2.4927 : 10/29/18 : Sense of Horror

Sense of horror

who needs anything more

than the persistence

of absence

of a functional door

none of your

howling rants

really cut

Where it counts

easier said than done

in whatever amounts

what

2.4671 : 2/15/18 : Disconnects

Every disconnect

is past distracting from

and old news I expect

and I just acting dumb

Who wants anything but

love and stories

this dim age can only

mine past glories

this dismal age can only

get better please tell me I'm right

I can't contemplate

the horror of further blight

what

2.3784 : 9/12/15 : Winston

Winston Smith

what should I make of you now

the screen don't watch us back

but we're all watching anyhow

I had a dream, not of you

but your namesake planted a seed

holy black mother of invention

sacred daughter of need

I leave a mark to remember

like so many before

maybe be my room of terror

maybe be the last decent horror

leave the rest to the bomb squad

remembrance and the past

pray for simple outcomes

pray this marker

forever to last

what

2.3476 : 11/8/14 : More Art (Endless Axis 209/500)

Many things can happen

the horror and the hope

Pray for more art

and a wider scope

Maybe just need to

relax and dig in

And vow to push hard enough

to fit this peg in

If I made a real vow

What on earth would I unseal

What's highest and holy

or unquestionably real

Open my eyes wide

and ride it without fear

believe believe believe

that way at last will be made clear

what

2.3453 : 10/16/14 : Pouring (Endless Axis 186/500)

Raining

so it's pouring

pretending

my spirit's soaring

pretending

I'm really wroth

really I'd like

to end you all

like Yog-Sothoth

No strength

to spin that

yet the axis holds

I guess I'm in this

till the whole plane

folds

never doubted

guess that's

my silver strand

now give me

a fucking break

now dial me up

a band

what

2.3166 : 1/02/14 : Sign

Sign of the cross

I've got the sign of the pen

maybe everything that could be

must eventually happen

I don't even know

if that's horror or glory

So what in hell

could possibly wind up this story

the worm is strong in me

it turns and turns

these days they praise disruption

but all whistle when it burns

signs of the times they say

no signal for a halt

the way all things just have to go

and surely no one's fault

what

2.3020 : 08/09/13 : Haunt

I'm gonna haunt you

come Christmas Eve

Show you past and present

and still up my sleeve

the darkest future

a real horror-show

if that won't turn you

well I just don't know

101 Curious Professions 65: Ghost of Christmas

what

2.2851 : 02/21/13 : Horrorshow

A misuse of imagination
this modern horror show
between better you than me
and there but for the Grace of God I go
is the butterzone
sweet utopia
Oh baby I'll come I'll climb
that slippery slope with ya
I know I kinda been running
crash raids on it
but when you feel me
call the glory of God upon it
Ain't nobody be talking about the horrorshow
and when we get it back oh baby there we go

what

2.2445 : 1/12/12 : Power Bar

Could I get some power
in the form of a bar
something stamped with a star
something formulated
in an eldricht lab
Cthulu's power snack's
what I always grab
on my way to the horror
of the twilight sea
available in convenient
packages of three
always a good time
to feast on insanity
the only power bar
that makes you shriek oh the humanity

what

2.2411 : 12/09/11 : Emotional Spending

That account
was already mighty thin
keeps getting hit again and again
emotional spending
hows my balance
not so good I fear
a lot of static in my valence
see that shell
looks like I'm good for bonding
while I strive to coordinate
my capital's absconding
damn now the money's
even in my metaphors
considering the real topic
well it's giving me the horrors

what

2.2246 : 06/27/11 : Wall

Maybe there's a story
in this thing after all
if I can just ignore the horror
and the unscalable wall
If I can just stop looking
at you hideous monstrosities
sorry for the derail
too many nightmares made of these
feel I must look away
but who is forced to look then
pray for a better world someday
but I wouldn't bet when
the wrong direction
I was shooting for optimistic
maybe tomorrow
I'll try again, make it stick

what

2.1815 : 4/22/10 : Expecting Death

Expecting death
is not pessimism
and in that simple horror tale
is the root of the death of -ism
and yet to dwell on it
is to poison what is sweet
in life and little as there is
it's a shame to waste the tender meat
Expecting ends
ages, civilizations
deaths of economies
and media and occupations
the only solution
that I've ever found
is to be here now
feet on ordinary ground

what

2.1643 : 11/1/09 : Intercession

Failing belief in material intercession

It seems likely I’m saddled for the long haul

And it’s unseemly to complain about minor affliction

but it prefigures the reaper and his gory maul

but it prefigures the the horrifying world

no protection from pitiless chance

no intercession and a horrifying world

don’t expect praises, don’t expect to dance

I could be coughing away my life here

wouldn’t make any difference, I’d be in the same

boat with you

I don’t know it that’s a mark for or against you

I don’t know I can make any sense of what you do

And I reckon I’ll survive this one just like the rest

hell I used to do it sucking up smoke

but I’m leaving it up to you to come up with an argument

that the lack of intercession doesn’t make you act

kind of a joke

what

2.1533 : 7/14/09 : Technically (The Golden Age 78/100)

Technically today

though there’s many a slip

I can just hear the gory tubes that drip

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Look away a moment

and one day the truth is gone, gone

and yet have to go on

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

what

2.1414 : 3/17/09 : Horrible Cycle

So long horrible cycle

though it was oh so easy

to ride you after

all this time

I think all in all

you’re going nowhere

fixed in a circle

while I need to climb

what

2.1400 : 3/3/09 : Clock

On somebody else’s clock

could be working, taking stock

seem to be getting sicker

not quite what was on the sticker

from here things seem pretty set

most change is a losing bet

the it’ll never happen quartet

playing right into my ear

and other horrors of future years

I should think of some distinction

save this non-starter from extinction

on the trash heap now so high

what, I’m an optimistic guy

what

2.1255 : 10/9/08 : Feel Life

Feel life there is only

this now cliché

sure:

But truth is truth and

that’s gospel, pure

there is no limit to the horror

the suffering

but there are always

precious moments of recovering

dwelling and raging

will not change a thing

I’m going to write

and I’m going to sing

I may never be good enough

to call it pro

but I’ll feel life

Choose life

till I have to go

what

2.540 : 10/25/06 : Horror Essence

Why does
that essence exist
why does it plague me
the horror the horror
what is says
and what it’s for
he was a
cynical cat all right
I could reel off
that sort of poetry all night
I tell myself
soon inspiration
the grace I imitated
crucial station
to station
I heard about it in a
book what irony
but it meant all the same
to me
I’m turning my back
on the horror essence
look at me
learning all my lessons

what