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PS: Your Poem a Week w/ Philippe Shils

​A poem and a picture weekly for a year.  #weeklypoemandpic

PS: SOCIAL MEDIA/BOOKS/BAND

7.

12/21/2019

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Picture
7.

This is
not a prelude.
This is
not
an introduction.
This is the
way things are.

A. possum

the morning's
sweet little birds
are killing me.
peck.
peck peck.

B. elemental

wood is my
favorite element.

paper is mine.

it’s not an element.
it comes from wood.

C. what to wear?

another bad dream
(gaping maws
yellow gears)

and he awoke
determined
not to have
another.

his head: cold.

remembering
all his hats:

my hats!
where
are all
my fucking
hats?

D. we used to talk

this place is the
opposite of that.
it's where they
clone insects

E. sniper

long
long
arms.
he was never
dismembered
in a former
life.

someone held
a gun out
in the dining room--
a big pistol--
and the
gangly man
sprang out
from within
the china cabinet
hands up
and pleading:

it's not true
that I
could be
anywhere.
I have to
be here!

F. the end

this is
not
a road.

this
is not
a tree.

this is
not
milk.

this is
not
a shoe
a dog or
a stump.

this isn’t
a game.
tell me

what you
see.

#weeklypoemandpic
Art courtesy of F. Shils.
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    Philippe Shils - he lives in central Illinois. He has chapbooks available from Underground Books, Right Hand Pointing Press, and a collaborative one with his band The Red Wheelbarrows available at gigs and on Facebook by request. He plays old time banjo and has two kids who are patient with their father.
    Check out his New Band, Books and Social Media!! 

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