2.5191 : 7/20/19 : Poison (The Experiment: 26/100)

Pick my poison

some things go way back

No grace or poise on

build up the stack

with another admonition

to ignore all prior timelines

Latest hymn to king attrition

scrapping coins to pay my rhyme fines

my inflation style syllabic

pick my poison see the trend

watch me pull my usual drab trick

drift lift spill mill wend

what

2.4551 : 10/18/17 : Whip

all I hear is a

whip cracking

but I'm numb to it

like I bit the poison

apple

and. too dumb to spit

I feel the sleep

of a thousand years

hell I wish I could

just pull it up

aroud my ears

what

2.4298 : 2/7/17 : Every Bright Head

This poison drool

will float my

back teeth off

but won't stop

piling up

till it fills

my dumb kopf

seems these days

what I'm up to generate

down with the

general hate

swish cane and

lops

every bright head

that bobs

a little too high

sure at least

I'm safe

such a downcast guy

but I should look out

for those bright lights

seeing as how we ain't half done

with these days' fights.

what

2.4012 : 4/27/16 : Flight

All things are made of flight

all variance is density

hail the lenses focusing time

remote in space hid in immensity

So is transmuted each desire

and I no longer know my own mind

poison seethes just underneath

my vampire teeth just pierced the rind

I envy the ones I put in place

I covet their clarity and call

a million cash and a thousand week vacation

got no answer to what if I won it all

beams cross at neither art nor science

heaped and fettered in the danse mundane

hey newest saint blow a kiss back

this acolyte is bowing in this rain

what

2.3922 : 1/28/16 : Poison

I've got codes, categories

but it's all filed:

Quotidian

bad habits and mischance

Call project what I did again

noting but to wait

for poison to run its course

and usually

I've dealt with worse

what

2.3867: 12/04/15 : Rough Salt

Too many cooks

rough salt and

battery

In a poison mirror

everywhere

will get you flattery

If it seems like

random slinging

when I get these

dumb bowls ringing

and the thousand

cooks' clatter

just a drop in the din

and me struggling

over if 

transformation

proceeds from within

what

2.3866: 12/03/15 : Last Level

I'm so last level guess

I might get pity fucked

I'm fraidy cat of what might

go down if I got unstuck

The piper don't even play no more

he knows I'll still pay

I never said I'd ever

be a winner anyway

Such dull rhymes

So white so straight

So stout and protestant

thin crust over hate

Curdled and poisoning

aimed within

Zip it back behind one flash

of a devil's grin

what

2.3665 : 5/16/15 : Tracks (Endless Axis 398/500)

Many directions

little motive force

felt myself on tracks before

still wonder at the source

that keeps me twisting

unsatisfied

I knew I dreamed the old man's

coughing for he surely died

and how do these strange dreams

connect to the poison of tracks

both darkly leading

to some cataracts

what

2.3548 : 1/19/15 : Battery (Endless Axis 281/500)

Does the battery have enough

charge in in it?

You'd think so it's sure

enough large i'n'it?

What's left that's

penny for a pound these days?

how will I live with it

If my sound dismays?

I pulled the poison plug

jeez 15 years

just have to dodge the random squirts

the imp aims at my ears

started to charge the battery

and now I'm at my peak

and I'll power up your crazy bike

'Cause you're my kind of freak

what

2.3253 : 3/30/14 : Higher Purpose

I'm kill this poison

with stronger poison

how'd I get

so smart

there's no such thing as

a higher purpose

there's no such thing

as art

there's such a thing as

getting my end in

you better all

watch out

I gave up looking

for my higher purpose

I'm on a tear

a rout

I'm kill the stronger poison

with lord high

ultrapoison

I'll seed it in

the clouds

oh how I'll laugh all

immune and furious

watch it rain on

the crowds

what

2.3202 : 2/7/14 : What Lies Buried

Getting furious

while I meditate

is this a joke

maybe I'm doing great

work it all out

get some air to it

Some days I don't know

whether to stare or shit

Want to vomit up

every poison thought

boy what lies buried

is a juggernaut

ready to erupt

at the drop of a hat

another effort to empty

goes splat

and what lies buried

is a life's work

and sometimes hell

I just feel like a jerk

what

2.3140 : 12/07/13 : Roll

Roll for initiative

roll to save

I'd be embarrassed to admit

how many fucks I gave

and what's this now

it's not as if I don't care

but effort seems irrelevant

so at another flash I stare

roll versus poison

roll to dodge

If I could find the right number

I've a complaint to lodge

I tell stories worse

than when I was thirteen

pray what the hell

is that supposed to mean?

what

2.3041 : 08/30/13 : Confabulator

Confabulator

in the service of kings

tarnished versions sure

ignoble things

you picks your poisons

and collect your coin

hoping it will kick up

something better to join

hope I end up

with some time to spare

come up with my own

little lies to share

A world of plenty

folks of good will

a common purpose

no reasons to kill

oh sure now that's some

confabulation

but if everything's stories

that's my busman's vacation

101 Curious Professions 86: Liar

what

2.3032 : 08/21/13 : My Poison Garden

I've seen what passes

for success

for my kind these days

and there's another

kind but

I can't crack their ways

and there's another

wizards of a language

I don't possess

and what

kind am I

I don't know and am afraid to guess

the little here brigade

the little there

regiment

there's never room left

for me under

anyone's tent

but I can roll this one

up tight in leaves

of my poison garden

pour the resin over

soak it in

and watch it Harden

101 Curious Professions 77: Roller

what

2.3017 : 08/06/13 : Criticize

Those who can't do it

can always criticize

Hell yeah, me too

It stinks and damn your eyes

never in my life

have I seen such abomination

gotta love the knife

so much more fun than information

every artist needs

nature to provide an enemy

been on the other side indeed

felt the vitriol so venomy

thinking sure I might

just enjoy wielding the lash

Say it should be more than a fight

shit babe I'm in it for the cash

101 Curious Professions 62: Critic

what

2.2778 : 12/10/12 : Working

What do you get
if you say it isn't working
maybe an apartment
and a lawyer's bill
What's your next move
When you can't see a future
another plan
or the poison pill
Never stop it says
never settle
It was a slogan
on a liquor ad
I had a thought
about hope and promise
Still working on it
day and night, gay or sad

what

2.2603 : 6/18/12 : Minutes

Making book on minutes
not impressive
after six or seven years
am I afraid to lie down
fear that poison
might get forced into my ears
it has to be enough
but that don't make it
anything like plenty
don't ask me
where it's headed
if you must go ask who sent me

what

2.2596 : 6/11/12 : Portals

Suddenly thinking of
the poison I've let them
pour in
into these precious portals
strapped to either side
of my head
I'm tired as hell
with it
it's all
illusions for us
hapless mortals
but I plan to
sleep through it
in an uncertain
unmade bed

what

2.2417 : 12/15/11 : Tolereance

I should have
built up more
tolerance by now
to the poison
to the trauma
to the broken vow
I should have come up
with a strategy
instead of what still
looks a whole lot like
wait and see
nobody is watching
or expecting anymore
appreciate their tolerance
they don't
show me the door
as I try to grasp the nettle
take the bull by its horns
end up lightly gored
and with a hand
full of thorns

what

2.2391 : 11/19/11 : Anger Wrought (Seventeen Nights 1/17)

And all that
anger wrought
was forgetting this
plus angry thought
that turns and
curdles the heart
poisoning the mood
and spoiling the start

what