Sunday, August 09, 2026

2.5211 : 8/9/19 : Something Nice (The Experiment: 46/100)

If I can't say something
nice
how does that
go again?
do I make
something up
think they'll
notice when
I go quiet
never knowing when to start
or was that
where to start
Sure, be still
my heart

what

Saturday, August 08, 2026

2.5210 : 8/8/19 : Blank (The Experiment: 45/100)

Drawing a blank
gets me thinking on
who has been transformed
and what about me
am I yet reformed
firmly fixed
in a supposed
power locus
could I sieze, direct it
If I just had focus
don't actually feel
like I've got much control
in need of rehabilitation
of my world weary soul

what

Friday, August 07, 2026

2.5209 : 8/7/19 : Kick (The Experiment: 44/100)

Kick right into it
ain't that the experiment
was the point to charge the night
work out where all that time went
Pushing halfway outcomes seems
to be it doesn't change a scrap
like big surprise like color me
oops lost my thread oh well oh snap

what

2.5208 : 8/6/19 : S.O.S. (The Experiment: 43/100)

Not a distress call
It's a slogan, y'all
You could say it rhymes
with Inflame Cold Grit
almost inspirational
the original
is not a bit
just another wave
of anxiety
blank, pessimistic
mundanity
the asylum is
a listing barge
All captains crazy
all crazy in charge
and the S.O.S.
is drowned in bleats
and most will go down
never left
their seats

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Wednesday, August 05, 2026

2.5207 : 8/5/19 : One Place (The Experiment: 42/100)

Stay in one place
how goes the race
don't ask dad
this is not dew on my face
Easy to predict
the outcome of late
not much will change
in the disunited state
and sure every generation
thinks we hit the wall for real
but this latest round of chaos
has a different feel
or so I say
when I should be recreating
try to elevate the tone
in the next reiterating

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2.5206 : 8/4/19 : Management (The Experiment: 41/100)

Sure not a fan of
their management today
save it, slappy
I know just what you're gonna say
I don't occupy eternity
the long view's not my luxury
If They can't make it work
here and now Their deal's spiritual usury
And I know your answers too
across the other aisle
and I know how I look
slumping this moron's mile
Guess I deserve to be
judged by the company I keep
let both sides think what they will
Like, I know talk is cheap

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Monday, August 03, 2026

2.5205 : 8/3/19 : Wildflower (The Experiment: 40/100)

Say wildflower
like there's
any other kind
I'd like to mirror
you in my mind
just
nod at the sun
Seems the only
way forward is
to sever every grasp
bob wind-free
where I want to clasp
and see
there really is no one

what

Sunday, August 02, 2026

2.5204 : 8/2/19 : Receptive (The Experiment: 39/100)

North facing window
soon see snow
seems impossible right now
and that's exactly
how things go
trying to get online
tuned in
receptive
try to turn off
the stream of invective
that always turns inward
always impedes
I know what I have
to do
but man I'm lost in the reeds

what

Saturday, August 01, 2026

2.5203 : 8/1/19 : ABUNDANCE (The Experiment: 38/100)

Now to the anxious dreams
the opposite of abundance
I'm tired of the show
you know it's not a fun dance
I can't keep up the principle
no scarcity no striving
inside a nervous grasping
fears the future's new arriving
see it as the burden of
the day, no real condition
try to stand up straight and say
Still present for the mission

what

Friday, July 31, 2026

2.5202 : 7/31/19 : Challenge Phase (The Experiment: 37/100)

Real challenge phase
gets its mark
call that a challenge
boy must lack spark
don't judge me
I'm still afflicted
and I've plenty of ways yet
go get it contradicted

what

Thursday, July 30, 2026

2.5201 : 7/30/19 : Wise One (The Experiment: 36/100)

It's time to call the
reckoning
if the pattern fits
We're going down
to earth
deep where the
wise one sits
and if your
question isn't ready
why you'll waste
Your chance
why'd you come
on to the party
if you didn't
plan to dance
Worry: maybe there's
no wise ones
just fancy robes
mull that ugly
take, while
the floor light strobes

what

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

2.5200 : 7/29/19 : Cup of Tea (The Experiment: 35/100)

cup of tea
and hearken back
some thousands
nice work
for a hack
I hack and cough
familiar trough
nice work
admire
cast it off
a century
still few are free
but can't deny us
a nice cup of tea

what

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

2.5199 : 7/28/19 : Soft (The Experiment: 34/100)

tell you I
deserve soft transition
pray silence
precedes ignition
and this affliction
is a passing storm
merely harbinger
of an advanced from

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Monday, July 27, 2026

2.5198 : 7/27/19 : Gimmick (The Experiment: 33/100)

Smashed the gimmick
dumb predicatable
jamming in the
interstices
more damange
inflictable
let me here vow
to eschew
forevermore
to try to make this thing
a marker
of any long past door

what

Sunday, July 26, 2026

2.5197 : 7/26/19 : Think (The Experiment: 32/100)

But I just
think about it instead
And it just
rattles around in my head
with all the others
bits and trinkets
whatever floats by
why I grab on
and think it
and I sure don't
know the solution
and I'm sure not
expecting any revolution

what

Saturday, July 25, 2026

2.5196 : 7/25/19 : Write It Down (The Experiment: 31/100)

So far so good
don't even miss it right
this not so good
someday to be smooth and tight
like a drum like a hum
relax just write it down
there's no penalty for trying
choose a verb over a noun
choose a hope over a fear
see me shredding see me booking
said the teacher will appear
maybe this time I'll be looking

what

Friday, July 24, 2026

2.5195 : 7/24/19 : BIG RED X (The Experiment: 30/100)

I joke about it
what I secretly cling to
I will mark the big red X
and surprisingly bring you
the perfect from now on
the smooth ascent
and that's not even my song
and by noon it's well bent
only to stop
this litany of nonsense
the dumb inner voice
what passes for the present tense
the poetic passage
of an age of regret
X marks the zero start
how long oh Lord oh please reset

what

Thursday, July 23, 2026

2.5194 : 7/23/19 : Distraction (The Experiment: 29/100)

I can claim distraction
quite reasonably
I can blame reaction
the treason of memory
when getting back to zero
sounds like shangri la
If I'm fiddling like Nero
better whip up this Ladida

what

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

2.5193 : 7/22/19 : Recognition (The Experiment: 28/100)

Things change
expect it or not
try to stand still
recognition hits the spot
been here before
and it's oh so hard
to flow with the change
focus on the next yard
what will be my token
Who will deliver
I'll drown you in my pleading
I'll cry you a river

what

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

2.5192 : 7/21/19 : Many Outliers (The Experiment: 27/100)

Does this fit the pattern?
already so many outliers
Try to buck up but oh Mama
could I run with the high fliers
used to call it early riser
same old time and same old place
gave up on the formalism
and oh hell this look on my face
I am dreaming of the pattern
but it will take working ahead
I am trying to see glory
but each time I'm feeling dread
this is the one but one
the only moment other present
I will join the new dominion
tell that president to get bent

what