2.4930 : 11/1/18 : Buy

Bring me something I can buy

I mean believe if you can take

the irony of putting it that way

I need a hope transfusion

credible and not delusion

and I need to be able to make it pay

and I guess that it's a little bit

better than the old time

brother act depression and rage

but when I boil it down it's

still a lot of what if what if

blame it like a weakling on the age

what

2.4874 : 9/6/18 : Unseen

The long unseen

the ironic

callback

Same dear

best try

land on

same hack

what

2.4603 : 12/09/17 : Someone Else's Business

Early rising and not

the ironic kind

and not happy about

the reasons behind

Someone else's business

my too large role in it

Hope to tell by the time

this sees light I'll

have found the hole in it

and busted free

I wish I found my own plank

Something worth

getting up early for

You would surely hear my thanks

what

2.4504 : 9/1/17 : Iconic

Don't want to be ionic

clever wise or ironic

keep the goodies in the can

and daydreams about the secret plan

what

2.4458 : 7/17/17 : Rain Symphony

Rain symphony forever familiar

never remotely the same

nature who will outlive us all

forever wild and never tame

they hunted water in the desert

they prayed for fire to melt the ice

and in the age of heat and more heat

they counted it as gold in price

we'll pray the mighty river does not dry

we'll fight them trying to pipe it to Vegas

and because irony never dies

in many times and places the rain will plague us

I'll tip my head and smile wide

you'll hear no doleful din from me

just the soft tapping on my skin

in the falling of the rain symphony

what

2.4018 : 5/3/16 : What Could

Rise early

unironic and

unhappy with it

fed up

calculated

to the seventh digit

oh sure the

world needs more of me

wrasslin'

the what

could never be

what

2.3998 : 4/13/16 : Crevice

What got lodged

in the crevice

nothing valuable

no reason to get nervous

never getting back

well that's canonical

just like the crevice

and its parables all ironical

what

2.3859: 11/26/15 : For Granted

Take too much for granted

crave a rich portion

in my heart

grip my life in both hands

won't sacrifice for art

Look a little too much

like a patriarch

in a larval stage

Irony is stark

So I'll say my thanks

however I might feel

and leave to silent

prayer

my great appeal

what

2.3778 : 9/6/15 : White Guilt

I've got that white guilt

I've got entitlement

I've got survivor's guilt

about the environment

I sport on lakes

while kids die in the sea

What do I say

I ain't no refugee

Guilt doesn't help

nobody's buying

not posting that

nor bother replying

barely afloat

in my own way

that's crummy irony

but it's a strange day

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

2.3598 : 3/10/15 : Time Machine (Endless Axis 331/500)

I sure can't keep this up

if you keep plying the time machine

too much irony

too much jack if you know what I mean

hold out a hand

nobody's stopping this when

fall back on the flow

and repeat again

again again again

what

2.3184 : 1/20/14 : What Kind

The irony and my story

the 19 year old mind

thinking it has such developed

notions of what kind

It's not regret, second guessing

still self awareness is a mixed blessing

double it, it feels like

It could be critical hit

losing steps right and left

chancing the pendulum pit

these days doom feels imminent

feel dead old; need black tea and liniment

What kind will they say

When I'm the daisy pushing type

Will anyone even remember the hype?

what

2.3044 : 09/02/13 : Once Upon a Time

What else can I

feeling a worm,

and no man - I

meditate upon

another day

I put my foot down

and the thing

went my way

I want tales and

adventure

not soliloquy

stark and vital

not ironic

or twee

Once upon a time

I hit on a way

to break out

pray for lightning

to strike twice

for my way

to shake out

101 Curious Professions 89: Storyteller

what

2.2766 : 11/28/12 : Priorities

Are you trying to tell me something
about priorities
I said they'd come first but I
can't get to them
that's some exquisite irony
I could use a little help here
The Path's anything but clear
can you even relate to fear
Without a wheel I cannot steer
And here I am
at a remove discussing
my priorities
Speaking to air
inside my head
craving just a taste of my old certainty

what

2.2693 : 9/16/12 : Forget

If I could oh
really forget myself and tomorrow
What a proof against
a world of sorrow
I said I'd do it
this very day
isn't what I always say
why the looking in
What am I seeking
why looking ahead
I can't shake this sneaking
feeling it all comes to fear
and lashing out at ghosts
to forget the only antidote
ironic what I fear the most

what

2.2673 : 8/27/12 : Virtual

Like some irony
virtual memory loss
From the imaginary
other thing in a long list
Of things I don't do anymore
list just keeps growing longer
hardly know what it's for

what

2.2614 : 6/29/12 : Labor

The labor is not ending
no matter how sick
I am of defending
what seems self-evidently
necessary
Look have you ever
seen a deader canary?
That canary is deceased
it has expired
it fell for the last time
off its wire
it's an ex-canary
it's passed right on
it's kicked the bucket
the canary is gone
but that is not the labor
and I'm wasting air
ironically the very
thing we had to repair

what

2.2590 : 6/05/12 : Food of the Gods

Stick it in
your horn and blow it
grasp the nettle
by the horns
and throw it
onto the bonfire
of the bell curve sods
little suspecting
I'm being fed the food of the gods
I know it looks like
I'm destinationless, lost
the bloom is faded
then killed by a hard frost
however potent
it cannot return death to living
the food of the gods
so next time I'll be more forgiving
I can't imagine
what tomorrow brings at all
I can't be bothered
to resist the mundane thrall
the irony is
I'll be shocked with all the rest
the Food of the Gods
such a simple
trick has put me to the test

what

2.2534 : 4/10/12 : Pierre (Mt. Metaphor 3/58)

I guess we must have
gone through Pierre
capital city
on our beginning of the end
tour
how little I remember
how time has fled
but I'll slow down time
for my dream instead
drive along the river
see the fort
hit the war memorials
call the thing a vacation
of some sort
send a half ironic postcard
says wish you were here
kill half a day
and get out of Pierre

what

2.2454 : 1/21/12 : Light

Ironically the problem
maybe how I'm
pressing light into my eyes
ironically coherent
in the sense of being
full of very pretty lies
Half failing half succeeding
I could be worse but I'm not good
and my eyes are basting
in this light
if you've got anything to tell me
I really wish you would

what