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  Sep 23 Jimmy silker
Nat Lipstadt
perhaps a subject already well covered. but I consult no one else,
who can expertly summon the artificial artifacts, no better yet,
art~iN~facts of prior expert~tease, and speak only and wholly
for myself, blatant, and openly undisguised

it is the spilling, the upward sensory explosive detonating,
in a pressured chest, the eagerness
to race, to complete,
find the next line, to define, to refine to get the balance tween
elegance and simplicity, to have the ******* sensory totality
of completely having spun off a piece of me and let it free float as a balloon, that may fly to China or get stuck on a telephone pole
just beyond my front door
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^ I write this midst the composition of another poem, wherein
unusually I feel the need to pause, collect my thoughts which are bombarding my atoms internal, causing  a new fissionable element,
distinct and unique, my poem…next…
If you have not experienced this,
then why write?

Because you know,
it is inevitable
                                 that it will happen…
Jimmy silker Sep 23
Just been for X rays
I tried to feel the radiation
As it fell on my body
In that three second blast
Or whatever it is
I commanded my cells
To vibrate
Or pulsate
Or whistle
Or whizz
The feeling
Up my brain stem
To see what
Radioactivity gives
In terms of sensation
And impact on your bones
But I just felt nothing
Did it leave me alone?
  Sep 23 Jimmy silker
Nolan Bucsis
I'm still out there,
Dying on that
Lonely cold
Highway.

Everything,
A temporary reprieve
From eatin out the trash can
Chased outta everywhere,
Some kinda mad man
Of God,
Exiled
Into the ditch.

Fear and four hours of
Sleep.

The simple routine
Of walk until you
Can't,
Eat what  you can
On the way to nowhere.

Everyone is an enemy
You just ain't fallen out with
Yet.

But there's time,
Wasting it to get closer
To going to bed,
Just to do it all
Over again.

Everyday collapsing
Into itself.

Freedom I guess they call it,
Broken knees,
Withered back,
And going somewhere that's
Nowhere,
But elsewhere
From here.
Jimmy silker Sep 22
They shrink when
You're not looking
Makes it hard to commentate
You forget which one
Your fathers bet on
In their prime

Once of the earth
Then boulder
Size slowly disapates
Stone
Pebble
Dust
The race is won
Way past your time.
Jimmy silker Sep 22
Mammoth bands from thirty years ago
Sequels
Prequels
And franchise entries
Regurgitation
And reabsorption
Feels like we've
Been doing it
For centuries
Now we have
The creative computer
The magic box
You don't have to
Put much in to it
To get its point across.
Jimmy silker Sep 22
Dice don't really roll
They bounce
Adds to the
Uncertainty

The nature
Of the house advantage
Mixed
With *****
And stupidity.
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