2.5176 : 7/5/19 : All Walks and Weather (The Experiment: 11/100)

It's that every minute thing

all walks and weather

cover the full circle

defined by the tether

the cardinal ranges

none can transgress

days to night birth and death

not trying to impress

with new epistemology

I'm sunk in a way old school

like ancient old you know man?

And very very far from cool

what

2.5175 : 7/4/19 : Freedom (The Experiment: 10/100)

243

could choosing be

the opposite of

freedom

good lord

sure sounds dumb

each choice

a lock

potential

stumbling block

is mere chaos

the alternative

I can't make sense

of how we live

what

2.5174 : 7/3/19 : Pattern (The Experiment: 9/100)

The pattern long established there

how swiftly could it change

Trying to bind the other tracks

adapt and rearrange

unknowing if the shift it marks

could truly move the dial

The dirty secret of it all

just time to waste and while

I told the pattern chanced upon

may we fix things at the start

but all that stands in every way

know too well in my heart

and in the endless chatter of

this dialog of days

could ever a result true yield

and so the pattern frays

what

2.5173 : 7/2/19 : Design (The Experiment: 8/100)

So this experiment

badly designed

what are the parameters

and how so aligned

and so like me

not to have thought

things through

how the hell you think

I got here

at this halfway

point with you

call it sheer random

or by strange design

still trying to

figure out the question

Still hoping for a sign

what

2.5172 : 7/1/19 : Dodge (The Experiment: 7/100)

Hardly getting data

now just

dodging questions

I'll sort it out myself

not looking for

suggestions

drag it back

across the line

tomorrow

dodge the

conclusion

find another

platitude

to borrow

what

2.5171 : 6/30/19 : Ignition (The Experiment: 6/100)

Slowly walk back

ambition

maybe conceive

a slow plan

to ignition

always on about

the plan

the path

when the market

rouses

always take a bath

if I'd just proudly

stand my place

with the losers

might finally connect

with my true

end users

what

2.5170 : 6/29/19 : Design (The Experiment: 5/100)

By design

no bad results

the unwanted

outcome

quantifies my faults

can't get a hook

in the new

pattern

gaze ahead

I'll get it

that turn

get away with

blaming one

on the modern necessity

might yet pull it back

if I refuse to

let it mess with me

what

2.5169 : 6/28/19 : Stumbles (The Experiment: 4/100)

So soon in

the effort stumbles

classic: call me

Doctor Fumbles

is any difference

evident

just as bumbling

just as impotent

what

2.5168 : 6/27/19 : Swamp (The Experiment: 3/100)

Giving swamps

a bad name

in the real thing

best not to drain

find another word

to describe this bucket

riding on my shoulders

maybe a thorn to pluck at

that gives thorns

a bad name

nothing in nature

like this wack game

try to exercise

scream and stomp

wishing to retreat

escape into the swamp

what

2.5167 : 6/26/19 : The Hypothesis (The Experiment: 2/100)

The hypothesis is

already in trouble

hitting outliers

till I'm seeing double

hey does the science

lingo make me sound smart

easy to predict

never again play that part

but the final nail

as long as I'm on a roll

is my sample is one

and I have no control

what

2.5166 : 6/25/19 : The Experiment (The Experiment: 1/100)

Have to get at

a little earlier

intent a

little burlier

what I once

foresaw so prescient

still yet thus

the experiment

what

2.5165 : 6/24/19 : BRO

My bro

must be doing

all right

all kinds of

wierdo gear

in the

studio white

don't covet no more

just happy

to see

my bro working

doubt he

recalls me

what

2.5164 : 6/23/19 : Fragility

For sure I

got that fragility

is change

in my ability

my upbringing

you know

land as white

as frequent snow

another job

another failure

to correct

trying to reach out

to only connect

what

2.5163 : 6/22/19 : Spoke

This spoke

on the distinctly

non-perpetual

wheel

can't seem to

sever the knot

or get the

dream train

real

what

2.5162 : 6/21/19 : My Ecology

The ecology

is getting buggy

been there

done that

when the weather

gets muggy

inside

outside

jeeze is this

all the cycle perpetual

my ecology

and all else

is conceptual

what

2.5161 : 6/20/19 : Deck

Got a full deck

two jokers

and a list

of hands

let me speak up

so they'll hear me

in the back of

the stands

I'll only shuffle

for a minute more

the start

to deal

you cut is

coming

ante up

big wheel

what

2.5160 : 6/19/19 : Heave Ho

Time for the

heave ho

for many mockers

for those about

to salute

blow off

the rockers

and get on

with simplification

frugality

consolidation

what

2.5159 : 6/18/19 : Superstructure

Build a

superstructure

build an
infrastructure

a lot more work

and in it for

a long time

the plan's

Still rickety

plotted

insufficiently

ear still at

the wall

waiting on the

key chime

what

2.5158 : 6/17/19 : Props

Do it with props

run till it pops

running around

track down the sound

I don't like

the pattern

so I'll

simply change

somewhere round

the 7 year bend

it sure got strange

and I guess I've

recovered

but a darkness

persists

and the

offramp is

hidden in the mists

what

way back along

And that wraps up the Songs of Days volume 2.24: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? We'll just move it right along to Volume 2.25, entitled Such Stuff As Dreams.

what

2.5157 : 6/16/19 : One Foot Out the Door

I threw it out

wayback along

not to say

it was ever not wrong

nobody had

to give me the talk

when do I get to walk

one foot out the door

one in the bear trap

I was sleep walking

never heard the snap

stationary target

easy to knock me down a peg

but I might just get along

Once I gnaw off that leg

what

2.5156 : 6/15/19 : Time Has Passed

Time has passed

that's something

holy hell

it's galling

if I cared

I'd be livid

the contrast baby

it's vivid

what

2.5155 : 6/14/19 : So Hard

This shouldn't be so hard

straighten up lay a card

get in the slim percent

where all the gurus went

where all the swamis fled

all canon in your head

Old enough now to calcify

I hope as a stand up guy

So hard to ignore the news

Go dark while the dark age brews

 

2.5154 : 6/13/19 : Shut It

I should know better

I should shut it

be a go getter

when it gets tough

gut it

just be a winner

stop complaining

stop protesting

stop explaining

what

2.5153 : 6/12/19 : The Gateway

The gateway of

everything that ever was

trips so lightly

off the tongue

really we're

in a deep well

at the far end

a sparse bead strung

is this a saga

or a tuba solo

incompetently played

by a dumb fool

would you really want to

Call up the gateway

probably wipe me out

but hey it will look cool

what

2.5152 : 6/11/19 : Disturb

Hilarious

do I dare disturb

like the universe

would notice

me kicking the curb

hanging

griping

nothing but talk

should only meditate

and take a walk

watch the plate and fork

mind the refurb

and don't bother to worry

what I might disturb

what

2.5151 : 6/10/19 : Cobble

Call halt

due to time

spent cobbling

story of decades

in theory I'm hobbling

to some finish

better left

undescribed

some unlabeled

potion

better left unimbibed

what

2.5150 : 6/9/19 : Placebo

Take the placebo

guessing the affliction

is mostly in the mind

like anxiety, addiction

like mortal fear

the apprehension to save

a world unaware of me

Why rant why rave

just take the placebo

and get at the task

well it feels real enough

if you have to ask

what

2.5149 : 6/8/19 : Pack

Comes the pack

well I remember

little enough

left of that ember

is it the fine source

I need to tap

and if I can't get there

guess it gets built from scrap

what

2.5148 : 6/7/19 : Regimen

Seven and

seventy

days of regimen

the heavy

the plod

the real time

by god

by gosh

and by gut

the lean

past

the glut

what

2.5147 : 6/6/19 : Hobby

Forget importance

pick up a hobby

since we're all cooling

our heels in this lobby

wait for the call up

must be a next rank

something smells off bro

not much in the tank

what

2.5146 : 6/5/19 : Productivity

Forget myself

in minor

productivity

pretend there is

some aim to this

proclivity

run it all

over on a loop

forget it

this thought

flew the coop

what

2.5145 : 6/4/19 : Crank

Sure I'm a

crank

well I

want one

to turn it

up

well I'm

a blunt one

look from

here

the scene

spells doom

Somewhere

in the clockwork

hope like hell

some spark

goes boom

what

2.5144 : 6/3/19 : Story

Because the thing

doesn't work

like a story

probably the future

is going to

get gory

maybe knock

my little perch out

oh well

make a channel

and get the merch out

either let me

forget it

and get on sinking

like the rest

or show me the

damn arena

and unleash the test

what

2.5143 : 6/2/19 : Stunt

Pure stunt

got nothing sincere

something

with nothing

So me

so here

that memory trip

at two removes

is giving me

the grippe

don't wake me

from the depths

again

and I'll try

not to slip

what

2.5142 : 6/1/19 : Abstraction

Abstraction

Aspiration

Consternation

This routine

Want to

beat the cycle

it's so tough

and mean

I try so hard

to conceive

a real

alternative

can I even

stand to say

I've got

something to give

what

2.5141 : 5/31/19 : Pearl

So easy to declare

I have faith

in the pearl

of such

great price

you know it girl

the moment

I see it

sell all I own

finally to

every fortune's wind

I'm thrown

what

2.5140 : 5/30/19 : POLITICS

Up to my ears

in politics

what god did I

offend in this mix

guess what everybody

has got one of

when do I get to

say I'm done bruv?

how did I get on

this dust up

oh how I'd love

to go and bust up

who wants to

turn it all over

better luck

turning up under clover

what

2.5139 : 5/29/19 : Dome

Future efforts to

hack this fevered dome

the current estate it hits

a little too close to home

recalling journals written

in some can in the

old tower

the ivory age-gilded

feeling the

nadir of my power

if I ever had any

oh maybe

it was all just feeling

the dark spirit is on me

and I'm reeling

what

2.5138 : 5/28/19 : Trick

Try this trick

by no means the

first shot

I think I want

to get past

what I once got

imaginary journeys

and hype talk

it's a long road

and such a seeming

random walk

I left that

ping pong ball

in the court of the almighty

I flail around a bit

but you couldn't

say I'm flighty

what

2.5137 : 5/27/19 : Flag

Every so often

just fly that one finger flag

to express my distress

at the unceasing

dirty

drag

what

2.5136 : 5/26/19 : Bum

Bum knee

numb hand

slack gut

one man band

fake teeth

shoulders foxed

trick colon

ye houses get poxed

better start doing

every thing I can

Because it's a long life sometimes

and I'm falling apart man

what

2.5135 : 5/25/19 : Self Evident

The strikeline failed

self-evident

right here the same

self-referent

the little errors

fix them in post

If I even get there

may well like most

what will recall

some other version

hey there you

how goes the recursion?

what

2.5134 : 5/24/19 : Apples

Still on

how you like

them apples?

get on your bike

and pedal off

into the sunset

at least for once

heroes won't be the gun set

what

2.5133 : 5/23/19 : BOYCOTT

Disappointing

fortune

hey Lord

about this

portion

let's talk

about this timing

I might just

boycott rhyming

what

2.5132 : 5/22/19 : Brace

Bind it in a brace

could make

a difference

replace

the strange

sensation

in this paw

if not

well just another

straw

what

2.5131 : 5/21/19 : 2nd

The thought about

a second verse

is making the thing

longer

better or worse

blow it off

and soon forget

and why come back

and why not quit?

what

2.5130 : 5/20/19 : Irrelevant

Irrelevant Irrelevant

in this room

there is no elephant

they all decamped

and what then

ramped

got damn direct

It's close:

I checked

what

2.5129 : 5/19/19 : Resolution

High grain

noise ratio high

hope a decent

turn in

for a change is high

Would better

Resolution

Mean all that much?

Would it turn

things or just focus as such

what

2.5128 : 5/18/19 : Lead Inevitably

These efforts to mark

the turning point

lead inevitably

to failing

Until you reach

the breach

You cannot plan

your assailing

this night for sure

is a tale to be told

but I've not heart now for telling

call it a tree

in some forest remote

a silence uninhabited

is felling

what

2.5127 : 5/17/19 : SINK

maybe there's

no more story

just move

shit around

So many

maybes

Why

make a sound

Why keep

stringing

teasing the flip

tempting fate

to sink

this ship

what

2.5126 : 5/16/19 : The Contender

Almost got to

thinking about the

contender

to hell with

that

conversation ender

must look

ahead

now forever

hold my

pen

while I

whip up this endeavor

what

2.5125 : 5/15/19 : Bolt

There's just one way

to shoot

this bolt

go to ground

pupate

and molt

just drop

one pin

and in the

hush

I'll draw

the bolt

and jump

the rush

what

2.5124 : 5/14/19 : Square

On one side

the silly tales

on on side

the mystery veils

on one side

the tedium

it's all so square

one short the sum

what

2.5123 : 5/13/19 : Punk

Where the

air cushion

hits the

post apocalyptic

tarmac

like eighties

hover punk

I guess

you feel me Jack?

the tossing out

the string-along

not much of

a world-build

truth to tell

the plot is thin

and that's one

lily

I can't gild

what

2.5122 : 5/12/19 : Passion Project

Passion project

revisit the old

raise it up a level

If I may be so bold

I couldn't want your brief

like I could ever hack it

but to have the access

if anyone would back it

and what would be

the project of my heart

back to the science at last

or the masks, second part?

or finally make that trip

the island of the coast

seems like I still don't know

what suits my passion most

what

2.5121 : 5/11/19 : Pinched and Thrumming

More trouble

sure we've been

around this old

refrain

true enough

blame the grind

the injury

the strain

something

bound up

pinched

and thrumming

don't ask me

just now

if a better day

is coming

what

2.5120 : 5/10/19 : So Dumb

A plan so dumb

it just might fail

snake master class

to bite the tail

but funny times

might well get failed

proprietary

and silence railed

what

2.5119 : 5/9/19 : Net

Will not tell

the secret

of the net

Can't tell yet

if I've lost

the bet

I'm feeling

not so hot

for real

just hope

to break out

of the spiel

what

2.5118 : 5/8/19 : Secret

I'll keep the secret

none will ever hear for years

won't even recognize

though I'll be all ears

familiar faces

but a whole new scene

So many fine years

when love comes springing green

The secret's better

than the one I'd think

starting right here

and oh it goes by in a blink

what

2.5117 : 5/7/19 : Cat Heads

King of the cat heads

another lost tribe

don't quote me

no scripture

you can't teach

this scribe

Why not return

half the world

to the wild

we'll drift to the

forest

find those cats

my child

what

2.5116 : 5/6/19 : Novelty

Do my thing

describe the thing

I can't do

Like about

the novelty

work it through

like to think

they're placeholders

do I ever circle back

too caught up in

the day to day

just grind and stack

what

2.5115 : 5/5/19 : Recruit

If you really wanted

to recruit

you should do

that thing

make disease

disappear

the mystery I see

You'll think I'm not astute

it was

never anything

it's the obvious take

and I've got ears

but can I hear?

what

2.5114 : 5/4/19 : Holiday

Going to

try another bid

on the dumbest holiday

and another warrior

went across today

and oh I wonder

does it matter

what anyone must say?

help me to be the change

I counted out

9 phases

almost 4 dumb decades

and utter vanity

to say I'm marching my brigades

Maybe in November

there'll be cause

for some parades

help me to be the change

what

2.5113 : 5/3/19 : That Narrative

snap like that

and be done with

that narrative

Like about

how long back

I said something's

gotta give

and could there

ever be a plot

like none

ever before seen

hilarious

a new thing

under the sun

and starting clean

what

2.5112 : 5/2/19 : Vanguard

A different front

a vanguard

the unsung dream

get up!

go hard

At what

for what

again the rub

fire the kettle

full hell brew

rack off

the trub

what

2.5111 : 5/1/19 : The Front

Can I keep the Front up

until I'm put down

Don't you pay no heed

to that brief frown

not on the mark

not even close

watch the young comers

right on the nose

If it wasn't a front

Lord what would it be?

and what, for that goal

would be the parsimony

what

2.5110 : 4/30/19 : Only Upside

Divided focus

and distraction

a bare hair

better than

pure inaction

or so I tell

my bad only

never ever quitting

sure gets lonely

but you could hit

call it the top

the only upside

it's a short drop

what

2.5109 : 4/29/19 : Hardball

Got to

start playing

hardball

I guess

track down

the juice

start to clean

up the mess

If I could

just figure out

who's ranked

against

I'm going in

skeptical

I'll go out

convinced

what

2.5108 : 4/28/19 : Banging

Banging on

You could call

it an inspiration

if you're dumb as a wall

thrown over

paid well and enough

how long oh Lord

is it gonna stay so rough?

what

2.5107 : 4/27/19 : Big Can

Try a big ran

try to relax

enough to throw another

example on the stacks

I need to big can

I need to believe

'cause I'll only get one go 'round

all in one tired sleeve

try one last shot

at this old stupid thing

see it again in seven years

hope it has

a long past it ring

what

2.5106 : 4/26/19 : Frequent Disasters

Numb in the

extremities

Who the hell

knows

frequent

disasters

or so the

feeling grows

Stay

optimistic

hey my

secret power

I'm going to

bolt it in

this very hour

what

2.5105 : 4/25/19 : Jazz Punk

Which came first

the jazz police

or the jazz punk

Column a or

Column be

hork up more junk

as irredeemable

what more

could I hope

I asked the

jazz punk

Could it be seen?

Said: nope

what

2.5104 : 4/24/19 : Shame

Tales of shame

half baked fame

this dumbass detour

I need the rest cure

feel my damn age

look like a torn page

doesn't feel like shame

Still can't get in the game

what

2.5103 : 4/23/19 : Mean

Is God nice or mean

that's a throwaway

ain't it old bean

hah that's not

what I meant by mean

who else could get so meta

and slide through clean

and who the hell

gets to call

what gets called all

and still I ask

What does it all mean

as I hit the next wall

what

2.5102 : 4/22/19 : Pilot

I need to

proselytize

the small start

I need to

explain the necessity

of the pilot

if we can

put a stupid

car into space

to rectify this

moronic age

damn it, why not?

Why not why not

I can give you a thousand

reasons why we won't

stopping this bonkers

build would feel so good

oh but yet we don't

what

2.5101 : 4/21/19 : The Inheritance

Up early like

the old story

rain and thunder

Short on glory

how on earth

do I keep lifting my chin

to hell with it

come noon we begin

come midnight

I'll be drenched in dreams

and for once

the sight that comes

will be what it seems

and ripening late

the inheritance

it its time will come

to feel like the first chance

what

2.5100 : 4/20/19 : None the Wise Ancients

None the wise ancients quite

treat this affliction

excess of vitriol

excess of diction

articulate inward

inhumed radiation

introspect radio

jammed on that station

suppose that I know it

the are ex

the method

nothing to seek

but to follow one breath would

suspend over scores

and battalions of nights

might quiet the affliction

show distant the heights

what

2.5099 : 4/19/19 : Devout

Missing the mark

on the devout state

asked to watch

but cannot

stay awake

A little late

to claim the

Cause of grief

And wondering

what on earth

could bring relief

what

2.5098 : 4/18/19 : Touch and Go

I can't hack this

touch and go

no mo'

when will the

old bad habit

go

how much longer

Can I skirt the pit

ever other time

At last I

fell into it

what

2.5097 : 4/17/19 : Tedious

Oh so dark

So tedious

So overwrought

So needy, us

the corpse brigade

that grows and grows

and what a wrench

that dark

dance throws

what

2.5096 : 4/16/19 : 10K

Does the 10K hours

thing scan?

even swing it

with the master plan

if I was so

on it

so seldom weak

So careful to

do to

less and less

speak

for I still dream

though I tried

so hard

to give up

and sell out

try like hell

to find out

what the 10K's 

all about

what

2.5095 : 4/15/19 : Cookie Oracle

Lamest observance

hope to be

past it soon

feeling unlikely

the paths out of tune

the cookie

oracle

says my

Magwitch is

in the wings

but I know

better better

next day

the same bell rigns

what

2.5094 : 4/14/19 : Mix

The mix ups

are funny

on the little screen

here in the

real real

well you know

what I mean

What passes

for real

in the post-modern

sludge

all muddles in

together

to one

unremitting drudge

what

2.50923: 4/13/19 : The War

Give it merely

60 years or so

And we can all joke

about the war

Could it be

probably

nobody left really

cares what it was for

what

2.5092 : 4/12/19 : The Method

What's the method

going to be

this time around

Who drove

these spikes in

maybe because

I forsook the Big Sound

Too well I

recognize

the second rate

Why I

Keep the secret harder

sanguine in my fate

what

2.5091 : 4/11/19 : Straws

Just piling straws

on this broke camel

no reprieve

for this sorry mammal

Praying oh what for

fear to say

deliver me for one night

anyway

what

2.5090 : 4/10/19 : Brass

In dream realm

vacation

ditching

the road trip

just want to

fly around

first class

rock the gentry tip

daydreaming

20 years

reunion tour

it'll come to nothing

for want of brass

I'm sure

what

2.5089 : 4/9/19 : Anachronism

The anachronism of

both punk

and cyber

even for I

the sci fi cup

imbiber

the usual

fetish

with a coat of grot

guess it's just

a jug

and you and

I, robot

what

2.5088 : 4/8/19 : Rough Start

Rough start

for the reinsertion

what to blame

no point to

cast aspersion

Plenty of reasons

to go around

but it's just not the

season

to go aground

what

2.5087 : 4/7/19 : Role Model

Writing off this search

for a role model

get smart about this

wicked world like Aristotle

Ignorance is in

full flower

no obstruction to

dark power

time to call again

the black angel's name

the only one that every time

I called, came

no more mister nice guy

oh my innocent babes

and the consequence will blow

you mind like honest Abe's

what

2.5086 : 4/6/19 : Back Home Delight

How to buy off

the night

got back home:

delight

cause for

heavy thanks

always the best part

not quite the

launch I need

but a good start

what

the once and future realm of thinking

I'm sure it's happened before but in this last song, Decamp, I am for the first time noting an instance where the song I'm posting was (when it was written in 2019) clearly referencing what I was posting on the blog (songs from 2012) at the time I wrote it. Or what I was about to be posting, the noted "trip fantastic" being the series Mt. Metaphor, which commenced with an unannounced prologue (song 2.2531, written 4/7/2012, posted 4/7/2019, and ran (in its formal numbered series) in songs 2532 to 2589, written April 8th to June 4th, 2012, and posted in its turn seven years later. I'd tell you to go check it out except nobody actually reads this.

what

2.5085 : 4/5/19 : Decamp

Decamp

from the onetime

realm of thinking

think about

the long depression

clear as anything

look to the

halfway home

on the cusp

of a trip fantastic

in some whole

other tome

what

2.5084 : 4/4/19 : Could Have Been Worse

Unrelated to

the present affair

postmodern

fairytale

takes me there

could have gone down

that rabbit hole

not hard to estimate

the trajectory

of that toll

Could have been worse

a case for thanks

not quite a platform

but maybe

a case of planks

what

2.5083 : 4/3/19 : Transformation 5

Sole tool quiet

inaction

evolution

settlement

clarity

without transaction

transformation

five, twelve

seventeen thousand times

toss out new lives

like nickles

and dimes

what

2.5082 : 4/2/19 : Limbs

Is thius

seizing of the limbs

a metaphor?

mute psyche

on attack

and nothing more

wrong side of

the brain

should be articulate

look for the

bright side

but I'm sick of that

what

2.5081 : 4/1/19 : Husk

This mere husk

fruit

or root

nowhere to

be seen

the stupid

same

lantern play

behind the

screen

thinking

another dismal sleep

thinking I'm

a dumb dumb

sheep

what

2.5080 : 3/31/19 : SPOT

Wish it were

there

but it's

not

no interest

leave

nothing

in the spot

what

2.5079 : 3/30/19 : Action Item 16

Necessary brief

action item 16

dictates like Tao

to exit the scene

To make another

at a page's turn

at this rate

I might even learn

what