2.5265 : 10/2/19 : Secret (The Experiment: 100/100)

So this age is getting run

by mockers and fools

I show up early

try to play by the rules

Limit of my relevance

approaches zero fast

Some my litany may be

fully secret at last

keep the secret:

nobody left to tell

no clear objective for years

probably just as well

persistence becomes easy

habit's inertial drift

and I'd the survival bit gets ugly

There's always shorter shrift

always some scrap to write on

always a pencil stub

who knows what it could come to

You tell me future schlub

maybe even optimism

a renewed lease

one experiment is done

but I must keep saying

me secret piece

keep the secret...

what

2.5042 : 2/21/19 : Inertia or Initiative

As I form the inkling

of another secret plan

but the thing is

that I always

lose the plot

and what could ever

really measure up

and should I really just

be more thankful

for what I've got

What is it inertia

of initiative?

What's it matter really

if it reads the same

and still I mull

and fiddle with my

secret plan

try to stay convinced

that I'm still in the game

what

2.4747 : 5/2/18 : Hand Over Hand

How to retrack

kick the inertia back

How to revise the tool

though I'll look a bit the fool

I tried hand over hand

the one foot two foot

kick off the dust

still shuffling in the soot

what's this routine about

just trying to get faster

because time is spilling

and I'm rarely my own master

what

2.4376 : 4/26/17 : Plumb

Odds strike me slim

which one am I

pretending to

and what's the deal with him?

When the intertia

pendulum

ceases to swing

and hangs straight

plumb

and the appetites

wash over twice

just another

half turn of the vice

what

2.3965 : 3/11/16 : Simpletons

Simpletons

their simple solutions

inertia bombs

all the drab institutions

better

look look within

focus on the progeny

and bringing

the sheaves in

leave the simpletons

to their cheap debates

I'll rule a tiny kingdom

in the ruins

of the city states

what

2.3738 : 7/28/15 : Zero and Force (Endless Axis 471/500)

Inertia to zero

and force consequent

in a second

with a sharp

consonant

and a gut whuff

deep hollowing

did I ever tell you

how I got my following?

every time I open

my palm fate silvers it

Every time I pick up

bad luck

time pilfers it

so at the hard

stop I

took a deep breath

said

love, love, lover

Love is

Strong as death

what

2.3594 : 3/6/15 : Overwhelm (Endless Axis 327/500)

Is it the overwhelm

the effects of dilution

did it succumb

like any institution

to inertia, mundanity

and foregone conclusion

is there a point now

to try to cover my confusion

Once said I wore it

like a brand but then what?

I wasn't ever more

than a rough mutt

trying to get by

in a mean realm

trying to swim the crest

of the overwhelm

what

2.2794 : 12/26/12 : Cold Start

Wondering what's becoming
of me as I begin to doubt
that dreams mean anything
as I begin to see life
as a game of cruel percentages
a random distribution
a matter mainly of parentages
no hope for revolution
no hope for transformation
no point it turned out
in gathering the information
the dull eyed truth that it's depression talking
doesn't penetrate to my heart
and inertia's all I've got left
to impel me through another cold start

what

2.2486 : 2/22/12 : Time to End the Fantasy

And just like that it's
time to end the fantasy
I don't need to prepare
because I am the man you see
And what comes out
of the cold ashes in the pit
oh you will see and you will see
let's not spoil the surprise a bit
the fantasy you see was based
on notions out of books and plays
in truth I hadn't really in my heart
believe in it for five thousand days
inertia is a problem in this world
that first law you know how it goes
inertia is no joke
and when you can't catch any wind that blows
but that's already far behind
we left it in the stirring dust
and you must excuse me now
as I race to smash through the crust

what

2.2415 : 12/13/11 : The Other

Get one thing
forge the other
push me pull you
can't somebody help me
with a whack-a-brother
let it all slide
well no surprise
it ends up against a wall
with panic in its eyes
well what I need
well I won't say just what
and what would make
a difference
well I really got no clue though
but
get on to the other
if it seems a wild shot
in pitch black
Oh let's get on with the other
get on with the other
before inertia hits back

what

2.2349 : 10/08/11 : Ultimate and Undisputed

There's no ultimate
and undisputed
sorry for the runaround
the point, well
the point was disputed
but I have to figure out
how that truth doesn't
raise a rout
I need a better handle on
whatever it has been
So long
distraction and
such lack of sleep
the waves of sad
depression deep
it isn't here
it isn't now
the ultimate, oh anyhow
the undisputed
same same old
the kingdom of inertia
foretold

what

2.1603 : 9/22/09 : New Home

My big idea for a new home

for the words and these

silly little songs

turned out to cost too much

it really wasn’t all that big

just the first thing that occurred

since the last rug you yanked out

not to say that anything there was assured

I read a friend get way too intimate

talking about their fucked up life

maybe seven years you’ll read this friend

and it won’t mean a thing and that’s history’s knife

It’s not easy to find a new home

so we try real hard to make it work

but inertia is a wicked mistress

and these habits surely make me look the jerk

well I’m mostly not looking for a new home

just like to pick up better habits

it’s getting cold and I’m tired and it feels like

time to go to ground just like rabbits

what

2.1240 : 9/24/08 : Advance Strike

Nobody but the man

is making any advance strike

You sorry revolutionary

pedaling your bike

it all seems like good fun

until someone’s head gets cracked

it might as well be straight physics

the inertia of the way the odds are stacked

I want so bad to have a new solution

some way that’s not doomed before it starts

but long as we keep acting without thinking

blindly following our hearts

and the majority’s complacent

and power favors wicked vice

there’ll be no action from this vanguard

and we’ll all pay the same old price

what

2.704 : 4/7/07 : Dream Denier

I am rightly taken to task
for my pessimistic slant
though you can’t deny that I
am justified in seeing scant
evidence of any realistic
chance of cutting loose
from this dread social inertia
that drags like a lead caboose
Still it’s wrong and I should not
be so quick to piss on the fire
of thoughts and fantasies unchained
rebuke me as the dream denier
Dream on dream on speak your mind
I’ll keep my mouth shut it’s the least
that I can do to compensate
for my Pharisee’s unclean yeast
maybe I can be surprised still
by a doorway unimagined
prove it to my silent heart
unveil to me
this life’s rich pageant

what

2.609 : 1/2/07 : Dull Refrain

The final obstacles are
boredom, inertia, and loss of faith
The tissue of justification
is tattered and battered and thin as a wraith
And fearing a dissolve
revolving devolving to the dull refrain
bite down on another salty grain
There’s no earthly reason why
I couldn’t make this train wreck a lullaby
and put all the doubt and fear to rest
shrug and smile and say I did my best
And it would be okay to quit
to bow my head and stop
but my heart tells me it isn’t so
and so I let another drop
Hoping I can wiggle past
the dull refrain
And the plodding
And the nodding
and this God thing in my brain
And casting for a future
with a broader scope
And failing that, enough rope

what

351 : 3/27/99 : Inattention

1,290 : 2 ?


Entropy is embedded in the fabric of this universe
everything’s unraveling at a microscopic pace
just look at how the clutter in the attic’s getting worse
just look at all the new lines in your face
Inertia is the mainspring ever since that first big pop
And everything just pushes endlessly on
Look at how the days go by and never ever stop
Look at how the traces of the past are never gone
And inattention is the lynch pin
keep it all falling apart or pushing endlessly out
Making sure that we ignore the only engine
That could save it all from going down the spout

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

326 : 3/2/99 : Third Day

Things are getting tense on the
day before the third day
is anyone still marching anymore
Does anyone have anything to say?
Tempers start to grate against
the implacable inertia of the universe
I heard someone say the revolution had been postponed
I heard someone say it was something worse
Are you going to rise from the dead
on the third day like you said
Are you going to rise up from the grave
We’ve got them lined up for you to save
When I look back on five years gone
I feel so stupid and disgusted
Was it worth a single thing
I kept my cool while my chops got busted
Are you gonna keep me waiting always
Waiting for a sign to lead my way
Am I supposed to just march faithful
You’ve kept your promise on the third day
Are you gonna roll away the stone
Are you gonna make your presence known
I try so hard to keep my faith
As I get skinny as a rail and white as a wraith

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

79 : 6/28/98 : Force (Will series 1 of 6)

Where will the action occur
how will the power be supplied
where will inertia be fought
where will the force be applied
to bend this bent column straight
to push this wheel from its rut
to claim a finer destiny
to see the ties that bind us cut
what sort of dynamo
will energize our industry
what force of nature
will power our grand symmetry
the collective agency of our will
is the only resource they can’t steal
the collective agency of our will
is all we have to turn this wheel

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here