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Jimmy silker Jul 16
A dog will
Lick you to death
If you stop moving
A cat
Will eat your flesh
If they
Situation
Improving
  Jul 16 Jimmy silker
Jude
The air is cold and
he is having a hard time to breath
again,
his throat swollen and a salt
taste lingering behind.

a swallow crosses the air and outpaces
his life.
laughter is sounding from out of their nests
that ever move to
warmer places.

so he unbuttons his shirt and
flies along.
Jimmy silker Jul 16
I couldn't hear you cry
Underneath
My own obsession
Though
I wouldn't have known the sound
Beneath
What I viewed
As passion
It was easy
At the time
The things
I
Viewed
As
Prescient
Though they don't mean
Nowt to me now
There's not a chance
We could
Be begin again.
Jimmy silker Jul 15
On Io
The eruptions
End up like pancakes
So hot
And liquid
They are
The plumes
Go so high
And get spread that much
The edges so far


Just a bit bigger
Than our moon
It's spew
On account
Of the friction
Between
It's daddy
And his own sons
Familial
Contradiction
Jimmy silker Jul 15
My grandad lasted
Till 96
My auld fellah
Tapped out
At 74
Following that
Timeline
I should have died
Three years ago
Beat the house already
Oh what joy!
  Jul 15 Jimmy silker
Geof Spavins
I love when traffic flows like dreams –
said nobody ever, in rush hour screams.
And Mondays? A warm embrace.
Especially with deadlines breathing in your face.

“Please, more spam emails,” they plead with grace –
said nobody ever, not one trace.
I cherish the printer’s stubborn stall,
mid-report, mid-panic, down the hall.

Dishwater coffee, ambrosia divine –
said nobody ever, not even in line.
And meetings that could've been one line of text,
are truly the moments I cherish the next.

Oh joy, another group chat ping! –
said nobody ever, in the midst of a meeting.
There's nothing like socks lost in the wash,
or autocorrect turning love into squash.

But still we smile, and carry on,
with half-done mornings and the curtains drawn.
For life’s absurdities have a clever tether:
they’re oddly poetic - said nobody ever.
Jimmy silker Jul 15
No ones
Ever seen me before
So what could they be after?
He who would valiantly be
Gainst all disaster
Like Gregory Peck
In that church
When he raised his dagger
I know I'll get shot
But who will
Communicate
What goes after?
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