2.5267: 10/4/19 : Square

Square up the edges

align my pins

reach up to the sky

touch my shins

square my shoulders

breathe in deeply

let it out slowly

it won't come cheaply

what

2.5266: 10/3/19 : The Uncertainty Factor

Hardly know where

my head's at these days

And the uncertainty

factor just weighs

an my shoulders my chest

a rest cure would be best

but that's not in

the cards this side

maybe of the sod roof

Surely of the senior ride

tell myself to

focus on the fundamentals

and lighten up all

mortal raiments are just rentals

It's just that uncertainty

factor pressing

on my head and my chest

a rest cure would be best

what

abstract

So what was the 100 song series I called "The Experiment"? Not a hundred percent sure to be honest. There's nothing clear to connect the songs, no marginal notes of explanation. I think it may have been an attempt to write the songs first thing in the morning, there seem to be a few allusions to this among the lyrics. A little mystery anyway, wrapped up if not solved.

what

2.5265 : 10/2/19 : Secret (The Experiment: 100/100)

So this age is getting run

by mockers and fools

I show up early

try to play by the rules

Limit of my relevance

approaches zero fast

Some my litany may be

fully secret at last

keep the secret:

nobody left to tell

no clear objective for years

probably just as well

persistence becomes easy

habit's inertial drift

and I'd the survival bit gets ugly

There's always shorter shrift

always some scrap to write on

always a pencil stub

who knows what it could come to

You tell me future schlub

maybe even optimism

a renewed lease

one experiment is done

but I must keep saying

me secret piece

keep the secret...

what

2.5264 : 10/1/19 : Finish Line (The Experiment: 99/100)

Messing up

in the eleventh

hour

how I'll page

through

how I'll scour

try to nail it

on the

finish line

bad science

and all fault is mine

what

2.5263 : 9/30/19 : Play Through (The Experiment: 98/100)

Watch the

play through

cradle to grave

fast forward

all the dull parts

no checkpoints

no save

even this grand

experiment

will only be

a slice

that still

exacts a price

what

2.5262 : 9/29/19 : Real Science (The Experiment: 97/100)

In real science

the data run is just the start

this is no science

I'd had to debate

it's even art

a protracted

growl of protest

I didn't get the

crown I wanted

and it hurts

down in my chest

You could call me

heartsick

I get afraid it's

not an idle phrase

and these eye teeth

are far too long

to gloss it as

a passing phase

what

2.5261 : 9/28/19 : Work Hard (The Experiment: 96/100)

Meant to think

bigger

but I just

worked hard

I maybe got

the black spot

but they put it

on a black card

put it in a

black box

Locked in a

black safe

worked hard

but this

white lab coat's

starting to chafe

what

2.5260 : 9/27/19 : HOPE (The Experiment: 95/100)

To be so glad

so full of hope

I'm just so happy

Joel is

your dream in scope

My network spans

the ever loving globe

mix with me, watch

opportunities strobe

they knock seven times

and seventy

times seven

what can I see

we are

the messengers of

heaven

what

2.5259 : 9/26/19 : ADVICE (The Experiment: 94/100) To be so glad

Got to try to stick the landing

get my abstract written nice

everything has gone so badly

who better to give advice

routine will not replace

decision is the trend

Suppose that I'm supposed to

wait for experiment to end

too many words and

no picture's still my main complaint

like to say I'm optimistic

bless you if you is but I ain't

what

2.5258 : 9/25/19 : Territory (The Experiment: 93/100)

The better wiser

one maybe

a million floors above

I used to dream

might get it to a thousand

good to feel self love

but I know my place

my territory very small

maybe someday

get to where

it doesn't bother me at all

what

2.5257 : 9/24/19 : Something Like (The Experiment: 92/100)

Put away more

and still more

try to figure out

What anything's for

something like a sieve

something like a still

anything sweet left to

temper this bitter pill

is the goal to be content

or angry enough to leap

could I turn it around

with a little more sleep

I read our hearts are

made to endure

chasing down the long game

has a certain allure

by the end of this run

to have something like a plan

to get me somewhere

though I'm surely and also-ran

what

2.5256 : 9/23/19 : RAW (The Experiment: 91/100)

These raw materials

What do I expect

What could be a source of change

can't recall if I checked

the cupboards the dusty shelves

the boxes buried way back

So to speak you understand

to resupply this hack

could be in my technique

are there lessons I could take

Some books to get to okay

some seminar to partake

tempted to get out of the kitchen

'Cause I sure don't like the heat

except I like even less

the idea of them thinking I'm beat

what

2.5255 : 9/22/19 : Long Walk (The Experiment: 90/100)

Seeing hints of

one long journey ending

these parallel strands

Can get mind bending

Superstition makes me

want to see a turning point

the next day's sameness

I'll surely pay in every joint

Cultivate in the kingdom

maybe made sense way back

A couple hundred B.C. man

What would you make

of this time track?

The clever gadgets omnipresent

far too many

to keep as uncarved blocks

like a hell of complexity

see no solution

but a hundred long walks

what

2.5254 : 9/21/19 : Casting (The Experiment: 89/100)

Get on the horn

and fire casting

clearly I'm

in the wrong role

let's get blasting

make me a void

the size of my soul

what's this tackle

I'm casting

See what I did there

mixing my metaphors

a feast of words

I'm straight fasting

do the next thousand

by semaphore

what

2.5253 : 9/20/19 : Jams (The Experiment: 88/100)

A lot of jams

times feeling like

nothing but

go on take a hike

truly nobody

watching now

Someday maybe

they'll wonder how

what

2.5252 : 9/19/19 : The Concept of the Self (The Experiment: 87/100)

Psyche I'm not

even going to

talk about that

get that guy

right out

put on a wizard hat

oh if the construct

could be

all eradicated

and only the

necessary truth

be stated

are any of them

to be frank

really songs

what's worth doing

besides

banging gongs

what

2.5251 : 9/18/19 : Shunt (The Experiment: 86/100)

Long as I'm

late on all fronts

try to get the wheels back

on the science shunt

Gotta keep

appearances sprightly

towards a goal, sure

moving confident

and rightly

what

2.5250 : 9/17/19 : Upside Down (The Experiment: 85/100)

Upside down

underwater

could we be

learning

got no spotter

do the

heavy lifting

all alone

and they won't

even throw me

a bone

what

2.5249 : 9/16/19 : Too Late (The Experiment: 84/100)

Too late

what the whisper

is always saying

lately

I'm not even praying

either it's nothing

or I can't

Crack the code

yeah what about

after they explode?

what