The Otter Queen
Brian BilstonToday’s poem is called ‘I Did Not Tell Death Where I Lived’.
Steven Lawson Photography@brianbilston I'll be chuckling all day after this 😂
@StevenLawsonPhotography Sorry about this one (well, all of them, tbh).
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘
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Jamie@brianbilston Have you noticed how Death always finds a way in, despite locked doors and high security? You know who else can do that?
... and is only supposedly busy on one day of the year? No one has ever seen Death and Santa in the same place at the same time!
Just Sarah@ArborealTechie @brianbilston I always thought of Santa and Satan being one and the same, big and red, same letters in their names... Now there's another contender although maybe a little in the thinner side.
@WanderingWitch @brianbilston He couldn't really carry so much weight with all that activity and squeezing through tight spaces. The suit is just padding for publicity photos and to throw people off the scent! Could be Satan too though. I think that's more of a title than a job. He has minions, so not many hours required surely?
@ArborealTechie @brianbilston Santa has minions too.
@WanderingWitch @brianbilston Perhaps they're the same minions? 🤔
Token Sane Person@tokensane @brianbilston I have read it, but not in well over 20 years. I just read short summary and some bits are familiar. I really must reread it! I can see why you asked but I had totally forgotten the link!
muddle@brianbilston sorry if I've been over-replying to your daily poems but "may the forces of evil get confused on their way to your door"
(including me, if I have)
Ferdi MagellanI love you and all you make me feel.
😁
Skjeggtroll
Loaded Weapon - Wilderness Girls
Mike TorrIT WAS THE SALMON MOUSSE.
Dr. Dr. Bethan Tovey-WalshThe first couplet is pure Emily Dickinson!
@linguacelta @brianbilston And you can sing it to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" too.
Kim Possible 
@brianbilston This is really good. 😃
Clayfoot@brianbilston Now visualizing pizza delivery person as Death in disguise, welcomed inside by the fated. Do they get a last slice before Death takes them?
From Robin with Love@brianbilston This made me bust out a laugh. And again. Thank you!
Leto Atréides 🪱🏜️🌈🦄👓🪶🐜
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️@MedeaVanamonde @brianbilston I dig this style of poetry.
John Poole@brianbilston reminds me of Ogden Nash, (cf. The Pizza)
Lydia Schoch@brianbilston Were you Emily Dickinson in a previous lifetime? https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479
Stanley Nerdlinger II@brianbilston
Beautifully told. It brought a tear to my eye. I hope the pizza was still warm
Beautifully told. It brought a tear to my eye. I hope the pizza was still warm
Jessica O'Hare 🐇Plot Twist: Death delivered the pizza saying "I had to make a stop before here"