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

2.5233 : 8/31/19 : Double Deck (The Experiment: 68/100)

Double decade

gone not

forgotten

try to be

philosophical

take the good

with the rotten

hell of a lot

of water flows through

nobody much

came to the 

rescue

and the old film

about the secret

reality

never really

played out

in any eventuality

what

2.5174 : 7/3/19 : Pattern (The Experiment: 9/100)

The pattern long established there

how swiftly could it change

Trying to bind the other tracks

adapt and rearrange

unknowing if the shift it marks

could truly move the dial

The dirty secret of it all

just time to waste and while

I told the pattern chanced upon

may we fix things at the start

but all that stands in every way

know too well in my heart

and in the endless chatter of

this dialog of days

could ever a result true yield

and so the pattern frays

what

2.5119 : 5/9/19 : Net

Will not tell

the secret

of the net

Can't tell yet

if I've lost

the bet

I'm feeling

not so hot

for real

just hope

to break out

of the spiel

what

2.5118 : 5/8/19 : Secret

I'll keep the secret

none will ever hear for years

won't even recognize

though I'll be all ears

familiar faces

but a whole new scene

So many fine years

when love comes springing green

The secret's better

than the one I'd think

starting right here

and oh it goes by in a blink

what

2.5106 : 4/26/19 : Frequent Disasters

Numb in the

extremities

Who the hell

knows

frequent

disasters

or so the

feeling grows

Stay

optimistic

hey my

secret power

I'm going to

bolt it in

this very hour

what

2.5092 : 4/12/19 : The Method

What's the method

going to be

this time around

Who drove

these spikes in

maybe because

I forsook the Big Sound

Too well I

recognize

the second rate

Why I

Keep the secret harder

sanguine in my fate

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

2.5027 : 2/6/19 : Aspirations

Don't even know

what's up

with the aspirations

don't even know

what's in my hand

this ain't the

marshalling of

the light brigade

or anybody

at all's

last stand

how would I

get track of

the aspirations

Where do I file

away my

many frustrations

the secret

doors behind

all my intimations

how would

it ever sum up

my creations

what

2.4899 : 10/1/18 : Subroutine

buried way deep

in this subroutine

the way to

break the loop

I hope you

know what I mean

I'm sure it's waiting

on the secret word

I've gone

ten thousand levels

seeking anyone

who's heard

what

2.4896 : 9/28/18 : Secret

It's got a secret

Annex

a bonus track

likely no one ever

see it

probably best

it's sort of an attack

of peevishness

well and not much

has changed

and yet and still

I refuse to be estranged

what

2.4868 : 8/31/18 : Secret

Another secret

turnaround

is planned

that plot's

run into the ground

and panned

a century

in this stream

all slowly

slowly

losing steam

so find another

power source

always hah

the battery of cource

then suddenly

in the silt

a gleam

what

2.4828 : 7/22/18 : Second Wind

Is there any real chance

at a second wind

getting tired of rolling

and the halfway mark though pinned

on the chart upon the wall

marks no real turning point

maybe uphill twice as steep

all while I still don't get the point

any chance at some renewal

of the sense at least it moves

feeling now like circling tracks

deeply rutted in blank grooves

easy enough to keep on

might be harder to desist

So far still not pulling that thread

but it's on the secret list

what

2.4802 : 6/26/18 : White Noise

Record every bit of it

end to end

So low so fast

load up hit send

reduced in fidelity

sounds just like white noise

call it performance

are ya feelin' me boys

I wouldn't have the slightest

what to do on a stage

or if a wealthy barfly

offered to buy a page

So I feel so lucky

the secret gets kept

and it's like the white noise

grew a story while I slept

 

2.4628 : 1/3/18 : The Secret

Open up the secret

just a tiny bit

long experience says

in the long run it won't ship a whit

And what would it be good for?

if it took a little hold

no longer have a clue of that

if I should be so bold

But I flash my little signal

the secret in plain sight

and maybe one or two

will spot a glimmer

in this world of night

what

2.4624 : 12/30/17 : Reveal

What did I call it?

reveal

none too likely really

or so I now feel

dream of deeper

secrets

but it's all a myth

and I'm not a

millimeter

closer to the pith

what

2.4554: 10/21/17 : This Way Comes

Is it right to let the boy in on the mystery

of sadness and loss

of the ladder of compromise

and the dark cost

let a dead man choose the moments

no idea what's truly heard

this way comes the dark man

the story, the word

there have been other hard times

who can ever say which is harder

this I didn't see coming

overrich but rickety larder

In my own dark secret world

I'm bartering for hope

not sure what I'm offering

fearing all I'll get is enough rope

what

2.4514 : 9/11/17 : Inside Jokers

If I try to break the code

it just comes out as self-parody

and even the inside jokers

don't quite get the hilarity

You can ditch the fake smiles

because it's simply you young buck

I'm just trapped in the box

and the lid is well stuck

and this wheel has been around

this in a thousand pairs

at least I mostly kept the secret

mostly sidestep the stares

plenty like to poke mean fun

at sad cases like mine

and the jokers running things

well they still ain't cracked mine

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

2.4453 : 7/12/17 : Patterner

I'll tear this pattern

down with this stark hand

no deals to wheel

no more a band

the symmetry

that mocks my rest

to see my sights

my only test

to be revealed

the patterner

the palette I'll sand

flat and clear

and the colors I hid

deep and reckoning

after all there's yet

a secret beckoning

what