2.3550 : 1/21/15 : Puzzle (Endless Axis 283/500)

Is this a puzzle

or just a mess

I'd get on top of it

but I got so much stress

Will it yield to me

if I sleep on it tonight

wake me with the answer

steady creep from dim to light

what

2.3549 : 1/20/15 : It Makes You Think (Endless Axis 282/500)

It makes you think

about how the time always

keeps slipping

I read a joint about it

Called count the clock

that shit was gripping

wish we could go back

Knowing what we know

It's just impossible

It makes you think

could it be everything's saved

could be all loss is bull

but is the bad saved too

the agony eternal

ever hanging there

it makes me think

it's typical: no

easy answers anywhere

what

2.3548 : 1/19/15 : Battery (Endless Axis 281/500)

Does the battery have enough

charge in in it?

You'd think so it's sure

enough large i'n'it?

What's left that's

penny for a pound these days?

how will I live with it

If my sound dismays?

I pulled the poison plug

jeez 15 years

just have to dodge the random squirts

the imp aims at my ears

started to charge the battery

and now I'm at my peak

and I'll power up your crazy bike

'Cause you're my kind of freak

what

2.3547 : 1/18/15 : Idea Men (Endless Axis 280/500)

Heaven help me and preserve me

from the idea men

a thousand curses on the fools

who live by the damn pen

my left hand in a bloody box

to the one who can sell me release

cast me into trackless sleep

and bid every idea to cease

what

2.3546 : 1/17/15 : TALL (Endless Axis 279/500)

It's a Right

to turn aside

the storybook mentality

all's well, ever

it's a ride

the black and white duality

but things go on

and things occur

it seems you must make

Something of it all

If you somehow didn't

Still be a story sure

and real and made up

seem equally tall

what

2.3545 : 1/16/15 : Retread (Endless Axis 278/500)

Can I just retread

something already said

oh good shall be saved

and every trial braved

the moment it will come

I'll come in proud welcome

retread that line one more day

a dream but hey that's okay

what

2.3544 : 1/15/15 : Target (Endless Axis 277/500)

My invisible target

my highest point ambition

backed into the same corner

try to squeeze past the attrition

with these tricks of lists and schedules

with this magic charm

with so little firm to go on

but be kind and do less harm

I'm up to my neck in it

these worldly ends and means

I'm down here with the plebeians

we're packed in like sardines

and would I wish to swim upstream

oh would I wish to rise

risk getting eaten by a

bigger fish sure no surprise

but my target looms over

Still enticing, lost, unseen

But if I'm to stop shooting blindly

I'm going to need a new routine

what

2.3543 : 1/14/15 : The Chaos Script (Endless Axis 276/500)

I try to tap the leisure well

but all I get's the chaos script

try again try again try again

or so the motivation robots quipped

If I only had a hero's heart

I would just toss it all and write the book

but I want a sure thing or at least some insurance

So I keep searching searching for that hook

what

2.3542 : 1/13/15 : Wondering (Endless Axis 275/500)

Still wondering

what time's made of

and who makes it

Still wondering

what works this thirst up

What slakes it

will I stop wondering

or breathing first

Will time ever

dull this thirst?

what

2.3541 : 1/12/15 : Pithed (Endless Axis 274/500)

After the ice-pick cold

pithed my skull

the leeches drew their blood

and sent me reeling out

for belly full

And pretty soon

got the pick again

it's a miracle

I can still count to ten

and what's the point

of these mundane tales

What's the point of anything

that won't drive sales

I used to think I had

all that jack dicked

but the pings and yarrows

just picked and picked and picked

what

2.3540 : 1/11/15 : Voices (Endless Axis 273/500)

I don't hear voices

no it's more like a hum

lean in and I'll murmur

where I reckon it's from

this kid I know showed me

two mirrors opposed

and the illusion thus composed

two kids

two tin cans

ten billion strings

why in the hell

am I still counting things

wanna get up up

I deny myself my favorite leaf

and the new one I turned over

was bitter

and gave no relief

Soon the black tide

will roll over

you'll laugh but that's my

bright side

I add that one to the

book of searches

and give thanks to my

thick hide

let me lose the marks and reminders

let me find work

and affix the blinders

and let the not-voices

drone and roar

and let me want

for nothing more

what

2.3539 : 1/10/15 : Hand In It (Endless Axis 272/500)

Betrayal and abandonment

make a good tale

Where's your hand in it

Nowhere in these pages

these passages

Guess I got fed up

Guess I said what gives

I made a little noise

I don't suppose you noticed

I guess I'd a been better off

dwelling on the lotus

or the holy writs

or the stars or yarrow stalks

a nasty little voice says

better listen how the money talks

what

2.3538 : 1/9/15 : Riposte (Endless Axis 271/500)

Every vicious riposte

then what I flashed:

the most

savory return of all

hells yeah

the ball

what

2.3537 : 1/8/15 : Volleys (Endless Axis 270/500)

Get lost among the volleys

So many arrows

I dreamed God took a nap

So I had to count the sparrows

as they flew under the shadows

of ten thousand spinning shafts

and I spun my wheels in shallow surf

ignoring my first drafts

can we not call a truce

I get shouted out from all sides

and I should get this act together

Comes more marches, comes more ides

but I'll end up a pincushion

I go out without a shield

and I still can't seem to stomach

Choosing which weapon to wield

what

2.3536 : 1/7/15 : Drop a Dime (Endless Axis 269/500)

Drop a dime

a penny in this cup

I swear to God

I'm going to quit

and give it up

then I don't

then I don't

then I don't once more

and heaven help me

what the hell's in store

the killer cowards

still running amok

still struggling with the

bottom line and feeling stuck

Still get a glimpse of

majesty

through clouds that briefly part

still not quite halfway there

but

it's more now than a start

what

2.3535 : 1/6/15 : All Along (Endless Axis 268/500)

And just like that

I see: all the wrong reasons

and can't recall the right ones

and thinking of the seasons

all gone oh so

Long long ago

then I remember

and it's still

what it was about all along

what

2.3534 : 1/5/15 : Salton Sea (Endless Axis 267/500)

Dreaming real in a

standard fugue

living on the Salton Sea

burning Partagas

only the desert's free

Don't think about 

beating the odds

outlive the good ones

Stuck with the pods

Expire only half old

On the Salton Sea

build parks for kids

Plant a palm tree

what

2.3533 : 1/4/15 : Previously (Endless Axis 266/500)

Back to the square

previously named

well aware of by whom

I got gamed

best at this point

to keep it zipped

someday hard to believe

but this too got shipped

what

2.3532 : 1/3/15 : The Bottom Line (Endless Axis 265/500)

Could I call this progress

the bottom line's not shifting

Should I write the manifesto

could I straight resort to grifting

try to dowse what's in my nature

savage brevity no edits

Someday I'll tip you to the answers

buried in the final credits

what

2.3531 : 1/2/15 : Even So (Endless Axis 264/500)

Why did I sign up for this

valleys and hills

Why are things run by these

hustlers and shills

What will the future bring

do I want to know

hardly caught up again

but I'll keep my resolution even so

what