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John Soltys

IS

this spell is not a begging bowl or shopping cart of dreams
this is just an IS list, nothing’s what it seems

Give me  lungs of the wind and the breath of the dying
Give me  blood of the torrent and the viens of the Oak
Give me five stupid question without realy trying
Give me  gifts of compassion and fire for smoke
 
I’ll give the breath from these lungs that are dying
And  give you  the blood that clogs as I choke
I’ll give you five answers of what keeps me crying
I’ll give you forgiveness and fire for smoke
 
Give me  crimes of the sinned and the heads of the lying
Give me  sparks of indifference and grist for the mill
Give me shades of conviction and  a vision of trying
Give me gifts of rememberance and  fire for smoke
 
I’ll give the breath from these lungs that are dying
And  give you  the blood that clogs as I choke
I’ll give you five answers of what keeps me crying
I’ll give you forgiveness and fire for smoke
 
Give me forms of resistance and some figures for frying
Give me meadows of substances this isn’t a joke
Give me books of redemption and no more of your crying
Give me gifts of conviction and fire for smoke
 
I’ll give the breath from these lungs that are dying
And  give you  the blood that clogs as I choke
I’ll give you five answers of what keeps me crying
I’ll give you forgiveness and fire for smoke

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Norman’s Skin

“I met a man called Norman Manly, who’d spent 38 years of his life installing, repairing and cleaning church organs. He’d have continued in this way had it not been for the rather stran...
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GOD IS

God is everywhere God is in the meadows full of flow… God is the child locked in a cupbo… God is with the dolphins in the se… God is at the heart of all atrocit…
Manifesto

Heal us earthly mother so we may do your work Banish our addictions, the ones that make us shirk. Show us overstanding
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BLOOMSDAY

At ringend on june sixteenth ninet… Molly opens her door and Literate Leopold plonks his k…
Celebrities by the pool

A bomb at a Manchester pop concer… dominates the news for a fortnight world leaders express their revuls… celebrities organise a show of sol… Leaning on my gate
STRONG LEGS

Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas,… poets with sturdy legs to walk the… way down yonder at the bottom of P… Pacing the street to put the beat… poets who bled ink
Time goes on forever

She walked down the street carrying her misgivings in a croch… in silk culottes she strode with the determination of the delu… her heels tapping out morse messag…
I MET A MAN........

I met a man who could recite all t… of the “Romance of the Rose” but… I met a man who could recite PI to one thousand decimal points but could not find a rhyme
Summer Solstice

around midnight pools ancients sta… past the flickering fleeting present peering incredulously into their future
Invisible Friend

I am story teller I will tell you things that are ultimately true I will tell you things that will bring you to tears
SISTERS IN SHAME

Her timing was her function.... S… flowing ever.....onwards ...upward… late at night... soul sister... ra… that binds you ...and blinds you..… on the conveyor belt... chastity b…
Here I sit on top of my years

Here I sit on top of my years Lookin’ down on the street Dreams queue bumper to bumper Hipsters pound the pavement With purpose in their stride
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An eight year old boy scrambles over the rubble of his neighbourho… where once he played streetball with his missing schoolmates. With Ibex like agility he leaps,
Ambrose of Greek Street

He lived too many floors from street level for his advanced years but Ambrose grew up in a time when one did not complain over loudly in case one’s right to complain be taken away. The ...
Oven Trips...

While I struggled to understand how I could possibly be flying, I lost the ability to fly. Just before I came crashing to earth I resigned myself that this was it....i was going to die....



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