2.5269: 10/6/19 : Third Act

Can't remember

if I've dwelt on it

before

looking for a door

If I may say it

without fact

wondering if there's

any such thing

as an American

Third Act

Hard time caring

or believing

too damn early

to just

stall at last

Checkout

Well still the

next dumb

come on artist

pops a head out

will be the one

I deck out

what

2.5072 : 3/23/19 : Myths

Way too old

for origin myths

just keeping up

skipping over the rifts

hoping that I just

need a rest

give me three years

without another test

some seem marked

have trajectory

guess I know too well

What you expect of me

move by the age of myths

and onto the parthenon

dialectic on the steps

next the treaty of the new Trianon

what

2.4966: 12/7/18 : A Trice

Least favorite part

And not much of a start

but it will all fade in a trice

Anyway so why fret

nothing more will I get

and you don't have to tell me twice

that I got here myself

the same dumb guy shelf

volume on volume of dreck

Self-help and heroics

needs a dose of the stoics

or you know

One more throw of the dice

what

2.4958 : 11/29/18 : Knack

Why am I feeling

a little bit sick

Whatever the knack

of the thing

I lost the trick

and oh I'm floating

about along three feet

and no clue of

destination

and ain't that a kick?

what

2.4833 : 7/27/18 : 3 Yr. Grind

I thought to plot

the three year grind

different this time

some shift in my mind

poke my head up

when I'm pushing fifty

ain't time's relentless

nature just nifty

one plan for the body

one plan for the call

one plan on earthly power

who else wants to have it all?

one plan for nature's sphere

dear to my heart

and the big one for the great axis

spirit song glory art

what

2.4783 : 6/7/18 : Little Shop

Just want a mild obsession

to found a little shop

A place to eke out the remainder

come out nowhere near the top

likely well past halfway

closer to two thirds

today I'd say this latter stretch

is strictly for the birds

what

2.4520 : 9/17/17 : AXIS

I counted out about three years

I counted out a clean dozen

And if it strikes you as an easy road

I'm telling you, cousin

I made it all about the mirror

the window and the door

beats working endlessly

at telling what it's all good for

and at the point

I was ready to say

I'd just been at it too long

I found I could not

turn my back

or walk away from the

endless axis of song

You may think you got it

all figured out at line one or two

maybe you had me by the

introduction

and said to yourself oh

I know all about you

well you didn't at that

for the axis is great and mighty

and if you find me at my

leisure

I'll demonstrate that I don't

take it lightly

what

2.4483 : 8/11/17 : Early Shift

Get in an early shift

on the third unpaid job

no sure what it's good for

besides flapping my gob

Probably no essayist

ever going to sing its praises

but I guess I own it outright

and still the stack raises

oh I did it again

went and inverted the bottle

have to break it in need

to let out all this wreck and dottle

what

2.4471 : 7/30/17 : Down the Stairs

Catch myself bargaining

I must be

grieving my specialness

never broke through

guess that I failed that test

What am I haggling for

some second or third act

might as well

yowl like a cat

down the stairs

that's a fact

what

2.4363 : 4/13/17 : To Disrupt

Any saying's been said

and twice and three

the losing count

that's my story

a tar an ichor

the thing stewed

in it's own foul liquor

no one wishes

for this cup

nothing much

here to disrupt

wish for a new thing

out of the blue

that wishing is

and old thing too

what

2.4325 : 3/6/17 : The Plot

Mighta lost the plot too

far back to find the trail

again do we tray to make

or find by hammer thread lens or sail

many think it's hardly a real thing

bound by book cross rope rail or ring

but I loved it so

just can't say goodbye

I swear I saw it far off

once with my good eye

So what it explains the chaos

say it don't exist

Say that's just more rising action

know I've got a list

play it one two three

when I'm down by four

for the breath of a rumor

I'll get up off the floor

what

2.4129 : 8/22/16 : Status Update

Everybody's asking

for status update

Kidding nobody is

asking for that

cooked up a million

got about 7

2 or three are me

wearing a hat

I'm going to

gee I don't know

I didn't forget

just nothing there

at least I'm at large

at least I got pages

at least there's a number

at least there's still air

what

2.4068 : 6/22/16 : Candidate

Candidate

for the long box

I did OK

got off

enough rocks

is it halfway

a fifth or third

What else to say

check it: word

what

2.3848: 11/15/15 : Trio

I'd give a trio

paired threes

hand in glove

there's no way

no way at all

without unconditional love

what

2.3845: 11/12/15 : Majestic

A big deal fella

invokes the thrice majestic

Hell I'm always so

far ahead

I get future whiplash

snap back like elastic

What else to say

He deserves to be the big deal

me I don't

You say if I just believe

I'd reach to that golden fruit

but I don't

so I won't

what

2.3764 : 8/23/15 : Think Positive (Endless Axis 497/500)

Got to

think positive

got two or three

as still we

have to live

get through

your spree

what

2.3733 : 7/23/15 : Trio (Endless Axis 466/500)

Trio of afterthought

trio of error

wouldn't you like to hear

my own small trilogy of terror

Scarcely think now

of my own flesh

but I worry at these eons

and how fine they thresh

what

2.3713 : 7/3/15 : Toff (Endless Axis 446/500)

Rise early leave

the messageman off

Take your instructions

from another sort of toff

I'll be a sort of servant

to a sort of aristocracy

anything to opt out

of this present bureaucracy

Hi ho the messageman

surely already employed

by another more toff than I

and I don't lie, I'm overjoyed

no half measure this

I'm locking down the count

and three days time will note

to what my launch may yet amount

what

2.3595 : 3/7/15 : The Writer (Endless Axis 328/500)

The writer has a plan now

one two three

and kapow

The mission is a map see

and roll it

comes up craps, see

and roll it

probably come up

nothing

still working, huh

here's

the thing

You'll make of it

what you will

if you decide

the kill pill

no I'll make of it

water

the highest good

the blotter

what

2.3448 : 10/11/14 : Moratorium (Endless Axis 181/500)

Declare Moratorium

three day cease fire

to prepare

to go under

to recover you inquire

do I think something will

come different

the other side

nobody knows

my guess would be

it'll be the start

of a long ride

what