2.4772 : 5/27/18 : Riddle

As we close in on

the beginning of the middle

getting lazy

giving a shrug invoke the riddle

an inkling tickles

but it's not like there's a pulpit

for a gospel I might preach

and anyway

I'm just a culprit

in this seven billion lineup

no no's stand out in the crowd

however I might quietly

however I might loud

try to ring a bell

or flash a little light

better start something small

as well befits

my dim insight

what

2.4739 : 4/24/18 : Right Question

The right question

will come to me

like a bird like a ray

unbidden

In the depth of dream

in the mire of work

all revealed that

once was hidden

I will know it when

it is on my lips

but I'll hold it

I won't ask it

till the perfect time

and the perfect place

the great riddle

I'll unmask it

what

2.4553: 10/20/17 : The Circumstances

Wish I could understand

the highs, the lows

Where the one comes from

Where the other one goes

I see the circumstances

don't quite explain

is it all upstairs

phantom illusions in my brain

wish I could start over

jettison so much

but the things I must hold onto

aren't so negotiable as such

same old riddle

twist around to what now

pray for better circumstances

might even get around to now

what

2.4400: 5/20/17 : All Riddles

All riddles 'cause I'm

feeling dumb as hell

hope like heck to leave you

with a big oh well

Still trying to work magic

like the fool I am

filling up my fish urn

with celestial kingdom spam

Next year it says

look to the big eighteen

The century can smoke and fight

buy a dirty magazine

and if it doesn't come

I'll blow my gol dang stack

provided I don't

tease apart the tesseract

what

2.4357 : 4/7/17 : If At Long Last

If not a vision

if not a voice

if not a riddle

or exactly a choice

If not in books

or ritual

the long project

or the practice habitual

If at long last

not a gift of persistence

then I'm out of ideas

but on goes existence

what

2.3692 : 6/12/15 : Drop (Endless Axis 425/500)

Zero balance

full stop

won't solve this

riddle

with a bass drop

raise my hand

lower my voice

pretend

pretend

It's all a choice

what

2.3563 : 2/3/15 : Bacon (Endless Axis 296/500)

Is this the hammer

will this grindstone

save my bacon

to hell with all of it

I'm dying cannot

put the brake on

Let me spill into

a black and trackless

void of sleep

behold the next slip

and the riddle

there, exquisite, deep

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2.3235 : 3/12/14 : You Need Dark to Show Light (TWoB 3/11)

Said you need dark

to show light

You know that one

kept me up all night

Sounds like an excuse

like a riddle for a fool

Sounds like a copout

Yet it still sounds true

evil isn't good

black isn't white

Even so you need dark

to show light

Someday to understand

how it all works through and through

given the circumstances

I suppose you really do

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2.3131 : 11/28/13 : To Try

Dull but what else

simply to try

Infiltrate the real

flow don't just pass by

Is this it

is it happening

how do you tell

the riddle wraps a mystery

and probably just as well

when it clicks

you don't ask just

groove

when the music

dries up all

all you can do is move

I try to believe

but stumbling blocks

are thick

who put them

all there

Oh not to care

that's the final

trick

what

2.3026 : 08/15/13 : Master

Such a master

when the vultures

cease circling

I appear

have you been fooled

by all my

meekness and confusion

did you almost

come to share my

Good delusion

Every instant

never ceased to be aware

every moment

Oh you know I'm in there

and what now

is a riddle

my joke on the cosmos

why I just

ooze on up and osmose

101 Curious Professions 71: Master

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2.2983 : 07/3/13 : A Scientist

I cast the stalks down

just to laugh at the result

recalling times when

my poor methods were occult

past superstition

the travails of blame and fault

I'll tear down this riddle

why my spirits and my salt

tease out its components

find its valences and peaks

reel it out and graph it

in its valences and peaks

in those long years passing

though I struggled to resist

in my inmost heart

I must remain a scientist

101 Curious Professions 28: Scientist

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2.2525 : 4/1/12 : More Fool

More fool I that I
allow this brooding over
a time that is not and will never be
to usurp the moments that now never
will come again to run away with me
but when there is only this
how it circles in on its own eye
and seeing but itself now
can the thing not wind in in tight and die
and so it is the ancients
as we call them questioned change
how can it be that anything
that's packed so tight can
rearrange
and I have never cracked their case
their riddle still has me stumped
And I could only hope it was not
Sisyphus' hill I humped

what

2.2333 : 09/22/11 : Blueprint

Blueprint for
an efficient home
in a nutshell
for the confused
bereft
and mad as hell
I'll consider
myself
a king it seems
if only I
didn't still
have bad dreams
riddle this
if you're still
following
how the world
of tomorrow
has been hollowing
ever since the
bastards
brought the towers down
I hate to say it
but I need a blueprint
out of this town

what

2.2295 : 08/15/11 : Bees

The concept of durable meaning
speaking to the cosmos and huggin' trees
the vexing of riddles and puzzles
that haunt us with
Oh my God the Bees!
Pilgrim, pilgrim run like hell!
Oh my God, oh my God, Bees!

Is there a God if indifference
Ignoring you personally
oh such a tease
He's your personal savoir faire
In other words figure it out
Oh my God the Bees!
Pilgrim, pilgrim run like hell!
Oh my God, oh my God, Bees!
I wanted to tell you
it was so deep and awesome
but my mouth sadly is full of bees

what

2.2267 : 07/18/11 : Presence of Mind

Can your machines detect
the presence of mind?
I really feel like I am
falling behind
did I think too much
or far too little
should I have dwelt on
some great unsolved riddle
No great discovery
is in my cards
I sift through all my
half formed bolts and shards
looking for my mind's presence
in thought word and deed
but today I didn't find
what I guess I need

what

2.2214 : 05/26/11 : No Answers

No answers regardless
might as well be smarter then
I must dismantle these riddles
one by one
without so much as a portal gun
heaven help every
display of bravado
and how we still succumb
to the lure of El Dorado
but I know a fearsome spell
to paralyze no answer's dread
lay my head down
after all I made this bed

what

2.2103 : 02/04/11 : The Flow

The flow is in the box
and the box is locked
and the nature of the key
is obscure
and I've got a feeling
that the solving of that riddle
is obstructed by the flow
oh that's so pure
by any other name
sounds same same same
doomed or not
knowing the question is wrong
and so the flawed progress oh
so the flawed song

what

2.2050 : 12/13/10 : Mile

I'm not prepared
to go the extra mile
I'm not prepared to serve
you with a smile
I'm not prepared to
let go my hold
on these worries and cares
as I'm getting old
is how I feel
but it is not so smart
I'd like to go
but don't know where to start
or maybe how to learn
I'm really in the middle
of a boredom in a vacancy
inside a banal riddle

what

2.2041 : 12/4/10 : Interesting

Maybe I was more interesting
when I made stupider choices
couldn't there be some exchange
to hold onto those novel voices
and if it all stays dull dull
can I still do I still keep on
another useless riddle
another deep thought to sleep on
But I won't give up much
just to be interesting
and I guess I can keep on if I like
who knows what roads I'm testing
nobody's twisting anyone's arm
no one has a gun to his or her head
It doesn't quite keep me interested
but some strange itch gets fed

what

2.2029 : 11/22/2010 : Human Hive

Imagine being asked so little
a little here a little there
always safe tucked in the middle
no need to shave or cut your hair
the human hive the real thing this time
it all costs a penny and takes five minutes
think up a riddle think up a rhyme
the possibilities are literally infinite
well not literally you're so literal
remembering the library of Babel and its downfall
I get depressed thinking our chances are so pitiful
and never seem to get around to start rolling the ball

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