard rhyme

What about it partner

does it ring a chime

In the shadows of those

I'm unfit to sweep up

in my towering insufficiency

why do I still try to keep up

At long last have I

nothing but the gimmick

the Ghost of Lou Reed

as usual is inimical

what

2.3055 : 09/13/13 : Story

Everyone with a story

lord how many billion

that's not to say a word

about the ghost cotillion

How do we ever get

a single thing done

You have to find a story

to share with everyone

am I naive

oh hey hell yes

am I a punk

still wanting to say yes

don't need fortune fame

homage or glory

just two feet of light

and an hour to tell the story

101 Curious Professions 100/101: Storyteller (II)

what