2.4998 : 1/8/19 : Middle

Nothing like an end

everything like a middle

Go get your torches babies

I've got my fiddle

Maybe the other half

will be all uphill too

Well you'll chew a long while

on what's spitting

in my griddle

what

2.4997 : 1/7/19 : Eccentric Philanthropist

Dark long enough

Demand it to pass

be an eccentric

philanthropist

sounds like a gas

I'll seek you in the cave

old bard years gone

and you'll talk me

out from the old impasse

what

2.4996 : 1/6/19 : I Doubt It

The star says power

I doubt it

what else to say anyway

about it

gut worm ear worm

brain worm

All turning crazy

If it's the augery I flout it

what

2.4995 : 1/5/19 : To Arrest Progress

Soon wrap it up with

failed groping to

arrest progress

Guess I'm trying to keep ancient

history alive but

hey I digress

under the shadow of a

nasty turn in the inner

labyrinth

fail or luck out it'll be a

long day before I

get out of the tall grass

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

2.4993 : 1/3/19 : Cape

Like a goof in a crux

in a cape

Think I stopped dreaming

of the great escape

Think I'll surprise them

all and ace the quiz

and from that launchpad

get the devil by the nape

what

2.4992 : 1/2/19 : And Burns

The worm

returns

It twists

and burns

And seems

its host

Just never

learns

what

2.4991 : 1/1/19 : Delusion

Landscape can't be all verges

So maybe it is delusion

Not tough to plumb the history

pinpoint the source

of my confusion

But it is what I arrived

at and the path is not so

clean

And the feeling of the

turning point

proves not always illusion

what

2.4990 : 12/31/18 : Punk

Feeling a little

Punk

This weird midweek

Year end funk

a double fistful to

round it out

and hopefully the

next routine

a bit less junk

what

2.4989 : 12/30/18 : The Thin End

Getting it down

to the thin end

just might belong

in the bin friend

better not to trust that

voice

even if it's right

Ah if any hear thanks

for the ear that

you again lend

what

2.4988 : 12/29/18 : The Kids

The kids are out

and I do my waiting

Not much thesis

here to be stating

seek balance

when there's so much fear

trust in the allright

and brook no further

baiting

what

2.4987 : 12/28/18 : For the Better

Seek change for the

better: fast and sure

Somehow someway

Seek the cure

to the pleasure and

delight of all

Till the making is complete

the faking must endure

what

2.4986 : 12/27/18 : Mismash

Night is a

strange mishmash

weekday in the middle

of the holiday hash

turn in early

and be smart

I've got a helluva

year start

to smash

what

2.4985 : 12/26/18 : No Conscious Thought

No conscious thought

all transparent

Enigma of choice

invisible inherent

and what to call

the seafoam evident self

and why do we assume

it is the heir apparent

what

2.4984 : 12/25/18 : Carol

Better cheer

the big turnaround

Despite my obligation

good will might abound

Deliver me from

my downside

A carol of surprise

return make

Joyful sound

what

2.4983 : 12/24/18 : Alternate

Stupidly invoke

the alternate clause

running over the limit

calling it one last pause

hope to get over

in the hour that stretches

And break a kind

of record

by my own obscure laws

what

2.4982 : 12/23/18 : Wind Up

12 minutes with a book

get a month's long

wind up

I saw the pattern

hell and right away

I signed up

saved time and fit

the particular stage

and on and on

until

the next thing I grind up

what

2.4981 : 12/22/18 : 15 Ways

Routine I've seen

down fifteen ways

how it always

comes out ends of days

and make that 15

times a thousand

what should I hope

as it replays?

what

2.4980 : 12/21/18 : Good Friday

Good friday

I guess

kept busy

write less

try to feel

the season

and please Lord

bury the stress

what

2.4979 : 12/20/18 : In the Margins

Good father watch

over my rest and pause

deliver me perspective

and inkling of the cause

oh to return with some

new fresh approach

found buried in the margins

the unloocked for clause

what

2.4978 : 12/19/18 : Bitter Middle

I'm sticking this out

to the bitter middle

You know I'm high

king of

the jot and dittle

this old philosopher

stargazer bard

Start striking sparks

While I warm up

my fiddle

what

2.4977 : 12/18/18 : COMEBACK

The just won't stop

slinging these comeback

dead

it ain't subtle

allegory not over my

head

We're up to our necks

in these corpse assholes' trash

And how we'd love to

find our own world

way instead

what

2.4976 : 12/17/18 : Better Medicine

Better medicine

Can't I just drift and

laugh?

lark off and

do all things by half

Oh this stumblebum

reeling crawl

what would be left

when we burned

the chaff?

what

2.4975 : 12/16/18 : Husk

That's the big laugh

My stuff's all husk

so never would I

tour or busk

So wholly on

the wrong limb's branch

As far from well

as dawn's from dusk

what

2.4974 : 12/15/18 : Pith

Is there a future

no gloss all pith

Someday to be a legend

amongst my kin and kith

will it come around

the long way and return

and will I still

be along with?

what

2.4973 : 12/14/18 : Bite

Fine I'l bite

sync and site

banged up too

broke ass kite

what

2.4972 : 12/13/18 : Tedium

If the tedium turns out

to get worse not better

to whom shall I write

my protesting letter

I bet you can feel me

if you really came this far

will this thing still feel

not prop but fetter?

what

2.4971 : 12/12/18 : BENT

I thought to cut it shorter

said get bent

Where else to do

When I've been sent

over the moon

and round the bending

never ending then

whoops there it went

what

2.4970 : 12/11/18 : Minimum

What's the minimum?

Fine with sounding dumb

more obtuse haiku

Straight down as a plumb

what

2.4969 : 12/10/18 : Clock's Ticking

Clock's ticking

quickly on this homage

as usual with me

it's mostly soft fromage

transcribed directly

off the cuff

the better to be getting off

to some business

in the garage

what

2.4968 : 12/9/18 : Queer Trump

Queer trump

on an odd date

Not really sure

I can pay the freight

But there's one way

up and out

And no question at all

headed for that state

what

2.4967 : 12/8/18 : The Rhetoric

The funnymen

getting in the thinker game

Under the wrapper

it's all the same

every year I hate

rhetoric worse

but I suppose

it's not what's to blame

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

2.4965: 12/6/18 : Dayside

Days notion

lost

The usual

dayside cost

of internment

in the box

Forgot ten times

What got tossed

what

2.4964: 12/5/18 : Satire

Not a bit of trouble

in my heart over the satire

sticks and stones

you know my heart

and its strange fire

say what you will I'm

bored with the debate

but wait to hear

a single word that

will inspire

what

2.4963 : 12/4/18 : Flat

No none of it

nothing, flat

what do you

say after that

If I don't

shift that rut

guess I deserve the lead hat

what

2.4962 : 12/3/18 : Heated

Get heated

in a quiet funk

feeling the proverbial

pricks in my junk

and just keep

shouldering the weight

and the plan so far

seems pretty bunk

what

2.4961 : 12/2/18 : The Form

If all I really have to

do is keep the form

not like any of it pays

or keeps us warm

and the purpose

overall is dubious

But reality these days

isn't that the norm

what

2.4960 : 12/1/18 : The Fix

and still sometimes

I think I almost

see the fix

bypass the hateful

pack, get straight

into the mix

oh it all sounds

easy in your head

but this world is

getting old for

my dumb tricks

what

2.4959 : 11/30/18 : Routine

What's scary? That

I stick with this

routine

Really not a prayer

of getting out clean

Heavens if I ever

came to balance the facts

Would I really even

know what that would

mean?

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

2.4957 : 11/28/18 : String

Can't string along much

longer lining ducks up

a longer list of

what the devil mucks up

And still I pull and

pull and pull this string

And deal with whatever

that hairball

chucks up

what

2.4956 : 11/27/18 : Leisure

Am I at leisure

or just under the chase

I guess I better

get to finding a new place

If I brought every

single tiny thing I got

will I ever face the leisure

with a clear face

what

2.4955 : 11/26/18 : CONFLICT

Stare at the page

and get defeated

I know my refrains

and it's oft repeated

and though I'll have

to flag another

navelly gaze

Somewhere in deep

background

the conflict got heaed

what

2.4954 : 11/25/18 : This Condition

That five minutes thing

Oh yeah that

thought I had

Still could get

after that

cut rate

Scheherazade

though I know I cannot

talk my way out

of this condition still

things to get on about

what

2.4953 : 11/24/18 : Bad Deal

Try to turn this

ocean liner around

Sounds like a bad deal

yet I like the sound

of my big luxury

Ship of thought

take another token

to the slot

what

2.4952 : 11/23/18 : Requiems

Not doing requiems

tonight

nobody's really dead

just out of sight

And I'm planting seeds

with a seed machine gun

of my own design

Call me da Vinci's son

next up for production

the flying machine

next time around

you'll see quite clear what I mean

what

2.4951 : 11/22/18 : Ticking

In the pure

spirit

of ticking

off boxes

It still counts

what

2.4950 : 11/21/18 : Final Touches

Didn't quite

put the final

touches on

been a while

don't got

my crutches on

It'll do but

must come

the reckoning

try to imagine

that world

beckoning

what

2.4949 : 11/20/18 : Plant

The Deal is

I can't plan for shit

this bind again

So sick of it

but should the

sickness

cease at last

You'll find me

downstream

holding fast

what

2.4948 : 11/19/18 : Part

The dumbest part

saying never again

I think I'm smart

know how

the show will end

the smarter part

would look to

glide above

the wisest values

only love

what

2.4947 : 11/18/18 : Say Nothing

Getting that say nothing urge

befitting a say nothing dirge

take down the old graffiti

oh be still your heart so bleedy

be no protest be no cry

a few might notice by and by

like back in ancient days

shut up in class professor says

is anything amiss with you

I bluffed it then I will now too

stomach's sour, no heart ease

So I'll say nothing if you please

what

2.4946 : 11/17/18 : March of Reasons

Run up a red kite

on a black string

The march of reasons

denying it could

be anything

Would make life easier

But I can't make

that hook catch

But is that sound I hear

somone

undoing the latch? 

what

2.4945 : 11/16/18 : 7 Year

The seven year scracth

is coming on fast

I wouldn't exactly say

it's been a blast

I wouldn't exactly say

it hasn't been fun

I'll leave it to posterity

to figure out who won

oh if I can just get

my corner set up

I might yet justify

this ridiculous get up

what

2.4944 : 11/15/18 : Circling Dots

What are those

circling dots up there

rescue planes

or falling bombs

or buzzards

circling in the air

What can this

holding pattern mean

and should I hope it's

just been something in between

what

2.4943 : 11/14/18 : Passage

A passage of nights

now long forgotten

at least the reason

for the range

the reason for that

is rotten

only it has to happen

So who's to call

it foul or fair

but hard for sure

the hardest row anywhere

what

2.4942 : 11/13/18 : Slow Transformation

Slow

transformation

so slow

it's just a theory

I better let it go at that

before the morning gets

me bleary

though I've given up

on the surge

still yet

these beams may merge

what

2.4941 : 11/12/18 : Winner

Winter bites early

that's not all that's

biting

tell me I'm progressing

surely

why doesn't it feel

more exciting?

it's a weird little

catechism

in the middle of this mess

as I start to apprehend

sometimes more is less

what

2.4940 : 11/11/18 : Hex

Better gin up

the hex and

the hashes

exorcise the

dismal din

with divots

and dashes

better nonsense than

that prior gack

chew through the old views

like a snack

what

2.4939 : 11/10/18 : Pretend

Pretend pretend

Don't know what else

all the partisans

fooling themselves

but what does being smart

get anyone

not a dime

not another day in the sun

So am I giving up?

Heaven forfend

so until I'm feeling it again

guess I pretend, pretend

what

2.4938 : 11/9/18 : Living And

I was cooking up a

whole line

about the living and

the dead

but I just want to

shelve it now

Lay my head in bed

And put a punctuation

mark on one dumb part

the end of the era

of start and stop and start

what

2.4937 : 11/8/18 : Frantic

It's all part of the design

the frantic pace

keep my gimbals unaligned

Keep me in my place

I gotta gotta breathe deep

get my bearings straight

until I've got my line down

in my sleep

And at the cusp

I will not hesitate

what

2.4936 : 11/7/18 : Actually

Oh right but

I didn't actually

Well I had

a rough week

factually

and it isn't

but half done

and I'm not looking to

impress anyone

what

2.4935 : 11/6/18 : Face

Don't even want to

hold the place

want to get up in

someone's face

but I don't know

who

and does this place

seem so familiar to you

the bad kind of déjà vu

a dirty beige venue

what

2.4934 : 11/5/18 : Boss

It ain't a compliment

Look how we caved

I'd hate to be a boss

Nobody gets saved

I have to bring it in

nothing like a boss

never in charge of one thing

trust me it's your loss

what

2.4933 : 11/4/18 : Talent

Ghosts of raw talent

from before I was born

like I need the reminder

well I won't yield to scorn

not to be claiming

I'm getting anyplace

While more of my grin

falls out of my face

I reckon they'll patch me

back up again yet

like I patch up these bits

just the best I can get

what

2.4932 : 11/3/18 : The Joy

All I want

the joy the passion

jettison politics

commerce

fashion

if only you'd confirm

the art for

my pursuit

am I ignoring

the obvious

or waiting for a

dead tree to bear fruit

what

2.4931 : 11/2/18 : Pivot

Saw what was coming

and tried to pivot

not quite an answer but

the answerman

won't give it

but hell I'll swing

right on and follow

through

try to shade the line

and prove my pivot true

what

2.4930 : 11/1/18 : Buy

Bring me something I can buy

I mean believe if you can take

the irony of putting it that way

I need a hope transfusion

credible and not delusion

and I need to be able to make it pay

and I guess that it's a little bit

better than the old time

brother act depression and rage

but when I boil it down it's

still a lot of what if what if

blame it like a weakling on the age

what

2.4929 : 10/31/18 : Hack

Stark reminder

I can't hack the abuse

anymore not getting

younger

and in the absence

of a muse

What do I know

but the daily attack

though you very

well may

go and call me a hack

what

2.4928 : 10/30/18 : Wicked

Went a day that

I forgot to do

the wicked wanting

While winners

played their plots

Lord I was punting

and not tonight oh no

don't get

two in a row

and I'm already

feeling wicked

don't ya know

what

2.4927 : 10/29/18 : Sense of Horror

Sense of horror

who needs anything more

than the persistence

of absence

of a functional door

none of your

howling rants

really cut

Where it counts

easier said than done

in whatever amounts

what

2.4926 : 10/28/18 : Play on Words

Play on words

somehow the flourish

makes real change

don't think me churlish

If I blame it on you

If that doesn't work out

get cynical again

try this fresh smirk out

can that terrible attitude

throwa match in after

get the real world play up

behold the spell caster

what

2.4925 : 10/27/18 : Whatever Insight

Bring along

whatever insight

of a day

the dark again

still hoping

for the bright

What about

the next go round

still pushing on

seeking the sound

what

2.4924 : 10/26/18 : Turnaround

Pray for epiphany

feeling like I'm getting

worn down

and it's not charming

and my face is

in a frown

where is the carousel

where is the turnaround

what

2.4923 : 10/25/18 : Cowardly

If pessimism is

cowardly

But the alternative

is slippery

easier to be

high and mighty

oh give me

one pinpoint

shining brightly

what

2.4922 : 10/24/18 : CATASTROPHE

Is it anything at all

but to hold off

catastrophe

till I don't

someday inevitable

the ultimate

and all my wills will

become won't

So overthinking

is a sad squandering

and we might as well

love

since we're all wandering

what

2.4921 : 10/23/18 : Woken Up

I'm not more woken up

than anyone

and I don't want to be

So let your speech

be done

I don't want to

talk the talk

show I'm with it

not much of an

alternative

to all that myth shit

what

2.4920 : 10/22/18 : Mile Wide Stripe

I guess that I could talk

a mile wide stripe

of garbage on this

piled of pig tripe

But that's so stale

and overdone

a line that could be

spewed by anyone

dark as it might

call on my soul

I won't be enticed

to feed the hole

what

2.4919 : 10/21/18 : Cape

Shake this off

like an old cape

I'm looking to get out

of a bad scrape

through work

alone plus

providence

but could we get

a little evidence

what

2.4918 : 10/20/18 : Bright

I'm so bright

I come with

adjustable shade

you're so right

didn't have to lift

a finger

I was born made

here's my hot take

on the heist

I diced up miles of tape

and spliced

what

2.4917 : 10/19/18 : Nevermind

Make another

pronouncement son

To hell with it

day all but done

How the hell am I

still bulling through

Nevermind

Say nothing

if I can't stay true

what

2.4916 : 10/18/18 : Spiral

No pulling out

the spiral and

the rout

never should have

shown a hand

next up

a lifetime

pounding sand

what

2.4915 : 10/17/18 : Exercise

This exercise

should maybe

get replaced by lifting

a heavy thing

over and over

not thinking

anything

and the intention

shelved at last

soon

long dead and past

what

2.4914 : 10/16/18 : Pile

What's to do

other than curse

the pile

wonder if I'll

make it to

that distant mile

more happened

I suppose

than I recall

but what's to do

next

except continue to stall

what

2.4913 : 10/15/18 : Peeve

All uncool

got a peeve on

like a kettle

in my back mind

that I leave on

I've got to trace every

long step back

likely to find

a cold stove

in a spindle shack

what

2.4912 : 10/14/18 : Better Dreams

I'm rising up to shake my fist

for better dreams

Protest the hour is

not as dark as it now seems

without hope

a little brainless positivity

the death white actor half

will rule in his proclivity

but due to certain thoughts

this answer is now

plain to me

The old veil's about split its seams

and shower us all in better dreams

what

2.4911 : 10/13/18 : Posit

Posit a slowing

only natural

approaching a peak

this one is factual

a bit of a

countdown

well we earned the count

at a price not quite

14 years

but that's not the true amount

what

2.4910 : 10/12/18 : Real Blank

Ache for a real

blank

rather than this

muddled chatter

When I catch a glimpse

the fog cranks high

like the dope

thinks it'll shatter

ho that I'd

like to exterminate

and the real blank

it's be so great

what

2.4909 : 10/11/18 : Lead

Think I was smarter before

maybe it's lead

taint in the water

and fogged up my head

the words not so glib

Short on nuance and flair

Oh likely just a slump

or time just

drove me square

 

2.4908 : 10/10/18 : 6 Possibilities

6 Possibilities

maybe 4 or 8

used to think

a thousand

but was it really

so great?

At the end of each

happenstance

you only get one

what good were the others

well dreaming was fun

what

2.4907 : 10/9/18 : Same New

Did you hear the one

about the same new

stale hat

perched on my

dumb head

how about that?

how about this then

magic trick

toss the hat in the woods

and come up

holding a brick

what

2.4906 : 10/8/18 : Too Sick

Too sick to care

or try for the

prize

another day

drifts past my eyes

watch the old

riverboat saga

start up the old

internal raga

what

2.4905 : 10/7/18 : Dangerous Times

Such repetition

old time end time rants

talk of dangerous times

on all familiar slants

Slippery slope

well we're all sliding

this basket's well in hand

and man we're riding

what

2.4904 : 10/6/18 : Gold Rush

Drink my Jamoka - dirt and all

waiting on a no doubt expensive call

oh as soon as I mend up, I'll crush

waiting on word of the next Gold Rush

What we cannot eat and cannot burn

Lord but it seems to make the world turn

For once damn it I'll win the marathon

When I hear the next gold rush is on

I read you wax sadly angry

about history's arc

I can't argue

these days the contrast is stark

but when my hands overflow I'll pay

it forth

what else could this rush possibly be worth

what

2.4903 : 10/5/18 : WORSE

I'll do you worse

as I am done by

as above

so below

another

celestial drive by

I might just

Lose the plot

fly off the handle

go in hot

what

2.4902 : 10/4/18 : LEAST

Least resistance

I deserve

A minor fall

for all I serve

guess it'll drag

however it goes

and the way I

feel about it

really shows

what

2.4901 : 10/3/18 : What Do I Think

What do I think?

That I'd dig deep within

Pull out a stack of batteries

the readiness to begin

Obviously this is it

and everything's long since begun

half good again like always

dearest square number one

wrap it up fast

thought is sounds so stale

what the hell lately

it all feels like

a shot down a rail

what

2.4900 : 10/2/18 : Pedant's Theory

Pedant's theory

of course

the countdown

doesn't start

at the nones

but at the ones

maybe I'll transform

overnight

so take heart

what

2.4899 : 10/1/18 : Subroutine

buried way deep

in this subroutine

the way to

break the loop

I hope you

know what I mean

I'm sure it's waiting

on the secret word

I've gone

ten thousand levels

seeking anyone

who's heard

what