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  Aug 9 Jimmy silker
Bardo
At my brother's for Christmas dinner
Sitting there for a moment I felt suddenly like I was the turkey
I thought they were all looking at me kinda funny
It was like they were licking their lips
And saying "Doesn't he look delicious, a lovely big juicy looking bird
It was like I thought they were thinking
We're not likely to win the lotto (the lottery) at our age
We've never been very lucky that way
The best chance of us getting a windfall of money would be
If dear old Uncle Bardo was to suddenly kick the bucket
Then we'd get his house and all his money
We could give up our day jobs and go holidaying for the rest of our lives
We'd be sliding down Easy Street singing like a bunch of sailors
Wouldn't it be great ?
I thought I better watch out, better watch what I'm eating, what their
  giving me
Next time I better bring a food tester/taster along with me
You never know, life is strange.

I suppose it works both ways though, my brother's always a bit reluctant to come down to my house
He doesn't think I'm very hygienic, he says he's always afraid he'll get food poisoning.

I guess it's all just...just in the family.
In the family like in the Mafia LoL. "I know it was you Fredo".
Jimmy silker Aug 9
Will the universe
Select you?
Will it throw you a bone?
Cos not all
constituents
Get chosen
You asked them all
To just leave you alone
To float in the depths
Permafrozen
Is it because of your virtue
Or lottery like?
All notions
Of the righteous
Can get on their bike

Will you swirl
With the other dust
In ecstatic dance
Or dwindle to nowt?
What is the chance?
  Aug 9 Jimmy silker
Mark Bell
Prickly as a cactus
Cunning as a fox
A pretty live wire
A Jack in the box.
Sweet Marie
A burning flame
You need to
Lighten up
To play
The loving game.
You have a kind heart
Beautiful eyes,
Exterior so hard
You make the sun cry.
I will persevere
To bring out the
Kindness in you
Break through the hardness
It’s what I shall do.
  Aug 8 Jimmy silker
Mira
Here, I suffer—not from wounds of flesh,
But from the torment of the mind’s cruel mesh.
Each thought a thread, each thread a chain,
Binding my soul in silent pain.

I am abused by time’s relentless hand,
That parts two hearts meant to stand.
Not in conflict, nor in spite,
But by the ticking of day to night.

Time does not wound like blade or flame,
It steals in silence, without name.
It pulls you far, while I remain,
A shadow wrapped in sweet refrain.

I call your name in midnight air,
But only echoes answer there.
My heart still knows the rhythm true
Of every breath that once was you.

Yet I believe—no, I know—deep down,
Fate will not let this love be drowned.
Time, too, shall one day weave,
Two destined souls it will conceive.

If I had the power, I’d hold time still,
Freeze the stars by sheerest will.
Let sun and moon forget their dance,
To give our story one more chance.

I’d build a world where clocks don’t chime,
Where love exists outside of time.
A space untouched by age or end,
Where soul meets soul, as lover and friend.

And there we’d stay—beyond space’s will—
In silent peace, in golden still.
No ticking hours, no fleeting start,
Just the eternal union of soul and heart.
Jimmy silker Aug 8
I implore you to listen to
Tyler Ballgame
He's the essence of McCartney
And a bit o Lennon
And a lot of Orbison
In different songs
At different parts
He's a big man
With a lot o soul
And an even
Bigger heart.
Radio by Tyler Ballgame.
Jimmy silker Aug 8
Digging through my CDs
I keep finding
Two copies of the same album
Then I remember
Ah ****.
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