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PS: Your Poem a Week w/ Philippe Shils

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

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17. Empty Town Ship

2/27/2020

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17. Empty Town Ship
A.
My kids went around a corner and were gone. Only a city was in the field. Buildings and tents. I didn’t ask the one man that came out looking curious about the names I called. My terrified children had heard me yell. I had to walk somewhere to make a report and by then it would be too late. The police would scoff. There was a man in a mask at a bus stop because of snow.
I awoke
afraid to
open doors.
B.
Every day for years this neighbor took
pictures of kids getting on their bus. He said he’d give them the photos when they were old so they could remember. The members of his church thought it was so lovely. I went to his house selling charity candy and he said: we all end up where we are meant to be. I said: are you saying people in hell don’t know they’re there? He said: there’s no telling.
His walls were
empty
and very clean.
#weeklypoemandpic

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16. Going solo

2/21/2020

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16. Going solo

When I sat next to the rock star at the restaurant
or just above behind and to his left I listened but didn’t
intrude. He was with his wife or his sister and some
other friends or helpers. When he was leaving and
as I was ordering dessert he said my name in the
way that people who don’t know me think it’s
pronounced. I complimented his shoes and asked
what I’d won. He said: nothing just saying hello. His
song As the Light Is was in everyone’s heads.
People think it’s religious but it isn’t at least not to
me.

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15.

2/14/2020

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15.

Hikers

A forest of siddarthas
and the trees they're
wrappped around.

Wander the woods
and catch a glimpse
of the gardeners.

There's no need
to be the best
boat in the water:
you just need to float.

I've never hiked.
Well once as a college
traveller. A buddy and
I trailed along behind
goats. We whistled and
stole their bells. We

worried about the
shepherdess but she
never appeared.

My son said
'We'll win the rain'
Who wins the rain?

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14.

2/8/2020

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14.

MVA

I crashed with a familiar
sound. Your first accident
I was asked? It must not have
been because it wasn't
a surprise. I leapt
out of the car before
it was hit. The acuity
of the stoplight’s grimy
backing was its own prediction.
I said to Felix later
that someone had tried
to kill me but had failed.
I'd met a meteor.
Earlier there had
been an eclipse.
I stopped on a corner
and admired its silent
machinery. Next to
me were two men.
One of them noticed
that we were standing
in a line and breathing
together. We got
bored by the moon
and drove for our collisions.
#weeklypoemandpic

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    PS: Your Poem a Week w/

    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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