2.4933 : 11/4/18 : Talent

Ghosts of raw talent

from before I was born

like I need the reminder

well I won't yield to scorn

not to be claiming

I'm getting anyplace

While more of my grin

falls out of my face

I reckon they'll patch me

back up again yet

like I patch up these bits

just the best I can get

what

2.4873 : 9/5/18 : Accept

Accept? Or kick

Am I still on this schtick?

It'll all be forgotten

in seven long years

that's a trick to make me look up

pull a wry smile

throw the book up

and hope it's not

a joke so stale

it truns to wry tears

what

2.4748 : 5/3/18 : Deez Nuts

Alla deez nuts

aint' gonna stop burning

alla deez nuts

ain't gonna stop yearning

You want a solution

for the typical yutz

you gotta contend

with alla deez nuts

go try to fool them

nuts get wiley

get them in the feels

nuts just get smiley

preach like an angel

hear LOL butts

you gotta contend

with alla deez nuts

don't know if they're

the sickness or symptoms

mostly not villains

mostly not pimp bums

lotta cheap johns though

and I'm such a putz

still thinking I can talk

to alla deez nuts

what

2.4607 : 12/13/17 : Enjoy the Fantasy

Already mad

but will I ever get even

think about blowing up

think about leaving

Piss on my desk

Fly both free birds high

goodbye fellow fools goodbye

Enjoy the fantasy

While you may

Some seven hours hence

Sure enough another day

And I'm eating what I'm served

with a dead false smile

and that's all I'll have to say

for a while

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

2.4458 : 7/17/17 : Rain Symphony

Rain symphony forever familiar

never remotely the same

nature who will outlive us all

forever wild and never tame

they hunted water in the desert

they prayed for fire to melt the ice

and in the age of heat and more heat

they counted it as gold in price

we'll pray the mighty river does not dry

we'll fight them trying to pipe it to Vegas

and because irony never dies

in many times and places the rain will plague us

I'll tip my head and smile wide

you'll hear no doleful din from me

just the soft tapping on my skin

in the falling of the rain symphony

what

2.4442 : 7/1/17 : Rush

Time to not rush now

try not to gush now

brief spell of attention

no great need to mention

I beat that old list up

So pleased now I mist up

It's all but pinned down

can't turn this grin down

what

2.4434 : 6/23/17 : Excuses

Excuses are the coal

we're burning down time with

I thought with you for once

I'd get down to the pith

and we did oh we did

and what a strange revelation

discover it in the dirt, Lord

Discover it on vacation

you can work a long time

and walk some heavy miles

how is it you can always

give me the smiles

Even when I'm burning coal

from both sides of the lump

you best believe when it comes calling

I'm gonna be on the jump

what

2.4359 : 4/9/17 : Full Nerd

Shoulda turned inward

shoulda gone full nerd

Had a full foot in

found weed and got thin

can't overwrite that

Sourcing a new hat

just find me my just grind

I'll grin and go in blind

what

2.4090 : 7/14/16 : Rambling

Leave my river crossing rambling

in the little book

rain or shine you know me

I can always cook

So take a peek in as

I stir up this pot

Because you know I got a lot

and I serve it hot

Surprise some thought

my rambling days had dried up

some days thought myself

these circuits were fried up

With this and that

up my sleeve

a little half smile

take my leave

and ramble on and up

turn tramp baton and cup

what

2.4039 : 5/24/16 : Grease

Anything at all to grease this skid

Oh no you didn't: oh hell yes I did

I'm through I'm not down being sick no more

This time it's me that's showing you the door

Give me an inch and ounce I've got the time

this joint could use a little grit and grime

Your face could use a little bit less smirk

I guess that smile'll falter when you feel the jerk

I guess you won't be laughing when you see my name

upon that board that tells you that I won your game

with a bit of grease of course and work for days

I'm not feeling half done better hope it pays

what

2.4016 : 5/1/16 : Ordnance

Shut the door

on the mad cash

So what so what now?

Got no

secret stash

got no moonlight gig

annuity

wish to hell

You were done

getting through to me

give me the angle

the ordnance

the target and

shell weight

it's all drones anyhow

might as well pay freight

sense must start

before you pull the cord

And seldom smiles

on those

bound to the sword

what

2.4010 : 4/25/16 : Match

Trying to find the match

to strike

light this pile up

dope like an

electric bike

and hitch a smile up

it's easy riding

a friendly lie

and I'll meet a

holy match up

in every cast die

what

2.4000 : 4/15/16 : The Screw

Maybe then the screw

back a minute

Guess I've got to

be a bear and

grin it

up to all my

fellow desk pilots

all while I'm

cooking holy math

and dreaming riots

been long under the screw

My head feels too big

hardly half a ton of pressure

what the heck's

this gig?

Sure that soon enough

you'll dig it in the next round

and I'll scrap as always

till i get drilled in the ground

what

2.3868: 12/05/15 : Complete Surrender

Complete surrender

before you

smash up anymore of

my toys

getting pointed now

trashing options

choice by choice

guess I better

keep the day job

guess I better

blast harden the smile

and give up asking

all I ever get's

another mile

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

2.3774 : 9/2/15 : Piling

Fooled myself

I was stacking

I was really

just piling

there's a name

for this disease

but I guess

I'm still smiling

H-A-P-P-Y

well I wouldn't venture quite

So far but maybe

Some kind of

contentment in sight

what

2.3700 : 6/20/15 : Permission (Endless Axis 433/500)

Should have known tonight

came with stiff competition

Will I ever feel

I've got permission

just to be

not to say

not to always

with no everyday

I passed it

off again

Somewhere behind

this coffin grin

what

2.3604 : 3/16/15 : Surprise (Endless Axis 337/500)

Okay this rough diamond

and the thing forgotten

such as what was buried

and what marked the spot then

And the protocol

forgetting pushed back 20 spaces

and buried to the neck

in dull edge cases

remind me of how

to ratchet up a grin

with my shoulders back

and a nice high chin

and not to ball up my fists

or roll my eyes

and pretend it's all delightful

Such a swell surprise

what

2.3589 : 3/1/15 : Gone Indie (Endless Axis 322/500)

I don't want to bitch

about the box all the time now

better take my bitter pill

When I hear the early chime now

Smile and declare

it to be very sweet

highlight these ugly thoughts

and delete delete delete

Soon I'll have some new kink

in the feedline in hand, hey

the devil made the show

hell somehow he made the band pay

Shoulda gone indie

Shoulda left the contract blank

blech the box but scratch talks

and me I'm down to make bank

what