2.5222 : 8/20/19 : Sparks (The Experiment: 57/100)

Stand back and let me think

every once and a while

I'll create some sparks

I've got a serious puzzle to solve

it's not just wordplay

no time for larks

clench my fists, screw up my eyes

shake a little like

my tongue pokes out

Don't interrupt me don't make a sound

Don't break in to to ask me

What I'm thinking about

Putting it together the lock the light

the season the stone

a promise long deferred

keep searching somewhere a

lock a box

there is a treasure to balance

every loss incurred

what

2.4994 : 1/4/19 : Knuckle

Paring it even further

to the knuckle

of the bone

Nobody is looking down

for wisdom in that phone

well known it's all

marking time

don't think about for what

they caught me gazing

raptly at 

a plain unblemished stone

what

2.4733 : 4/18/18 : Patience

Find a way to a

new way to measure

patience in burden

a lesson a treasure

try to believe that

here toiling under

is striking the path

not the lash for some blunder

I'm not very good

at waiting in strength

self possession

Somehow at some length

Maybe my coin will turn

patience will flower

and settle with this stone

and unlock its power

what

2.4675 : 2/19/18 : Little Nothing

I like that

little nothing

no excuses

no blushing

no explanation

no promise

no plan

upon another

not one stone shall stand

what

2.4523 : 9/20/17 : Envy Stones

Once I felt defiant

these days I'm not so sure

the ground is very trodden

not much left you'd call pure

closing my eyes I only

see a hundred envy stones

and everything everything

I cannot wring

from my own bones

the show doesn't slow down

the players get youger

whet thin and whittled

by a differet sort of hunger

And if I had to bet

I'd probably try to hedge

and the whisper in the back

I must be losing my edge

what

2.4437 : 6/26/17 : Money Magnet

Money magnet I

will make you mine

grail stone

I'm going to drop your line

don't have an interest

in immortality

but money's always

been a friend to me

not supposed to say it

to ask is gauche

I'm going to climb that ladder

like a tower of approach

and fix my magnet

to the tippy top

summer again

here goes another crop

what

2.4419 : 6/8/17 : English

I'll put tons

of English

on this

stone's throw

skip skip

and once

it sinks

I'll know

what

2.4301 : 2/10/17 : Blue Light

I should be smart

and just give up the fight

whisky and water

and unreal blue light

find better patterns

settings for my stones

some lovely intricate

channel for these bones

that never quite get

clothed in proper flesh

always the bleeding chunks

not fair but fresh

hearken too much back

to bad old ways

I should give up

shut every door on those days

what

2.4294 : 2/3/17 : Confluence

Whence the quest sense

dimmed by dark times

old school bad guys

and their boring boring crimes

why do I feel responsible

dumb and miniscule

not an ounce of influence

no change agent

just more floating

detritus

swept in the confluence

that's not helping

either

still wrestling the stone

a lot of us at it

yet we feel alone

what

2.4217 : 11/18/16 : Stone Age

Knocked back to my

stone ages

power failure

no point in rages

call it a vacation

from the damn tubes

wringing hands

over the wrath of the rubes

worry over Caeser

and the devil's due

the pitiable failure

of my weak kung fu

but at least maybe

I'll make up some rest

since it just keeps coming harder

and I haven't been my best

what

2.4192 : 10/24/16 : Polls

Polling up

and polling down

quite a

rolla coasta

for a working clown

the joint got

stone crazy

while my back

was turned

start shoveling

and bailing

and pray

it's not

all burned

what

2.4137 : 8/30/16 : Business

All the business

crowds out art

try hard to supplement

the losses with more heart

wringing on this stone

with a wretched abandon

scarcely thinking 

anymore

what I'm trying to lay a

hand on

what

2.4081 : 7/5/16 : Premise

don't want long thinking

this old premise is stinking

I won't scrape that reef again

deeper channel cotter pin

and a half shank and a cleat

this new premise can't be beat

what they thought was

their own game

blew their stones

right on the frame

what

2.3988 : 4/3/16 : Lotta Lotta

Whole lotta lotta

but I'll just say

hey yeah

One thing worked out

and another

thing or two

may, yeah

top or bottom

I'm a rock steady

send me a sign

if you think

your teacher's ready

for me

what

2.3952 : 2/27/16 : Moon

Just another rock

I'll never make

So many trips

most never take

Somewhere though

between Mars and the Moon

a steaming silver teapot

and a silver soon

what

2.3951 : 2/26/16 : Vault

Vault the usual

impediment

Only one way

to stay from

sinking in the sediment

keep moving

till you hit solid rock

quick or still

it's all tick tock

tick tock

what

2.3852: 11/19/15 : Stripes

No choice but to

steal nectar as the whip cracks

the curse of

this dimension

get no take backs

So I will stride

this path I’m thrown to

like I mean it

and I own to

Re-up

dig in

and earn me some more stripes

leave a battered corpse

for all you

stone hypes

what

2.3758 : 8/17/15 : Hamster (Endless Axis 491/500)

All I just want

is to keep polishing

tiny stones

I learned you were

2 years my elder

that one got

me in my bones

I and should

break out break out

form this

hamster track

but I like it when

if spins up fast

and trips me up

and hurls me back

what

2.3682 : 6/2/15 : Stone Cold (Endless Axis 415/500)

Look at you again the rush and the cut down

another notch aother another scotch another shutdown

What does it look like through such a cold eye

What can it fee like to be such a cold guy

To be stone cold

I name the dark mind

in your hand you hold

and the method of your cold mind

Some come out of the cold

but all leave you behind

Look at you again the bloody minded wait

they must have raised you on a cold estate

and what's running in your veins I don't want to know

But I'm pretty sure it's bitter and cold as new snow

Because you're stone cold...

what

2.3636 : 4/17/15 : Foolish (Endless Axis 369/500)

Another cold stone

dropped falls

to the bottom of my heart

Again again

it seems impossible to start

Where do you take them

every bright spark

why do you leave us

So much dark

how am I supposed to

write back into light

am I still expected

to be putting up a fight

I listen listen

for a hint you're somewhere

many think I'm foolish

it's a thought I mostly share

what