2.5255 : 9/22/19 : Long Walk (The Experiment: 90/100)

Seeing hints of

one long journey ending

these parallel strands

Can get mind bending

Superstition makes me

want to see a turning point

the next day's sameness

I'll surely pay in every joint

Cultivate in the kingdom

maybe made sense way back

A couple hundred B.C. man

What would you make

of this time track?

The clever gadgets omnipresent

far too many

to keep as uncarved blocks

like a hell of complexity

see no solution

but a hundred long walks

what

2.3652 : 5/3/15 : Search the Sky (Endless Axis 385/500)

Just apply a frame

the Sunday box

pews just the same

now something looser

ceilings high

Still I still I

Search the sky

Sought for traces

secret signs

Some called

superstitious anodynes

sought techniques

to amplify

still and yet

I search the sky

what

2.3347 : 7/2/14 : The Battlefield (Endless Axis 80/500)

Life is a battle

death is a journey

the way that I see it

I'm no rules attorney

Everyone got angry

shook a fist

when I said he won his battle

escaped into the mist

fearing death

is a superstition

getting off the battlefield's

a holy mission

it does not require death

but you must accept it

that was my secret

until now I kept it

what

2.3291 : 5/7/14 : Negative Space (Endless Axis 24/500)

Yay upbeat prose

Yay outline I'm drawing

negative space around

this plank I'm sawing

not quite a snapshot

of the inner state

but that's kind of the point

and it's sincerely great

yay for the shattering

of superstition

yay for refinement

of this moral mission

I put this to you

if the pith's unspoken

am I lying?

Is the contract broken?

what

2.3201 : 2/6/14 : Jack of All Ports

No signs, no visions

no relief in any superstitions

Yet it seems that you

refuse to sell me out

impossible, invisible

every day fearing the rout

craving routine

and so out of sorts

fed up with the charge

to be jack of all ports

is this an adventure

or aquatic train wreck

is this terribly clever

or a shambles in dreck?

what

2.3192 : 1/28/14 : Thaw

Have to be satisfied to start

with a thaw without

a change in temperature

feel free to scoff and doubt

another inward thing

called it a mental state

call it a spiritual thaw

roll my eyes mutter great

a superstitious scrap

said it was two years hence

the ship the thunderclap

the pole to vault the fence

want it to all melt now

none of this bitter wait

maybe within I'll cultivate

myself a fluid state

what

2.3188 : 1/24/14 : Magic Number

Grant me release from superstition

Oh great spirit of the heavens

for I have forsaken honey

for I have forgone all leavens

Grant me just one lucky number

One key to the rest of all of it

One key to the damn door out of here

One pole for to vault this wall of shit

Shouldn't I just cheer up up already

stop acting as if I've had a hard time

acting like I deserve lucky breaks

acting like it's my lucky card time

there's no luck and there's no magic

nothing's meant to be, nothing's special

everything running on the same crazy engine

every day potentially one fresh hell

what

2.3147 : 12/14/13 : White Flag

Is that a battle cry

or a white flag

we're all mixed up

by the white stag

sure fairytales sure

superstition

but the longing persists

and dreams of sweet fruition

what

2.3133 : 11/30/13 : Just World

To reject superstition

must I allow there is no just world

pity my poor cranium

against that blank brick wall I heaved and hurled

am I an unrefined hick

can't fathom justice not delivered from on high

and injustice is manifest

and our ideals seem twelve times further than the sky

the worm turns again

move fool I used to think it mattered which way

another purge of the system

and all superstitious it is for a fresh start I'll pray

what

2.2990 : 07/10/13 : 555

I'm partial to sixes, nines, and twelves

I used to say the answers

Could be on the shelves

I know a thing or two about nineteen

there was as song

oh - it was just like a bright silver screen

between five and thirty four

If someone asks me what

the number's for

I'll say I can't say

but I've got your lucky one

drop a little silver

and I'll net you a plucky one

thirteen seven

got no superstition

but a pretty little spiel

about superposition

quantum uncertainty

and similar hooey

still at five five five

it all goes kablooey

at five five five

all these fates

will line up

and deposit a new

taste

in my dusty cup

101 Curious Professions 35: Numerologist

what

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

what

2.2772 : 12/04/12 : Set

How do you really get
outside the set in ways
a million dollar question sure
but then who pays
past superstition
superficial meaning
such a slow slow harvest
of wisdom I'm gleaning
I would like to please myself
that's no crime
I would like to tell my tale
it's my dime
If no one wants to listen
I'll find a way to cope
as I still grope for the edges
well I've still got hope

what

2.2685 : 9/8/12 : Any Work Will Do

It cannot be that any
work will do
surely the shovel
digs me no closer to you
It cannot be
but I don't know how to choose
When I feel no matter
what I ever do I lose
It must be wrong
It must be all on me
Some stark command
that I refuse to see
and is that just my
brutal superstitious mind
a useless faith that
is both dumb and blind
nothing but killing time
and getting through
If so I guess that
any work will do

what

2.2637 : 7/22/12 : Brainless

Having secured the high ground
our wise brigade
Is all het up
to drum on up
one hell of a parade
the new age slogan
that makes us so hale and hearty
is the unironic token
of the brainless optimism party
We're getting robot cars
a bullet train that spans the nation
We're ending global warming
and we still all get a great vacation
we're getting rid of crime and legalizing weed
we're even gonna put
the eggheads on a cure for greed
we're gonna go to Mars
and sends robots to Jupiter
We're tearing superstition down
and raising up a lucid cheer
nobody wants war
everyone wants peace
we're kicking down your stupid smack
hell yeah we bought
this age a new lease

what

2.1842 : 5/19/10 : Status

Everybody's checking the status
It seems to be okay
knock on wood for now
check a little deeper another day
not what I expected no
Guess that it never is
always these reminders
Not my time, all His
Thank you for the status check in
thanks for asking after
hope in not too much time
I'll refer to it all with laughter

what

2.1582 : 9/1/09 : Cosmos

Oh the Cosmos, oh, oh the Cosmos

call it curiosity

so many things meant

something to me

prejudice and superstition

that isn’t all there is to it

yet there is something here

a mission

don’t ask me to be your messenger

your bastard

I’ve been hung out

Look at this another

aching night

sick anxious

worn and strung out

but I smile thinking

about the Cosmos

and every crazy thing in it

no matter how long I hold on

five hundred thousand hours

of contemplation

will not show me more

than a tiny bit

what

2.968 : 12/27/07 : Placebo Effect

If you can just believe in it

If only you suspend your disbelief

this pill will set you all right

and steal away your troubles like a thief

make it red and yellow

make its flavor slightly bitter

capsule filled with hopeless hope

drop it with no babysitter

pity the placebo dependent on my faith

I don’t believe in anything tonight

I do my rituals and don’t really know why

I still believe I’ll know when things are right

what

2.947 : 12/6/07 : Relic

No relic’s gonna turn the tide

the tables are stacked

too heavy to slide

when the ship tips

when you feel that punch in the gut

I guess you’re probably gonna beat it,

eh what?

Not gonna cast any

more runes or bones

no yarrow stalks

and no holy stones

This one I can do purely

just by stealth

pry the lid off

this pot and share the wealth

what

2.935 : 11/24/07 : You Again

May I never have to write you down again

May I never need to speak your name

this is the second method

this is how it is when I play the game

Am I singing a song of you, again?

It’s true it’s a story of my whole life

now I am different, now things are better

with my child my home my wife

So I’ll treat you like just a fairy tale

that will vanish with morning dreams

the ghosts and gremlins I will knock away

and send them scrambling up the beams

Yeah I’ll talk large, yeah I’ll be a braggart

knowing tomorrow is a mystery

I’ll stand against your better judgment

I’ll stand despite all contradicting history

And say so long to you again

and say I’ll see you when I do

if we meet again why we shall smile

if not I’ll fondly think of you

what

2.895 : 10/15/07 : Chasing Transition

3,086 : 20 ?

Chasing transition, transcendence

the same inquisition, dependence

on influx of data the witching hour

the players the haters the hideous power

I’m not on the track here not even close

I try to get back to the critical dose

that rap in the background I’ve heard before

a dismal upbeat sound an open door

chasing translation the upload trip

standing my station on the battling tip

no idea what form the fight will take

stay sharp and keep warm stay on the make

wait for the call superstition said

no plan at all but to keep my head

what