2.5293 : 10/30/19 : 80/20

80/20 who doesn't

love business speak

80% sure I already

hit my peak

whoa that's scary

depressing morose

20% chance

some real opportunity is close

tell the same story

again and over

guy that got the mystic mission

the muse and what drove her

but to be frank the 80

percent that was tedious smack

made the 20 shining exceptions

seem so very far back

what

2.5203 : 8/1/19 : ABUNDANCE (The Experiment: 38/100)

Now to the anxious dreams

the opposite of abundance

I'm tired of the show

you know it's not a fun dance

I can't keep up the principle

no scarcity no striving

inside a nervous grasping

fears the future's new arriving

see it as the burden of

the day, no real condition

try to stand up straight and say

Still present for the mission

what

2.4749 : 5/4/18 : Routines

The routines all cost

and the point gets lost

in the repetition

no object no mission

am I not entertained

kapow get brained

I think it's weird enough

and it's got way past tough

what

2.4604 : 12/10/17 : Tapped

Thinking I'm tapped

but then I always think I'm tapped

and so the heap grows

always a little

sparkle in the scrap

hardly a mission

hardly a plan

and my choices of words

mark me as a confused man

and the dull, the grind

commands way too much

of my mind

guess I'm a natural cog

but so why do I still flog

this rusty spluttering tap

shrug off the questions

close the book: snap

what

2.4518 : 9/15/17 : Nub

think I'm

worn to a nub

ah there's

the rub

I knew the cycle

and this

mission's a scrub

never a thing to prove

the bell's rung

and I have

to move

what

2.4496 : 8/24/17 : Crew Goal

The exciting discovery

of failing light

chance for a crew goal

we'll get it together

in just one night

an excuse to

leave home

mission to an unknown land

everybody gets to be

a hero now and then

oh we sister's band

what

2.4406: 5/26/17 : Could Be Worse

Conceive a mission

just for a change

the birth, the universe

everything to rearrange

Call it a mirror

a gatefold ode to verse

it isn't much

but it sure as hell could be worse

what

2.4354 : 4/4/17 : Mission

12 year mission

So far but

So sure to end

Still without an inkling

of what's around

the next bend

and many grimly

questioned

that which held me

in its thrall

Said:

Strength

Stillness

and compassion

and that

was all

what

2.4277 : 1/17/17 : Goal

What the hell's the definition

between a goal

and a mission

if I finally got it

written down

could I finally lift

my head and look around

I can't believe

threw more hours

down that hole

chasing the zeitgeist

baiting the troll

bail bail bail

leaks are multiplying

holy hell in twelve

I'll purely be dying

what

2.4269 : 1/9/17 : Dead Eye

Always aiming

always

scoping out

fifth decade

on the mission

still a

groping scout

never getting

that dead-eye

flow down

oh someday

I shall

there'll be

a hoe down

what

2.4189 : 10/21/16 : Abandoned Digs

The abandoned digs

may be no longer

accessible

somewhere an empty

Avatar

abandoned in

the vestibule

are we still in

a simulation

doubtless by

some definition

where are you

old friend

and oh

whither the mission?

what

2.4011 : 4/26/16 : Battlefield

Rejoin the battlefield

half willing

dragged along

another 180 degrees

wasted

trolling this

digital song tra bong

painted up

knucklebones

go all the way bush

Waiting for a mission

getting softer

now the lethal push

what

2.3696 : 6/16/15 : Dayside (Endless Axis 429/500)

Put it all together

a new day side

right now

sealed with a kiss

not a promise or vow

and let this mantra

be your mission statement

still on still up

still defy abatement

Salute the morning

back ten and five

Shot the gauntlet

emerged alive

Salute to all

that turned up right

and to that love

which smashed me into light

what

2.3676 : 5/27/15 : Creeps (Endless Axis 409/500)

Bust up from the start

I knew it wasn't for the faint of heart

The try again getting pretty stale

While my mission creeps in the face of travail

A list here and a list there

One unwritten describes a pear

that's the shape of the going of the best laid

What choice but to drink the Later-Ade

Later the song the book the masterpiece

Later travel, charity, the fight for peace

What creeps out of the modern jungle

a whole lotta unexpected mission to bungle

And then a pin in it and back to scrum

Got to do what's to do from here to Kingdom Come

and try to find the moment and a positive vibe

pending a signal from my post-ismic tribe

my imaginary million distributed freak

more I don't know so thereof I don't speak

Call it a tall tale about hope

all it a course correction call it a trope

what

2.3632 : 4/13/15 : Service (Endless Axis 365/500)

Pressed into service

from troubled sleep

trying to grasp another rhythm

I could not keep

drumming my fingers

tapping my toes

wondering whatever

transcends mere prose

What was the mission?

relentless sunshine

clutching or pining

for a manner just not mine

not to question if it's worth it

nor if it pays

hold those queries silent

for later days

what

2.3595 : 3/7/15 : The Writer (Endless Axis 328/500)

The writer has a plan now

one two three

and kapow

The mission is a map see

and roll it

comes up craps, see

and roll it

probably come up

nothing

still working, huh

here's

the thing

You'll make of it

what you will

if you decide

the kill pill

no I'll make of it

water

the highest good

the blotter

what

2.3584 : 2/24/15 : Recovery (Endless Axis 317/500)

All this world

must pursue recovery

It needs a program

a voyage of discovery

oh world you're hooked on

Shine and ambition

Oh world you know

you need a mission

what

2.3497 : 11/29/14 : Crew (Endless Axis 230/500)

And for these goals

that stay obstinately still

And those who it seems they won't

though they say they will

don't let it get me down

be glad for the ones

who break through

Someday a mission

Someday a peace chest

Someday a righteous crew

what

2.3347 : 7/2/14 : The Battlefield (Endless Axis 80/500)

Life is a battle

death is a journey

the way that I see it

I'm no rules attorney

Everyone got angry

shook a fist

when I said he won his battle

escaped into the mist

fearing death

is a superstition

getting off the battlefield's

a holy mission

it does not require death

but you must accept it

that was my secret

until now I kept it

what

2.3329 : 6/14/14 : Transition (Endless Axis 62/500)

The old vice the same price

there's a solution but it's not nice

the clean fission the manual transmission

I don't know what I got but I dare call it vision

why not get tight why not light a light

I call myself anything anything but bright

the quick mission you'd ask but you're just fishing

I gave a lot it come own to transition

what