2.2837 : 02/07/13 : Ode to the Poetry Magnets I Found Under the Fridge

To eat -
or
Are to tree

what

2.2836 : 02/06/13 : Chipping

How long can I
get away with
chipping in this
sorry way?
See no real
reason I can't
just repeat it
every day
better than
the speaking of
What's been said
and said and said
better than
to reveal
what is whirling
round in my head

what

2.2835 : 02/05/13 : Telephone

Put my finger into
the dictionary
put my finger into the good book
in the age of the intelligent telephone
It's anachronistic but let's take a look
I could roll up for
the twenty two volumes
pick any Labor Day you like
feel like it would do as well
as thinking more
feels like I'm lobbing fouls
just dodging that third strike
give me a mission damn it
I have not been called up
I've been waiting by the telephone
I read it's just another
symptom of the syndrome
but I want to hear it straight
from you alone

what

2.2834 : 02/04/13 : No Answers

Maybe there are no answers
Maybe that's the core of everything
Maybe answer is a misnomer
Maybe there's just the bell and the ring
Maybe truly nobody has got it
Maybe everybody is a fake
Maybe there's nothing wrong with it
Maybe nothing is at stake

what

2.2833 : 02/03/13 : Play

too dull
not enough play
bad paradigm
but I don't know the way
to break it
and remake it
if that's even the model
and cannot tell
the axle
from the throttle

what

2.2832 : 02/02/13 : Minutes

What was that thing you said
about minutes
and revisions
past getting all worked up
over century-old visions
but I thought that I was
onto something
out of my own long ago
and fit for 2020 thoughts
though where I'l be then
I don't know

what

2.2831 : 02/01/13 : Produce

If one is too bitter to produce
and if one can't get past
oh what's the use
When can I stop
When can I stop
waiting for the drop
put away
every childish thing
that tune plucked out upon
an slack old string
when can I stop
when can I halt
I already said it was all my fault

what

2.2830 : 01/31/13 : Beautiful Things

For a minute my mind
was filled with beautiful things
I didn't hold onto it
and that plumb always swings
hold still hold still
bring to rest straight down
resist the urge to vent my extreme
humors on this town

what

2.2829 : 01/30/13 : Nothing Nice

Nothing nice
to talk about
no nice trips
no going out
cold as hell
and no good plans
no spirit guides
no superfans
and sick as hell
of this same old
and no surprise
after the fold

what

2.2828 : 01/29/13 : From Within

From within
the radiant
peeling back
your wax shell
on a gradient
the metamorphosis
proceeds
how differs this from
transformation?
ends ways and heeds
the paradox that
simply everything
must be ordained
proceeding from within
reverent
and unrestrained

what

2.2827 : 01/28/13 : How Do We Begin Again

How do we
begin again
it's the best question
since original sin
the question of that story
is where did you go
the real twist
they all missed
is even God didn't know
the moment we hide
from the truth
is the beginning of the end
of sweet brief days
of paradise
and since that ship sailed 'round
that bend
we have to begin again
do it a hundred times a day
the trick to how is dull as dirt
and just might
steal your breath away

what

2.2826 : 01/27/13 : Sickness

the sickness
hit again
could not
get it in
I said that
it was done
will this time
be the one
I doubt it
but I have to
act the part
it makes me laugh, too

what

2.2825 : 01/26/13 : Advantage

Take advantage of the moment
also it beats thinking
hey at least I'm not smoking
hey at least I'm not drinking
Hey I don't know what I'm doing
Or what fate might be imbuing
and I don't feel like
the advantage is mine
and you told me to live in it
well sure for you that sounds fine
But I have been taken advantage of
by my short sighted ways
but in absence of a better plan
I guess this odd duck stays

what

2.2824 : 01/25/13 : Building

I've got a jones to get building
but get tangled in the run up
if this were a movie
or a video game (hah)
why I'd just get my gun up
and shoot my way
through the obstacles
Shoot my way through the choices
so much better than working things out
and hearing all the voices
you may say that's no way for building
you have to choose and take your pick
I'll say whoa look out behind you
then shoot right through your rhetoric
but I've got no gun and it's true
You must choose what's too be built
but you still need bricks and mortar
and they charge you to the hilt
and if you don't have the coin to pay
you won't build anything
but same old castles in the air
at my age that's worse than nothing

what

2.2823 : 01/24/13 : Breaker

Here take the breaker
of this string
of my neglecting
the resting
and the silence
but oh never the reflecting
disbelieving
in the journey
of the partisans and spies
sad about
my sad companion
in it myself
up to my eyes

what

2.2822 : 01/23/13 : Heroes

Can I get a ride from someone
on my hero's journey
I can help out with gas
I you want to burn one I
can probably score a little
I don't really do it anymore
but I've really got to get
to what I've got in store
Old Jung said that I was stuck
still refusing to grow up
and the only cure is work
well what about instead to blow up
I'd be thrilled to bow my head
I'll take any work you give me
let the journey be within
destination be to live free

what

2.2821 : 01/22/13 : Waiting for Life

Waiting for his
life to begin
no ship coming
no escape for him
he is no writer
but he dreams all day
and what do
these strange pictures say
sure there's still
 a lot to see
but he's got
responsibility
and he's not
waiting anymore
but he didn't
close the door

what

2.2820 : 01/21/13 : Freeze

I wish I could
distill this freeze
I'd stop all murders
you don't have to say please
freeze the injustice
freeze all wars
freeze out fear
and bring everyone
indoors

what

2.2819 : 01/20/13 : Don't Remember

The thing about forgetting
is you don't remember
I can't wait around this time
for next December
I can't wait a minute
Not one holiday
it has to be this moment
though there's no one
to hear what I say

what

2.2818 : 01/19/13 : Surrender

Between surrender
and war
here's what
the fighting was for:
invisible lines
and compulsions
enthrone irrational
revulsions
I'll pick up the dice
and take what comes
a surrender flag
or war drums

what

2.2817 : 01/18/13 : Slop

I'll just sling some slop out
for the pig of my ambition
well and far beyond the point of
feeling I am on a mission
no it seems more a random walk
engaged in by a drunken crab
and bad enough the every day
the runaround, the daub and drab
paste on my imaginary
empire of almighty text
It shouldn't be a task for you
to see how it is I am vexed
and waiting for the next insult
and waiting for the axe to chop
and while I wait dear pig of mine
I'll sling another cup of slop

what

2.2816 : 01/17/13 : Crunch

Cannot get this
tension out
this muscle clench
this crunch
or shake this
bloody feeling
that I played
a rotten hunch
this sickness
it is anxious fear
anger, envy
torpid lust
don't ask me about
it's object right now
any prick
could pierce this crust

what

2.2815 : 01/16/13 : Respite

To hell with it
I'll take my respite
won't state the resolve
or try to test it
every so often
you get a thing done
have a little rest boy
have a little fun

what

2.2814 : 01/15/13 : Drone

When it comes around
years from now
jut slap on a drone
and take another bow
if this is the new sound
God strike me deaf
and pinion my wretched body
on the treble clef

what

2.2813 : 01/14/13 : Rot

The stress pouring in
from where it should not
do the right thing
what's that?
what rot!
by rot I mean bull
by bull I mean shit
sorry about the children
but someone better say it
I'm going to give up
truly pretty soon
I've got a thirty month
appointment
to howl at the moon

what

2.2812 : 01/13/13 : Teenage Century

And you know it was ugly
almost right from the start
and sure I was dirty
sure I played my part
and we'll reap this wind a
long long time evidently
apparent to all but the most obtuse
here at the dawn of this
teenage century
it's getting surly
getting secretive and quiet
well it's never been happy
it's always been violent
if it's an awkward phase well
we may not recover
grim signs and omens
in the fog and filthy air, Lover
said these days weren't
meant for me
but I ended up regardless
in this teenage century

what

2.2811 : 01/12/13 : Leech

Did I strike distraction
the fatal blow
doubtful sure and if I did
how would I know
but if I did
then oh what then
what might I reach
will it make a real difference
will it stem
this dreadful leech
past the point of buying
things will have to change
let the devil ring his course
the future to estrange

what

2.2810 : 01/11/13 : Wracking

Something wracking me
in my sleep lately
bowing my neck
paining me greatly
I say I need to relax
that's not the half of it
It's not funny anymore
and I can't laugh at it
because it's all quite real
because it's lately stacking
and I'm full up with it
and can't take much more wracking

what

2.2809 : 01/10/13 : A Piece

Everybody wants a piece
of this
but nobody wants to pay
That feeling you've been saying
Yes
and meaning no all day
So always to the wall
these days
So brushing by the wire
Dear heaven why this
dreaming still
Please why this fire?

what

2.2808 : 01/09/13 : I Feel It

This time the fix took
I feel it
the stones and the sticks shook
I feel it
Words never hurt but if
It's real it
Might help if it can cut it
I feel it
It never stops being work
I feel it
When I come off like a jerk
I feel it
With the glass onion in hand
I'll peel it
End up with on grain of sand
I feel it

what

2.2807 : 01/08/13 : Tale

here's the tale for the night
the hammer finally touched down
and everything was all right
I got at least that much down
who's got an excuse these days
for all the doomsday flacking
I'm turning over your displays
I'll show all what you're lacking

what

2.2806 : 01/07/13 : 2nd Protocol

Second protocol
this one gonna make it all
like I dreamed six years ago
ain't gonna take it
no more no
When I yank that stitch up
gonna yell for sure
but this trains got to hitch up
and my motive's pure

what

2.2805 : 01/06/13 : By Hand

Sure it feels normal
this skill
made by hand
free, not a shill
fourteen billion hands to use
again again
the machine says recuse
cheap books, ugly pens
Yet I come back
again and again
thinking this last time
I'll crack the code
remake it by hand
and watch my dream
and watch my dream
explode

what

2.2804 : 01/05/13 : IT

What would it look like?
What would it feel like?
Would I know if it
gave me a hard bite
Would it please me
What would it be called
Where would I go to have it installed
so little faith left that it even exists
a dream a fantasy lost in the mists

what

2.2803 : 01/04/13 : Real World

Back in the real world
Everybody fought
everybody ran out of money
everybody still bought
there was fighting everywhere
killing in the streets
everyone could see
it was a string of grim defeats
And I ask you
why on earth shouldn't I just dream
make up stories of the better way
because the real world makes me want to scream

what

2.2802 : 01/03/13 : Utopian

Go Utopian
not gonna fall asleep again
old way better catch me if you can
For from now on
this gospel plow's on
think bigger
banish no
more than a thousand
ways to go
refuse the no
the antique ismics
naysayers invited to
behold my diznix
Go no
apologies
I brushed the dust
off my knees
the last time
there the other day
now you get down
taken look at my way
plow on plow on
hitch your sacred cow on
what it produces I can burn
and ready or not the world will turn

what

2.2801 : 01/02/13 : No Resolutions

No resolutions
and look at this mess
It's not my fault I whine
I'm under duress
only one way
to redeem this failing
turn everything around
on a single inhaling

what

2.2800 : 01/01/13 : No Words

No words
for this thing
I must walk away from soon
far past the midnight
far past the moon
Speak of it never
let never be my word
and you please pretend
you never heard

what

2.2799 : 12/31/12 : Quest

No bridge no
borderland
the quest goes on
but no omen
will be found to hand
and I wrap up quietly
no bombast
my quest proceeds
this day's
not first nor last

what

2.2798 : 12/30/12 : Not By Light

So the dull life
so the dull poetry
I never guessed it all
would be so slow and free
next time next time
next year a big new
thing don't you believe
don't you believe it's true
You can push your problems
off a day
but they don't go away
Who wants to be reminded
it wasn't by light
I was blinded
I am responsible
for my own dullness
my attachment to possession
and fullness
and the answer
is not in the past
and I must get this down fast
You can push your problems
off a day
but they don't go away
Who wants to be reminded
it was not by light
I was blinded

what

2.2797 : 12/29/12 : Never a Chorus

Ain't got it
cannot care
hey it happens
today a blank stare
never a chorus
so it all misses the point
and the lines keep getting longer
and the time more out of joint

what

2.2796 : 12/28/12 : The Underwriters

After the underwriters
enumerate my vices
after I learn the costs
begin to pay the prices
nothing will change
Save a little protection
provided I can measure up
provided I can pass inspection
there's no real insurance
but you do what you can
give the underwriters their cut
and pray you get your A plan

what

2.2795 : 12/27/12 : Dreams

Dreams what are you
trying to tell me
imaginary bands
my own bright fantasy
if I could get my mind
off the big parade
I'll get no part
of that cavalcade
and if there really is
no story underneath
I guess it's up to me
to give this new dream teeth

what

2.2794 : 12/26/12 : Cold Start

Wondering what's becoming
of me as I begin to doubt
that dreams mean anything
as I begin to see life
as a game of cruel percentages
a random distribution
a matter mainly of parentages
no hope for revolution
no hope for transformation
no point it turned out
in gathering the information
the dull eyed truth that it's depression talking
doesn't penetrate to my heart
and inertia's all I've got left
to impel me through another cold start

what

2.2793 : 12/25/12 : Borrowed

You could say it's
all been borrowed time
Since the age of three
You'd think I could
let down my guard
temper my shrill plea
all fine and well
saying to yourself
be true
But I owe what I owe
and see no help from you
and I can't distinguish
from pure chance
and I can't take in wisdom
afforded such a brief glance
and these borrowed answers
don't fit any of my questions
and what about you
are you out of suggestions

what

2.2792 : 12/24/12 : Little Incarnation

Oh little incarnation
am I part of the tradition
If it's scarcely ever seen again
What then the sum of our condition
what is this song about
by whom was it written
probably none will ever ask
none enchanted none are smitten
none believe in incarnation
all reject my sacred premise
none perceive the poetry
every one points out the blemish
What can the psalmist say
I'm surely not the canon
and I've turned it all upside down
long snarling after mammon

what

2.2791 : 12/23/12 : Child Star

I might be too old
to be a child star now
gone past late bloomer
I'll start right out with my last bow
Should it appear
would I reach my hand out
it's not even
worth my time to think about
what's worth it
are reasons all delusion
I can't fall back anymore
claiming blind confusion
the child stars all grew up
at the same rate as me
and strangely enough
most seem wrapped up in the same calamity

what

2.2790 : 12/22/12 : Habits

Is this a habit
or a habitat
not so sure that
I can like like that
after twenty years
I really need a plan B
and having walked free
from the habits that were
killing me
I said
Here's to breaking patterns
here's to silent pauses
here's to bold adventures
that come
without escape clauses
here's to turning new habits
inside out
and I'll rock this new adventure
Like a Roundabout

what

2.2789 : 12/21/12 : Deserve

I deserve a break too
just as much as
her or you
I'll steal it from
my aspiration
call it my
deferred vacation

what

2.2788 : 12/20/12 : Topic

The topic
considered
rejected
no, not again
and this no great improvement
and so
what then
despite myself
the question
becomes the answer
and here's a bind I've
seen before
that's got left
no romance, here

what

2.2787 : 12/19/12 : Hierarchy

I've been thinking on the hierarchy
I've been thinking it's a bunch of malarky
No escape in your bold new media
no explanation in your dumb encyclopedia
I guess I better come up with a way to feel okay
about where I seem to land in my day to day
I guess I better get over this climbing urge
I guess I better go off on a big esteem splurge
Write from the bottom still claiming the top
So sad you haters have to close up shop
Can't help but drop in the beam of my velvet anarchy
look on as we deal with the hierarchy

what

2.2786 : 12/18/12 : Sanctus

In Spiritus Sanctus
You know they never thanked us
now all mixed together
one climate no weather
Could these be the bad days
The meeting of all wrong ways
the next great extinction
what place for one of no distinction?
no trace of the spiritus sanctus
that I can perceive
no it's not blasphemy
What was once felt
What and where was it?
delusion or glimmer
will grim days
see it wane ever dimmer?

what

2.2785 : 12/17/12 : Breaks

These breaks that don't matter
will any?
have you thought on that subject
Yes, many
the waves break south
the waves break east
until we break these selfish habits
we're banned from the feast
compassion battles stress:
Who knew
then what is love's tactic?
I'll have to get back to you

what

2.2784 : 12/16/12 : Empty

Not a thing in my head
and it feels pretty good
I needed a vacation
and I said I would
Empty out my brain
and start fresh clean and cold
zero preconceptions
and good as gold

what

2.2783 : 12/15/12 : Craft

A little long in the tooth
to learn a new craft
but what the hell else
Guess I'm going to have to
Get tired just thinking
about that hill
I'll face it all tomorrow
then I'll swallow that pill

what

2.2782 : 12/14/12 : Not Made

You and I
not made for these times
not made for this world
armed only with rhymes
If I could talk to you
What would you say
are you still very sad
I am today
make a case
this world wasn't made
for wrath and violence
We deserve a place
a little patch
of peace and silence
another day
I know I'll see it all again
I never understood it
and I still won't then

what

2.2781 : 12/13/12 : A Thousand

A thousand things to do
and nothing pays
am I going to think of that
another thousand days
When I piece it out like that
it doesn't seem so much
Still well shy of ten
since when I lost my magic touch
hell I cannot ride this train
a minute more
fueled by fear and distrust
of just what's in store
So afraid of dying
by the thousand cuts
time to grasp the nettle
and this time, no buts

what

2.2780 : 12/12/12 : Break This

I've got to break this thing
I've got to
got to got to
break this thing
it's not a teacup
it's not a string
I've got to, got to got to break this thing
Up close it looks like a wall
Way back it looks like a chasm
It cast a mountain's
shadow at night
but in daylight seem a phantasm
Conscience tells me it's inside
but my eyes say
it's the world's fault
If I could just get
a couple weeks to contemplate
If I could just call a halt
to make strategy
a plan on how
on how to break this thing
until I do it seems
I can not make a thing

what

2.2779 : 12/11/12 : Puppet

Push a last penny
into this slot
watch the little puppet dance
a whole lot like
my little spot
in a little while
the next way will appear
little puppet
you will get your choice
no fear

what

2.2778 : 12/10/12 : Working

What do you get
if you say it isn't working
maybe an apartment
and a lawyer's bill
What's your next move
When you can't see a future
another plan
or the poison pill
Never stop it says
never settle
It was a slogan
on a liquor ad
I had a thought
about hope and promise
Still working on it
day and night, gay or sad

what

2.2777 : 12/09/12 : Trusting in Luck

Is it just
trusting in luck again
magic numbers
with my magic pen
no just exhausted
from straight up work
all perfectly legitimate
so wipe off that smirk

what

2.2776 : 12/08/12 : Where Dreams Come to Die

I arrive all unprepared my everyday calamity
Look at me all meek and scared well oh the humanity
You think you're going to write your way out of this one son
The fact that I believe I might that's how the death of dreams gets done
Welcome one and all to the place where dreams come to die
Hey lady what you think of my face as the years pass me by
I even thought I was one of a kind and it would pay somehow
If my friends could read my mind if they could see me now
up in this hallowed ground where dreams come to die
sill chasing the big sound just another astral pie
And when I line them back to back you know I've got to laugh
throw another up the stack know I'm not there by half
and still you've got to find your wrap along every twenty four
Keep waiting for thing to snap still keep finding more
Imagining might be unstoppable dreams might be immortal
and when my head beat gets so droppable I cannot resist the portal
that flings me from the place where dreams come to die
the grand transcendent race that great gig in the sky
And if it is my destiny to be the last mook in the chorus
I guess it's just the pest in me that won't let you ignore us
up here singing our hearts out where dreams come to die
they're sweeter dying on the vine so sweet I want to cry
there are more things that will never be than ever get to live
and if I want to be free that's a thing I'll have to forgive

what

2.2775 : 12/07/12 : The Player

Will this let the anger out?
not this time I think about
Where it could go
and who's to blame?
the player
the brayer
or the master of the game?

what

2.2774 : 12/06/12 : Elimination

The diarist's metaphor
elimination
not exactly the most beautiful
model of creation
And the keeping
and the cataloging
paging Dr. Freud
If I wasn't me
I'd bee even more annoyed
What was I expecting
Grand revelation
What did I think
would be left standing
after all elimination
times is up for today
there's progress here for sure
if it's just clearing the decks
well still that motive's pure

what

2.2773 : 12/05/12 : Now On

From without further delay
to from now on
try to parse despite my attitude
it's just that what's been going on
the difference everywhere
the revelation of the increment
a talisman against despair
I reach out for the feeling of
a journey I once had
recall myself withdraw my hand
it can't be grasped for good or bad
what's not philosophy or science
tends to defy their boxes
and rhetoric's no substitute
When I roll out these paradoxes

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

2.2771 : 12/03/12 : So Bad

Want to give up so bad
hey nobody's stopping you
the concept so rad
but the network's still dropping you
I used to be a player
for certain small definitions
peeled off another layer
whoops and lost my ambitions

what

2.2770 : 12/02/12 : Fresh Concept

Leave thoughts unthought
hey a fresh concept
for your crazy bin
ten years and still
we just keep cooking up
and chucking in
Alternatives are scarce
even while riches embarrass
Don't wear it out
soon it will find its way
to history's pile
you wouldn't think it
but it's been planned like this
all the while
it even has a name
but guessing it is half the game

what

2.2769 : 12/01/12 : Reruns

Gross: what if it's all reruns
form here on out no original content
wait did I say this before
don't look at me friend no comment
that it's all been seeming too familiar
nothing but to put it to the halt
hope for a better day like always
remember that it isn't all my fault

what

2.2768 : 11/30/12 : Gimmicks

Maybe could have guessed gimmicks
and shortcuts not your game
Well I never asked for the lottery
or sudden fame
just a simple plan
some confidence of execution
left with solipsism
ever-present confusion
World seems unfixable
people obstinate and cruel
children ask only for love
can't even afford them gruel
fix it your non-presence demands
you immanentize my promised lands
have you taken a look at these aching hands
trying to grasp shadows, desert sands
it's a cruel trick
when you known I'm not built for it
To issue this compulsion
To me to dive in to the hilt for it
No it's not a gimmick
but it's a dark magic spell
here I thought you dealt in light
all the time but oh well

what

2.2767 : 11/29/12 : The Horse

To hell with you all
And the horse you all road in on
I guess I'll line up with the rest
but inside I am not a minion
It could go on and on
but I'll retire to get rave on
You'll have to show me if you think
there's one good reason to behave on

what

2.2766 : 11/28/12 : Priorities

Are you trying to tell me something
about priorities
I said they'd come first but I
can't get to them
that's some exquisite irony
I could use a little help here
The Path's anything but clear
can you even relate to fear
Without a wheel I cannot steer
And here I am
at a remove discussing
my priorities
Speaking to air
inside my head
craving just a taste of my old certainty

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2.2765 : 11/27/12 : Cliff

Everybody's talking cliffs
All feeling up against
the cuts we cornered
with the words we minced
fear the insurrection
the resource crash
and all that couldn't be solved
with a fistful of cash
want to see the whole world drawn up
and converged
but aside from the odd battlefield
nothing really surged
and real or imaginary
the cliff haunts us all
and no matter who
we all take the big last fall

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2.2764 : 11/26/12 : Don't Talk

Don't talk about failure
the same same same
don't mention the project
or anything by name
How no one pays attention
how nobody cares
Don't talk about that comeback
You came up with on the stairs
What a pity, nothing to say
give me a topic is all I pray
And I don't talk about it
Anywhere but here
Don't talk how it's all circular
Or how there's nothing here

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2.2763 : 11/25/12 : Fast

Give me a magic missile
and make it fast
universal projectile
a killing strike to last
what is this yawning emptiness
my first world tourist trip
I'll speak of it for years I'm sure
a half dozen meals I skip

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2.2762 : 11/24/12 : Triage

I'm going to triage my priorities
It's going to be different this time, you'll see
won't get distracted, let my focus slip
be like an arrow shot in space this trip
failing belief in a special destiny
triage must be my first priority
failing belief in special intervention
the structure of decision must be of my own invention
but I'll make it nice and simple like 1, 2, 3
and feeling right will be my next priority
and since a triage of course means three
well I hate to ruin surprises so just wait and see

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2.2761 : 11/23/12 : Face

Making a list of things
to throw in your all-seeing face
I add some flattering
there on the end for just in case
it's a nice trick
how you vanish when the blame goes 'round
but when it's time for giving thanks
your self-regard astounds
my face looks back at me
am I still a believer
am I in the grips of the
delusion of some grim deceiver
I find I cannot push
my mind in these shapes anymore
now I am face to face with it
forced to decide what it is for

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2.2760 : 11/22/12 : A Million Stories

Anticipating antipathy
the days we pick here
in Land o' Free
Can't we all just
try to be nice
a million stories
and with each comes a price
I'll be the bigger man
I'm just that kind
now there's a story
I'd delete from my mind
If you could do that
it turns out you can't
So I repeat myself
so I rave and rant

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2.2759 : 11/21/12 : Pre-Emptive

Pre-emptive thanks
weren't expecting it
show me your crazy notion
Wow I'm respecting it
Short of time
but it's at your command
me in my usual state
yes nothing in my hand

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2.2758 : 11/20/12 : These Days

Sure of these days
I was very clearly told
they even guaranteed they'd strike
before I was quite old
They even told me I'd be
surprised despite the warning
but no one could explain
the way I'd feel that next morning
no use in getting mad
anyway we can't afford it
if there's only one train out
What use to refuse to board it
these days I have to ask
Is it really any new trouble
or just that it's our turn now
to draw a black spot and get it double

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2.2757 : 11/19/12 : No Advice

I give up my no advice again
I am so far out of my depth my friend
my fine mentor can we begin again
nothing but my stupid little prayers to send
And it's all like this isn't it oh Great One
Okay till it's not and anytime you say, boom, done
I can't keep track of everything I had begun
and nothing done and oh are we yet having fun?
No advice at all in the book just weird tales
neither wise nor a babe just a blank verse gun on rails
and what've you got to say everyday you outrage me with travails
how hard how dark how fast my sin pales
in comparison to the high and mighty
in comparison to the crimes of Aphrodite
I guess I'm not a lot of use, all-rightey
as I quest for the advice so elusive and flighty

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2.2756 : 11/18/12 : Grind

Is there any work
that isn't a grind
or is it just how must
messes with my mind
I thought that I
Could rise above
be mister iconoclast
Live on love
but Justice ain't the only
thing that's blind
and everywhere I look
it's just another grind

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2.2755 : 11/17/12 : Rogue Android

Rogue android
will we never learn
after the disaster
and its lesson so stern
we just keep bringing them
because they work so hard
thinking this time we won't
screw it up: let down our guard

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2.2754 : 11/16/12 : Spec

Will anything ever
end up matching the spec
So many times I prayed gold
and rolled up dreck
should I be digging harder
or pulling up my claim
Or just searching out someone
to loudly blame
what if nothing ever changes
from now on
I think I heard that
in some forgotten song
What if God made it all up
and shrugs when we ask why
Someone should think about that
but not this guy

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2.2753 : 11/15/12 : Shallow

Good God could it be
it's still all been superficial
Up to this point the surface only
the truth always so sacrificial
maybe there's nothing in there
everything is hollow
would that even excuse
these long swamps in which I wallow
thrash out into the deep
toes lift off the riverbed
feel it closing over
and try not to lose your head

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2.2752 : 11/14/12 : Drop

4 days drop like a rock
into a dark pool
they can't teach you where it goes
in any school
It may just
teach you to respect the mysteries
dear God
I hope it's harbinging
a brighter destiny

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2.2751 : 11/13/12 : Softballs

I need some softballs
slow pitches up in there
too tired to swing hard
a pile of stress and fear
I guess I serve myself
pick my path day to day
the saving grace is
there's always more to say

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2.2750 : 11/12/12 : Circle 'Round the Heart

I circle 'round the heart
wondering if I dare to tap it
thinking of the pile that waits
for this plan if I scrap it
So now what demand some more
I heard there was a promise
I don't know what for
But you've got to put
Your heart in it
Tonight you'll dream
just how you'll start in it

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2.2749 : 11/11/12 : Rosetta

I can't speak the language
though it is so common
this is not the rosetta
of the Ankh or Aman
There's no translation across
all these channels
the triptych works
but there's no translating the panels
I guess we'll have to
stay curious about it
But you know I understand
Why you were
furious about it

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2.2748 : 11/10/12 : Damietta

I had trouble in getting to Damietta
the years I dreamed and so little got better
the journey north its thousand tales
You know the end I sought beyond a thousand veils
Everybody took to me like Lawrence of Arabia
So wise and sensitive
I seemed a sage or maybe a
harbinger, an omen an idol
in Damietta in the time of my revival

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2.2747 : 11/09/12 : I'm Done

I threw my dice into the river
ah whoops that didn't deliver
was never great with metaphor
Especially ones about Roman war
If you think it's been real
if you think it's been fun
maybe you should try it out
for a couple of years: I'm done
Hell I don't know what I'll talk about next
anything but ambition or circular text
As long as it can carry about five years
by then I swear every account will be out of arrears
by then I swear
I'll find out how to find out
by then I know
I'll really clean my mind out
but today baby
I ain't the one
and the reason I know
is because I'm done

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2.2746 : 11/08/12 : Idea

What came across like
such a straight idea
all light in the darkness
all truth will free ya
Such a bit of nothing
five minute's action
turned out so much work
and where's the satisfaction
I said: Idea
when you turned so wrong
another and another and another song
when I thought I had the number
of all you fools
world grew so many moving parts
all with so few rules
not much revision
in the premise as conceived
and if I turn it over
would I be relieved
Say I'm taking my idea
and I'm going home
but it sticks like a shadow
wherever I may roam

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2.2745 : 11/07/12 : Other Game

Am I asking the right questions
am I on the right side
Am I foolishly spectating as
ill suited entropies elide
the feeling I can't shake
has two faces like a coin
bound always together but
the two can never truly join
But I see myself neither elevated
ranked in any great race
nor dragged int the heavy depths
having lost all worth and face
the answer's not somewhere between
it's some whole other game
Just need to learn the rules and
find the court and hand the judge my name

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2.2744 : 11/06/12 : Horse Race

Screw 'em I'm not going
to watch the so-called
horse race
leave it up to
that one and
old what's-his-face
not going to get
anxious
and bite my nails
let the rest of
you all fools
chase your tails
drum up a little
light and
innocuous fare
pretend for a night
the horse race
just isn't there

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2.2743 : 11/05/12 : In the Interest

In the interest of change
Throw a little strange
on the dice
all in the wrist
doesn't that feel nice

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2.2742 : 11/04/12 : Sign Off

Before I get too used
to the change in time
I'm going to sign one off
with a played out rhyme
that road I've been down
a thousand times before
and I stay and wait and wonder
if you've got anything more

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2.2741 : 11/03/12 : Pity

I want your pity
what's that say about me
I want to spit it
back at you and be free
all I wanted
was one last big score
You know at just a taste
you'd see me back for more
Oh it's a pity
but I'm stepping on this
doing nothing right right now
sounds just like bliss
I bet I lost you all
by now huh didn't I
pity as just now I bid
you look within my...

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2.2740 : 11/02/12 : Beg

Do I have to beg
for freedom from dreams
and will it matter
even if I do
Should I just fake it
make what is from what seems
And who should I ask
then if not you
who would start listening
at this far point
try to make sense
of this continuous catalog
Even I just want
to quit this joint
revert the whole lot back to analog

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2.2739 : 11/01/12 : Feeling It

I'm feeling it the dagger before me
Oh it's real sweet dreams
no more for you to ignore me
Time to put away all childish things
a dagger of the mind
and the release it brings
And the bloody business
will be done before noon
the final execution of self concept
and burn down this sad cartoon

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2.2738 : 10/31/12 : Masks

I used to think I
understood the masks
knew the real underneath
their purpose and their tasks
turns out there's no
onion underneath the skin
it's masks all the way down
nowhere to end or begin
don't know who's saying it
don't know who says anything
guess it's saying there's no who
just masks and wandering
you'd think that it would let me
off the hook at long last
guest I can't see past it either
despite all illusions past

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