2.3659 : 5/10/15 : Identity (Endless Axis 392/500)

Make progress

interrogate identity

tough a high bar

few get far in I see

A lot of surface to scratch

hard hard to crack the shell

that ain't the half of it

but it'd be a tale to tell

what

2.3658 : 5/9/15 : Laminates (Endless Axis 391/500)

Precious little underneath

this primate dance

strip away the laminates

reveal a dim chance

Somewhere in the old books

Out of favor so unhip

maybe at least plug a few

holes in a slowly sinking ship

maybe a hundred years

maybe even five

hell either way at all

no chance at all we're alive

hell in the wide world of words

what chance a scrap of this survives

So someone please tell me

Why the hell I strive strive strive

what

2.3657 : 5/8/15 : Coming Out (Endless Axis 390/500)

I ate this battery

now guess what's

coming out

double header

big release

not even what

the real show's

about

might guess it

glows on contact

might guess it

vibrates man

it'll find some

partisans

My brother true

my good friend Dan

It'll sink a silent

submarine on

battery

It'll get you

everywhere

Psyche

it'll come one

shattery

what

2.3656 : 5/7/15 : A Little (Endless Axis 389/500)

Show a little

here and there

just the highlights

a patch of light on bare

skin, a quiet place

retreat, rest

and nothing

to get off my chest

what

2.3655 : 5/6/15 : Permissible (Endless Axis 388/500)

What's possible

whats permissible

who wants to know

Who thinks I would kiss and tell

I got so permissive

I got so laid back

As what could be deemed

possible began to stack

what

2.3654 : 5/5/15 : Something Wonderful (Endless Axis 387/500)

Something wonderful

remember wonder sort of

no admission price

no nasty portal requiring a short shove

effortless

practically automatic

I spooled out reels

like psychedelic somatic

and the currency I

cooked

turned on a million lights

all started with something

wonderful delights

what

2.3653 : 5/4/15 : Kneel and Fold (Endless Axis 386/500)

Am I supposed

to believe in that bell

who's ringing mine

who believes in mine

tell me it's not like

casting a spell

just tell me there's

an end to all the incline

I kneel and fold

just like I buy it all

Breathe not a hint

versus the protocol

I try to fake

but I'm no actor

I wear my bitter heart

out for all to see

just hope for some relief

I didn't factor

swear next time

to stick to pleasantry

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

2.3651 : 5/2/15 : Slung (Endless Axis 384/500)

Enough got slung

I wasn't having none

more so ditch it

Someday probably switch it

What's it even mean

this senseless fast machine

if I'm a cog still do my best

For now at least

be a cog at rest

what

2.3650 : 5/1/15 : Restless (Endless Axis 383/500)

Whatever restless impulse

smooth away every ripple and peak

A flat space may lack excitement

but it's a place to let the moment speak

maybe I've been revolving on this point

the positive plane coming back around

Maybe my restless hour is falling

maybe at last I get to go to ground

what

2.3649 : 4/30/15 : Quit (Endless Axis 382/500)

Oh to cease

oh to quit

oh for the drift

cast loose of it

oh for the all of it

never lasting

surely I'll be clean

and combed for my fasting

oh for the list

long as my damn arm

of good intentions

unintended harms

and oh to be rid

of this unceasing drive

oh to finally arrive

what

2.3648 : 4/29/15 : Prospects (Endless Axis 381/500)

He prospects

follows many streams

the weight the color

of it

haunts his dreams

seeking seeking

to tap a vein

how long how long

his tired refrain

need better

prospecting

need a map

most days old man

needs a nap

and some tiny space

to pursue a craft

and a sunny claim

to sink a deep shaft

what

2.3647 : 4/28/15 : One Day Express (Endless Axis 380/500)

Before the rest gets

dragged across

mixed to grey

I guess I better get

on board the one day

express no duress

push on despite the press

what will it be

for what shall I pray

Lost some well

more lost more

and if there's no reply

When I beg after what it's for

Still, still here guess I better steer

maybe the teacher does not appear

maybe I fight my lore

way to my own core

what

2.3646 : 4/27/15 : Reads Right (Endless Axis 379/500)

Doing what

reads right

but feels wrong

really what

feels right

to sleep long

to retreat

to stand down

a confession?

a rough start

there's my part

one impression

what

2.3645 : 4/26/15 : Big Con (Endless Axis 378/500)

Have I been

staring in

the mirror

practicing the Big Con

did I forget

did I let

that shady

double lead me on

I better jam

he's on the lam

now hiding

around some corner

just been the prey

digging all the way

must have been

the underground suborner

what

2.3644 : 4/25/15 : Gala (Endless Axis 377/500)

All life's a gala

wealth all ubiquitous

don't blame the cornucopia

of the distribution's iniquitous

don't blame the aristos

they're just bars of silt

can you blame the river

I'd play that one to the hilt

but the problem sits before this page

and the problem wields his pen with rage

but rhetoric will never solve

and history is no line

nor does it revolve

what

2.3643 : 4/24/15 : Eraser (Endless Axis 376/500)

Rub out the good

with the bad

mighty eraser

I'll hand it over glad

pal I need a chaser

to wash out the taste

of what I erased

Once was a mark

now a lovely blank page

a whole new book

ain't it a whole new age

ain't it everything but

a real clean slate oh so what

what

2.3642 : 4/23/15 : Splice (Endless Axis 375/500)

Give me the splice

I'm going to short this circuit

overthinking

the call and how

I shirk it

I dare you to

ask me

just what's hard

I dare you

to pick a card

what

2.3641 : 4/22/15 : Creature (Endless Axis 374/500)

If I am a creature

of the prior age

that shrinking century

still strikes up many a page

will the legend hold up

well mine never launched

Should believe it lucky

the famous

15 minute wound staunched

what

2.3640 : 4/21/15 : Honor (Endless Axis 373/500)

On my honor

I haven't cracked yet

I am not planning to

and the logic of logic

cuts both ways

I'm not calling down fire

I'm not taunting you

despite my errant thoughts

my nervous tics

I can still boogie

with the heretics

and sneer through high tea

with the illuminati

lo and behold

my honor's still not spotty

what

2.3639 : 4/20/15 : Rent (Endless Axis 372/500)

Bad feelings got a pantheon

fear frustration envy on and on

What would it meant to rise above

Or to believe in living solely on love

Surely the evil range and roam about

surely the devil chose this age to flout

What could it mean to live in full peace

wake at last to sweet release

put to my hand the instrument

raise up at last the curtain rent

And to my eyes a vision glorious

bad feelings vanquished, joy victorious

what

2.3638 : 4/19/15 : With None (Endless Axis 371/500)

Rise upon rise

where is my downhill

can't help but feel I'm due a coast

but I don't think I will

On the many who would

pay for my woes

or those with none

now I think of those

and rise upon rise

and nothing like release

and despite a maze of contradictions

these problems are all of a piece

what

2.3637 : 4/18/15 : Wreath (Endless Axis 370/500)

Wreaths continue dropping

guess they will for a while

and the seasons will keep turning

Churning out mile upon mile

continue on my own road

knowing less than ever

to think I once had things worked out

to think I once was clever

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

2.3635 : 4/16/15 : Measure Up (Endless Axis 368/500)

What now I have to

measure up to

mister yesterday

Guess what?

I'm tired now

and not a thing to say

and so far behind

on a whole lot

and that's the

wrap up

that's all I got

what

2.3634 : 4/15/15 : Do Not Dare (Endless Axis 367/500)

Do not dare me to

justify you

Your very principle requires

I rail and defy you

someday standing at

that bright city gate

I'm laying in I will not hesitate

before I ask after any friend or Pop

I am demanding some answers

for everything you didn't stop

big man big talk

probably get the whirlwind trip

too scared of all that could be taken

to risk a further quip

I just wish I I knew

I wish I had some clean power

maybe I failed in every small thing

right up to this very hour

what

2.3633 : 4/14/15 : The Tax (Endless Axis 366/500)

Why not get blunt

with my metaphors:

the tax

the lash that hovers over

the dangling sword

if I dare to relax

my grip

even an instant

So perilous this flight

Unblinking

scarcely rested

long crawl

across a long

and trackless night

what

2.3632 : 4/13/15 : Service (Endless Axis 365/500)

Pressed into service

from troubled sleep

trying to grasp another rhythm

I could not keep

drumming my fingers

tapping my toes

wondering whatever

transcends mere prose

What was the mission?

relentless sunshine

clutching or pining

for a manner just not mine

not to question if it's worth it

nor if it pays

hold those queries silent

for later days

what

2.3631 : 4/12/15 : Rapid (Endless Axis 364/500)

Behold the rapid prototype

revealed when 

the moment's ripe

torn off as from

a mighty roll

and me with every upright pose

all to conceal the toll

what

2.3630 : 4/11/15 : Dismount (Endless Axis 363/500)

Can I execute this dismount

in a hard six

time and how it

gets up to its

old trick

and an old dog like me

Somehow stands a chance

everyone is going

to have to learn this new dance

what

2.3629 : 4/10/15 : Grace (Endless Axis 362/500)

I need grace

getting shouted

at all my corners

I've heard

the laments

of many mourners

I cast not 1

even this day

and even so for

every grace I pray

what

2.3628 : 4/9/15 : Exercise (Endless Axis 361/500)

What if I don't want to exercise

this thing of mine

anymore

this regular

this typical

What if I ain't got

nothing more

it's coming down now

that old existential dread

and I got only

one way left

to get out of my head

what

2.3627 : 4/8/15 : Stone, Bloody (Endless Axis 360/500)

Left with a squeezed stone,

bloody hand

guess which came

from what

and now you

understand

but I need my friends

and I need to believe

that in all I've given

I still may yet receive

what

2.3626 : 4/7/15 : Factory (Endless Axis 359/500)

I shoulda stuck it out I guess

at the factory

Smell of popcorn and potatoes

in that lens refractory

I might have seen a clue

At least for sure have saved more bread

What other weak dim lapses

come off the top of my head

a second shift I blew off

when still young enough to hack it

many precipitous leavings

anyway you want to stack it

guess the only moral standing

is stick to the grind

and pray for a thunderbolt

as time passes out of mind

what

2.3625 : 4/6/15 : Ready (Endless Axis 358/500)

If this is the middle

if the game is on

if my great work is looming

after oh so long

Am I ready

whoa, as I'll ever be

can't stop wondering what

strange call could mean a thing to me

this cycle's well tuned

no point calling this transitional

So what if the signal

got hung up in transmission hell

we're going to have to

make it up as we go along

tell ourselves we're ready

and stoked to hear the game is on

what

2.3624 : 4/5/15 : A Line (Endless Axis 357/500)

Who is trying to

convince who of what

always two or three

choices to you: but

I see thousands

dividing every minute

show me the slightest way

I'm terrified to begin it

So maybe you've

got the bright idea

unsophisticated

but might yet just free ya

maybe this tale

is turning out just fine

maybe somewhere

something's more than just a line

what

2.3623 : 4/4/15 : Parliament (Endless Axis 356/500)

You heard about the

parliament of birds

the sole antidote

for the fact of the herds

milling into the

next great extinction

an act of parliament

and the aforementioned intinction

create some sort of super metaman

create an unwritten

unknown master plan

that's my dream anyway

signed sealed and sent

delivered via finest messenger

to this dream parliament

what

2.3622 : 4/3/15 : Tincture (Endless Axis 355/500)

This tincture

this patent specific

a little bit of everything

So hey I feel

terrific

I can't even hang around

I got to go go go

I could tell you

an old story about that

but I'm thinking

no

what

2.3621 : 4/2/15 : Stumble (Endless Axis 354/500)

Stumble overdue

but no time for falling

can't think about the big picture

just too appalling

and I've got my little patch

to keep spruce

gotta stay like water

or so said Bruce

Now in the light

Must work while I may

So hey today

today today

what

2.3620 : 4/1/15 : Zapped (Endless Axis 353/500)

So zapped as

to be gobstopped

not like it's some

brave truth I copped

Whatever it might be

I turn my back on it

Put off to the You

Sure in time I'll hack your shit

what

2.3619 : 3/31/15 : Not Proud (Endless Axis 352/500)

Skip the second and soda

its just bumming me

Got a feeling that the man

is just slumming me

I'm not proud anymore

not defiant

though yet not quite tame

not quite pliant

my heart was a stiff reed

and it broke fast

maybe never got all the way over

but the rest was built to last

And I'm not proud of it

because it's scarcely anything

to do with me

and still nothing in my hand I bring

what

2.3618 : 3/30/15 : Fooled (Endless Axis 351/500)

Got fooled the same way

seven times

must be more than

70 times

it couldn't be

700

not impressive

no matter the count

and days I stack up clean

in whatever amount

I'm going it look back

maybe mistake this for a day

from back a few stacks

remind me not

this book: oh well

but still this is

something new I can tell

what

2.3617 : 3/29/15 : Run Up (Endless Axis 350/500)

Run up

to the bright one hundred

Oops

was that a decision

more like an incision

detour the landmine

take the torment

get mine

open ended as all hell

but that's

the sigil

that's the spell

what

2.3616 : 3/28/15 : Home (Endless Axis 349/500)

Is this home then?

now I see

home belongs to another

and I kept it

as a ship's captain

I am it's and so

Do-say, ho, heigh

brother

A silent still

salute while

passing in the night

and yours will be

safe and sound

little one

and every little thing all right

what

2.3615 : 3/27/15 : Gratitude (Endless Axis 348/500)

This thing I hate

Slumping dash between the poles

and the way it slaughters days

back dishing with the proles

piled on worries

and a sick gut

what was that about a bright side

this is anything but

Oh how I need you now

to teach me of gratitude

can't get by too much more

white knuckled shattered shrewd

If I could figure out

if it's about the kingdom or the brass ring

If I could figure out where I stood

between peasant and king

what

2.3614 : 3/26/15 : Desperate (Endless Axis 347/500)

Maybe this is really

the desperate extent

finally about to be

kicked outta the big tent

maybe I've been outside

pissing in all along

maybe I just pissed away

another precious song

maybe being positive

just ain't my thang

maybe that was the heart

of every rotten word I sang

maybe tomorrow

oh forgot it can't exist

maybe the new watchword

is subsist subsist subsist

what

2.3613 : 3/25/15 : As Good as it Gets (Endless Axis 346/500)

Nothing new in the as good as it gets trip

This groove maybe too well worn

Try to find a different drummer down in the slip-

stream somewhere a little rip torn

Shrink down to the size of a pea

Slip through find another side

Never can believe I've found that perfect place for me

Never can sit back enjoy the ride

If I can protest it's not as simple as that

Nothing boils down to just attitude

Just privilege just perspective just change your hat

Just try not to be such a middle aged white dude

I got real problems, world's got real problems

wish to hell we could get to solving

One thing drives another out, troubles breed like golems

while the bigger sphere just keeps revolving

what

2.3612 : 3/24/15 : All Dreamtime (Endless Axis 345/500)

Cook down all my favorite

books and screenplays

stories and albums

all dreamtime forays

What came out of this stew

A pack of questions

hardly a map no

short on suggestions

Sure I though I saw a

vision in the night

scribed behind my eyeballs

in the virtual light

I wrote a title that

I can't recall

and how I sort the thousand things

all great and small

and how I wander restless

in the cosmic rummage stall

ignoring every dreamtime

text from the cabal

what

2.3611 : 3/23/15 : Laughing Alligator (Endless Axis 344/500)

Powers of mind

and Castaneda's trip

these wasted hours

if I peel off a strip

Same old sutras

on the original can

and me still here

with nor more a plan

and I never tried to work it

I just liked the story

I guess and I can't

say I'm exactly sorry

So I won't hang it out

or be a hater

but rather a brother

like a laughing alligator

what

2.3610 : 3/22/15 : And Slash (Endless Axis 343/500)

Never felt more like

hack hack

Never felt more

lost in the pack

is it coming or not

the damn smash

pray, had another day

and slash

what

2.3609 : 3/21/15 : Penthouse (Endless Axis 342/500)

If I ruled the penthouse trip

would I be satisfied then

these dumb hypotheticals

and useless as a dried pen

Guess I never got hung up

enough or figured out the stakes

next thing you know this bed of coals

the next thing whoops out come the rakes

Am I out on the wingtip trip

guess I could be starting late

maybe hit the upper middle

everyone will say I'm great

What makes the man aside from money

status charm authority

Something about inner goodness

What's that ever done for me

what

2.3608 : 3/20/15 : Autobio (Endless Axis 341/500)

Seems like I missed my window for

driving the ten year nail

guess I could take a paper detour

Or would we call that an epic fail

guess I know what tag I'm going to flag this smack

how you like the cryptic autobio

gee it sure all takes me back

to all the pages pages

I'm eroding like the bookworm I am

never get this one in music

yet another slab of firm high ham

but it meant something to me

Someday have to drill much deeper

harder rhymes from deeper wells

what

2.3607 : 3/19/15 : Stalk (I) (Endless Axis 340/500)

Not so sure about this new

stalk I'm climbing

Not much faith in all the

Cheap talk I'm rhyming

I want to be a con king

like Klugarsh Mind Control

these days on the wire

they just call you a troll

Jack could have got his treasure

just as well on the ground

the moral of that story

was he just stole what he found

and as for me

I climb for love alone

the hope for the message

and failing that the lost tone

what

2.3606 : 3/18/15 : My Slack (Endless Axis 339/500)

I lifted the means of

production off the man

subconsciously sure

but hey I do what I can

I guess I could have boosted

the rest of this kit

don't sweat my inconsistent standards

that's hobgoblin shit

but oh my golly

my slack's got awful spare

where'd I pick up this damn ethic

Sure: the man who isn't there

And I'm hard pressed believing

I'm waiting for the call

And I'd tell you how I really feel

but I'd hate to appall

what

a second chance here in the nest of eyes

And so wrapping up Songs of Days volume 2.17 The Right Books (AKA Ten Treasures). Getting a little weird inside my skull (not like this show is playing anywhere else) as these relics enter what seems like the modern era of my life (though it's been the same number of years behind currency for a long while now) - same job, school-age kid.

Anyway on to volume 2.18 - Stalk 1 

what

2.3605 : 3/17/15 : Dark Liberation (Endless Axis 338/500)

Abdication of

responsibility

that's not liberation

so what does it

mean to be free

unfettered

and fearless

oh the forever back

when I fantasized

I was peerless

no you're really

down in the scrum now

you could say

I look pretty dumb now

and pining for

the uncertain vacation

and pining more

for this dark liberation

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

2.3603 : 3/15/15 : Every Single Thing Important (Endless Axis 336/500)

Needing to go

and in the worst way

and every single thing

important demands: stay

What else in the world

to say about that?

be a grown-up then

and wear this hat

what

2.3602 : 3/14/15 : Thin On the Ground (Endless Axis 335/500)

Reasonings for daydream hopes

are thin on the ground

I listen and listen for

that still small sound

and still a little angry voice

Says go to ground

and still every little thing

goes round and round and round

What's the follow up?

empty space a reason

better buckle down son

it's the planting season

and to mope and fuss

sure would be rank treason

cast the mighty spell right now

Oh yes I got my geas on

what

2.3601 : 3/13/15 : Acceptance (Endless Axis 334/500)

Find me acceptance

that doesn't feel like getting cracked

like a nut

under lead block stacked

or anyway

just let me relax

whatever your mystery

reasons, whatever these stacks

what

2.3600 : 3/12/15 : Proof (Endless Axis 333/500)

Proof of conviction

for what that's worth

Oh I groan I pine

to go to earth

dig in for the

catastrophe

or dark spikes that

dig up the past for me

get behind me

Ronald MacDonald

and every imaginary

coin I fondled

on every imaginary

dragon pile

nothing for this but the battery

and eating mile on mile

what

2.3599 : 3/11/15 : Must Be the Ties (Endless Axis 332/500)

Must be the ties

or the blue shoelaces

must be luck

or friends in high places

none of the above

some just excel

some seem born

to sigh say oh well

If everybody

gave it all and then some

if everybody

got behind Kingdom Come

we'd be outta jobs

we professional mopes

lucky these days

everybody's buried under tropes

what

2.3598 : 3/10/15 : Time Machine (Endless Axis 331/500)

I sure can't keep this up

if you keep plying the time machine

too much irony

too much jack if you know what I mean

hold out a hand

nobody's stopping this when

fall back on the flow

and repeat again

again again again

what

2.3597 : 3/9/15 : Live Without (Endless Axis 330/500)

Many endings never ending

seems the message

always sending

I could give up

this obsession

drop this torch from

my possession

but I look up

to a far height

Something to see

Something to write

if there is no call

I can live without

look up where I see

if you still have doubt

what

2.3596 : 3/8/15 : Infinite Blank (Endless Axis 329/500)

The infinite blank space

of this virtual

post-modern

Oh the look on

your face

baby that ain't

concern

better not

dare try

to try to guess odds

do the math

think this is

where I

Came in so

there's my path

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

2.3594 : 3/6/15 : Overwhelm (Endless Axis 327/500)

Is it the overwhelm

the effects of dilution

did it succumb

like any institution

to inertia, mundanity

and foregone conclusion

is there a point now

to try to cover my confusion

Once said I wore it

like a brand but then what?

I wasn't ever more

than a rough mutt

trying to get by

in a mean realm

trying to swim the crest

of the overwhelm

what

2.3593 : 3/5/15 : Opportunity (Endless Axis 326/500)

If not with first light

then at the next opportunity

don't be fooled by my meek veneer

no one strikes me with impunity

I've got a long long list

every slight every offense

and you best mind where you're sitting

when I burn down the fence

what

2.3592 : 3/4/15 : Zag (Endless Axis 325/500)

Must look for sun

in the morning

must look for tales

in my heart

there's no end of roads

despite every warning

there's no limit

no claim on art

If I'm brief

it's that time's quicker

So here's the point

before you reach for the clicker

must look for sun

when sun's shining

and though for every

lost day I'm pining

for each new day

I raise the flag

walk forth

and drop jaws when I zag

what

2.3591 : 3/3/15 : You Are Here (Endless Axis 324/500)

You are here

nothing else to work with

enough to get on

slogging through the murk with

trying to pick a battle

Well there's no end of them

and as to those not here

I was a true friend of them

what

2.3590 : 3/2/15 : The Curse (Endless Axis 323/500)

The thing that wasn't so bad

the thing that could get worse

all are born marked

all bear the curse

promised toil

well I heard that son

there'll be a day or reckoning

but not this one

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

2.3588 : 2/28/15 : Final Act (Endless Axis 321/500)

Don't think me morbid

I'm just hypothesizing

There must be a final act

but if I'm theorizing

I won't see it

friend and neither you

and there'll be a whole lot

left when we're through

what

2.3587 : 2/27/15 : The Work, In Secret (Endless Axis 320/500)

The work in secret

was performed in plain sight

I got this invisibility

thing just right

who can judge me

but God, now

What's left but sweat

from my low brow

as fate arrives

just as long expected

in the invisible mirror

all shall be reflected

and despite it all

I wear a smile

I'll ride this secret horse

for many a mile

what

2.3586 : 2/26/15 : Fool Bell (Endless Axis 319/500)

Rung to turn out in their

droves and masses

Rung to stick in dirty homes

slow as molasses

Rung to the entertainment

what fresh hell

All collapse at the peal

of the fool bell

Lacking wherewithal

to battle the capital

lacking resistance to

the lie they might have it all

failing empathy

discipline or sleep

truly was it written

they were lost lost sheep

I guess we'll try

not quite give up altogether

maybe wake up a little bit

When we hit the really crazy weather

maybe not the last act

though who could tell

And I have a strong premonition

the last laugh'll go to the fool bell

what

2.3585 : 2/25/15 : Lance (Endless Axis 318/500)

Said he would lance it

but it was a clean cut

pain like no other 

Someday sure again so what

to let go to not care to know

how is a lance to the core

past the fear struggle

and the more more more

If not sufficient what

Could be anywhere for anyone

Excusing no injustice neither

Claiming a mantle of the chosen one

no need to wrap things neatly

no need to close the door

no need for reaching out

for effortless comes what's in store

what

2.3584 : 2/24/15 : Recovery (Endless Axis 317/500)

All this world

must pursue recovery

It needs a program

a voyage of discovery

oh world you're hooked on

Shine and ambition

Oh world you know

you need a mission

what

2.3583 : 2/23/15 : Snap (Endless Axis 316/500)

What will change

in a snap

What will trigger

the trap

while the history

sets up

Man of steady purpose

gets up

what

2.3582 : 2/22/15 : Piece (Endless Axis 315/500)

Is this a piece

is this another

am I putting together

Something or the other

I'll just pretend

it's a done deal every minute

it's not exactly

but for sure I know I'm in it

what

2.3581 : 2/21/15 : Rut (Endless Axis 314/500)

If the rut seems

chiseled and worn

Sunk deep in bedrock

and if to

the rut we're born

is there a real

true path for us

somewhere past a sheer wall

Somehow a new chorus

better forward than stand still

even in the rut

there hasn't been a single turn

that didn't come with a but

maybe it's a state of mind

maybe all chance and luck

I'll traverse the rut if that's what's given me

I will kick till something comes unstuck

what

2.3580 : 2/20/15 : Stretched (Endless Axis 313/500)

Last stretched hour

hah yeah right

Better repent now

gonna be a long night

grant me the patience

Because it's nowhere near the end

and I'm long on regrets

and sure could use a new friend

what

2.3579 : 2/19/15 : Box (Endless Axis 312/500)

If my story checks out

I guess I'm back in the box

Try to remind myself

thing doesn't have locks

but I'm already off

my program here

and I waited too long

and nothing better's going to appear

Somewhere out there

is a better stance

Maybe plenty of time

maybe plenty of chance

I'll trust the winds

and my most basic truth

and I'll trust it makes sense

when I'm long in the tooth

what

2.3578 : 2/18/15 : Lent (Endless Axis 311/500)

Maybe it's all borrowed time

well who lent it

that column looks a little strange

it's the way I unbent it

What shall I give up

how long you got to count

because I have to add up

a sick amount

I just just want to get

to this simple thing

call myself ready

for what the day will bring

feel a little friendly

to the ebb and flow

make peace with the sad parts

and let something new grow

what

2.3577 : 2/17/15 : Fat (Endless Axis 310/500)

Pharaoh couldn't decide

if these years were fat or lean

I didn't know if I dared

to put wheels on this machine

hey huddling masses

you still yearning to be free

heave off your asses

and hook up to the battery

You can burn more and more

well the world keeps getting hotter

Don't ask me how to solve that one

I'm just some lonesome jotter

We always thought we'd plain run out

never guessed we'd have too much

never thought we'd roll out of control

With the curse of the Midas touch

Pharaoh couldn't keep it up

Instead he had to get wrapped up

here's a message to the tenth percent

Your fat cow's about to get snapped up

what

2.3576 : 2/16/15 : Leave Town (Endless Axis 309/500)

A worm

predictable

each turn

despicable

quick grasp

don't hesitate

a chance

it's not too late

pinned there

and turning fast

go down

iconoclast

every image

turn face down

defy augury

and leave town

what

2.3575 : 2/15/15 : A Drift (Endless Axis 308/500)

Light will come

more and greater

shine in the new day

for the revelator

all that's required

is a drift and

letting go

not resist the light within

and expect it to break slow

what

2.3574 : 2/14/15 : Ceased Thought (Endless Axis 307/500)

Ask only

for darkness

quiet

ceased thought

at the appropriate time

what use

trying to

make that old bell

chime

I could have

and I should have

a long time

a long time past and lost

Caring a little

too much

and far too

aware of

all the cost

what

2.3573 : 2/13/15 : Strange Vine (Endless Axis 306/500)

Strange vine does anyone

have an ear on this

If nothing of the divine

made it through

how's anyone going to talk to you

If I call these fruits

will your teeth set sour

If you shook me

demanded an account

23 years give or take

hour upon hour growing this

strange vine does anyone

have an ear on this

If nothing of the divine

made it through

how's anyone going to talk to you

If it dries and dies

no more gems however small or flawed

Will any stumble upon

half buried yet still

a little long and far and broad

strange vine

what

2.3572 : 2/12/15 : Magic and Escape (Endless Axis 305/500)

Grant me the juice

the grit or whatever

to seize the moment

to pull that damn lever

and flush this stale notion

magic and escape

tear through that veil

now whip me into shape

One last extension

one last medicine run

One last note to lie

and declare I've begun

Grant me the current

and the currency

a get out of jail free card

an honorary degree

what

2.3571 : 2/11/15 : Small Things (Endless Axis 304/500)

I could argue

if I wanted to justify

that I've blown a lot of small things

in the watch

of the all-seeing eye

So and begging

for the big ticket

golden high five

Could be asked

Who do I think I am

man alive

but the smallest ever gift

I guarded

and multiplied

So maybe you're the problem

oh so great

and all-seeing-eyed

and while I daydreamed

and got all sky-pie'd

I pray I didn't let slip

anymore

small things

what

2.3570 : 2/10/15 : Stupid Hat (Endless Axis 303/500)

Hand span merely between

done and undone

but it seems I've got to

convince myself I'm the one

to expound in an essay

on a virtual door

less is more

less is more

less is more

nobody's happy

they're all getting fat

I resemble that accusation

in a stupid hat

who would listen

to this sack

sad and poor

less is more

less is more

less is more

what

2.3569 : 2/9/15 : Lines (Endless Axis 302/500)

Too many starting lines

perceived now vanished

only one finish line

all thought must be banished

every day all the same

same old way never change

I borrow words I'd shed my name

and all my history estrange

how do you pull good out

of this slick crimson wire

surely not rhetoric

surely not strike and fire

every day all the same

same old ways never change

I borrow words I'd shed my name

and all my history estrange

Ever always a chance to grab

never simple never complete

but there's only this own hand

nowhere there but my own feet

and yet there's a new day

and yet any own way may change

I'll find my words in my own way

and every old line rearrange

what

2.3568 : 2/8/15 : Zoom (Endless Axis 301/500)

Zoom in focus enhance

give me the magic

this could be my last dance

with the spin

the data

the rush the mélange 

endless obstacles

I faced so staunch

all feeling samewise

all hurdles and woe

get a finger on a new thing

and away I'll go

Zoom into the future

the new optimism

by some other name

through some brilliant new prism

what

2.3567 : 2/7/15 : Zero Sum (Endless Axis 300/500)

Call every course

that's clear

we can escape

We can get out of here

It's no zero

sum game

for a hero

who's worth the name

place in my hand

a gem of great price

call my broker

isn't that nice

I'll put it to serve

a higher good

I'll do it honest

I'm no hood

I'll do it open

no dark lantern schtick

pay heed or no

you will all

feel the kick

what

2.3566 : 2/6/15 : 1 & 11 (Endless Axis 299/500)

One and eleven

til the flash change

how you like all my numbers

do I seem strange

what I'm holding in my hand

you do not want to see

So you better back up

If you dare face me

they say I gotta punch up

but I'm peerless so

I just gave up punching

now I'm fearless, yo

I'll be standing on my soapbox

at one and eleven

shouting everybody duck

here comes heaven

what

2.3565 : 2/5/15 : Not Positive (Endless Axis 298/500)

What rune scribed

could correct or reverse

or instruct or illuminate

or lift the rumored curse

That's not positive

your numbers game is cracked

hell pile it by the door

where all the other failure's stacked

I want a little bling bling

Want to take a trip

Want to know my secret?

Never quit and never skip

that might be my only

ray of sunshine this small hour

stand in the light with me

and we will speak of this power

what

2.3564 : 2/4/15 : Discipline (Endless Axis 297/500)

Teach me discipline

or teach me a discipline

You owe me a teacher

I've been so long ready to begin

Once a disciple

now lost, forlorn

Terrified I was on the 

wrong side when the veil was torn

Possessed of this treasure

what wouldn't I do

go forth and get my hands around

a dream or two

Stick my neck out

no more the cautious terrapin

Oh if I only

had a little discipline

what

2.3563 : 2/3/15 : Bacon (Endless Axis 296/500)

Is this the hammer

will this grindstone

save my bacon

to hell with all of it

I'm dying cannot

put the brake on

Let me spill into

a black and trackless

void of sleep

behold the next slip

and the riddle

there, exquisite, deep

what

2.3562 : 2/2/15 : Next to Nothing (Endless Axis 295/500)

I said in a minute I'm

doing everything right

from now on forever

starting this very night

So hey right now why

not get next to nothing

right even a bit

hah and you think I'm bluffing

what

2.3561 : 2/1/15 : Unrevealed and Yet Invasive (Endless Axis 294/500)

The unrevealed and yet

invasive Lord

and hope unwanted's

a thousand edge sword

I get cut up

any which way I turn

I should shut up

however thoughts may churn

It's been a while

hello Mr. Dim

I swore on a stack of mothers

I never knew him

but that invasive master

invisible hysterical

I should shut up

hell that would be a miracle

what