2.5023 : 2/2/19 : Lucky Boy

Short detour

on the way to joy

nothing serious

such a lucky boy

you're a lucky girl

cause I'm pure winner

how it's all turning

for this old sinner

what

2.5007 : 1/17/19 : Pour

Open every passage

pour whatever in

every other artist

perfect now on never sin

never selfish never jealous

just thrilled in the pour

no filter no discernment

no principle but more

no principle but hacking it

no goal but pack it in

try to stay elusive

maybe get it back again

what

2.4815 : 7/9/18 : Settle

Settle in

like I'm born to scrub

in a stolen moment

pathetic little dub

worrying about

my unruly tongue

pray one more outburst

goes unsung

pray the morningmen

carry off my leavings

dwindling sins

of various resleevings

pray the next hallway

ends in a door

oh the sorry little prayers

I settle for

what

2.4738 : 4/23/18 : Talk Back

Should I talk back

rather just get out

not a speck

of interest in yak yak

there's no discourse

just dueling rhetoric

and me silently

praying to get off the stack

for my sins

I got competence

and a big square hole

someone else, the hammer

I need to lock down

get to real planning

If I've ever going to get

out from under of this yammer

what

2.4636 : 1/11/18 : PIN

Could I for once pinpoint

the moment

Easy slide

into the

strange tides

what the moving hand

hovers over

and elides

a thousand sins of omission

leaving just the way

I'll find a garden of it

down here

and there I'll stay

what

2.4576 : 11/12/17 : Trip

Trip tripping again

lost my place

with a pen

So it happens

sometimes

these aren't sins

these aren't crimes

Oh who am I

trying to convince

and what the hell am

I trying to call

evidence

what

2.4302 : 2/11/17 : Backlash

Put myself before

the backlash

again and again

no weapon but my pen

You'd think I like the lash

but I don't I swear

it's just I get stretched

and hours can get wretched

and I've got nothing to declare

nothing gets me excited

not sainthood or sinning

the bad guys still winning

next wave not even sighted

what

2.4070 : 6/24/16 : Back to Real

Lottery thinking

again again

fairly stupid

if not a sin

try to force mind

back to real

but I'll tell you how I feel

I thought it would be

oh, automatic

I'd rise so easy

above the static

thought it would be a ride

instead this white knuckle surf

on a red ink tide

what

2.4042 : 5/27/16 : 12 Sins

About 12 sins short

no smoke no drank

no rule no rank

much too old

somehow got dull

still won't bend to

glass half full

want my sins back

can't hack the heat

cold slapped and jacked

and way up queer street

what

2.4005 : 4/20/16 : Fakes

Fakes and substitutes

messing up my

resolutes

the never agains

these foolishnesses

not quite sins

but just not to think

sooner or later

the feelings sink

and denial fails

and I'll be back on

those resolution

rails

what

2.3913 : 1/19/16 : The Material

Stretch a hands-breadth of

the material

over the yardarm

Start with a damn low bar

try to do less harm

how on earth did you

get to this wretched state again

Alas the material

led me into sin

but I'm getting up

and I'm dusting off

and missteps or not

somehow I'll shake this cough

And bow once

to the minister ethereal

and dive bold into

this new material

what

2.3911 : 1/17/16 : Stutter

Stutter for sure but

I'm hardly stopping

man told me to jump

but I'm barely hopping

been a solid innings

since I blanked three days

sludge right up

through a self-reference haze

and pray for relief

despite my sins

and pray for peace

in the midst of these dins

what

2.3837: 11/4/15 : My Sins

And for my sins

a million forking paths

all claustrophobic

dead ends

You do the maths

figure who's selling

what really gets bought

only one

clear shot

on the trail you sought

what

2.3785 : 9/13/15 : Every Sin

Under my own name

every sin

mostly sophistry

The world within

Surely I'll break out

in a year or five

talk about miles to go

and getting out alive

what

2.3759 : 8/18/15 : Positivity Experiment (Endless Axis 492/500)

Not experimental

talented or tight

no good excuse

for what keeps me up

all night

nobody looking

to collaborate

Why do I work

to prop up this blank slate

end of the

positivity experiment

is nigh

What could the conclusion

be except I

guess I'm not that guy

what could the conclusion

be but

try try again

then blame it on

the Devil

and original sin

what

2.3414 : 9/7/14 : To Break This (Endless Axis 147/500)

To break this

a shift in perspective

or attitude

or maybe a detective

or beatitude

or maybe both at once

a sort of

noir Jesus

to roust a clue

for this poor dunce

poor sinner

of faith: little

poor little here

poor little there

poor jot and tittle

to break this

Swept all

to the floor

throw this mind

wide open

shouting

more still more

what

2.3316 : 6/1/14 : Not Repeat (Endless Axis 49/500)

The smile on my face is for

the things that I need not repeat

things that rankle things that bore

and all that knocked me off my feet

the sunshine in my heart

in knowing there's no going back

what was construed in art

What rust can't stain nor blackhats hack

now that I have arrived

think on what never to repeat again

the hill up which I strived

risking dissolution, mortal sin

What I will not repeat

by nature you'll just have to guess

the saying ties up neat

though true here on the ground it's quite a mess

what

2.3217 : 2/22/14 : Rectify

Greed

lust

envy

and spite

so unenlightened

so little right

Every turn

another flaw

to rectify

at lest there's

plenty to stay busy

as the days fly by

what

2.3115 : 11/12/13 : Log

Do I gotta keep

the captain's log again

to try to

bootstrap out

of this dull sin

of seeking solace

in the spit warm flow

the mess of tubes

the dim electron glow

Effect the log-in

set the secret code

praying at last

I'll tap the mother lode

I know the symptom's

not the real disease

if you think up a cure

do log it please

what

2.3097 : 10/25/13 : Dollar Origami

How many ways

to fold that little page

I'm up to my hips

in thoughts of sin's wage

Dollar origami

fold my way out of this cul de sac

this shaky tack this back

to back this lousy world of smack

what