Spell - Patti Smith

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

Holy!

The world is holy!

The soul is holy!

The skin is holy!

The nose is holy!

The tongue and cock and hand

And asshole holy!

Everything is holy!

Everybody’s holy!

Everywhere is holy!

Everyday is in eternity!

Everyman’s an angel!

The bum’s as holy as the seraphim!

The madman is holy as you my soul are holy!

The typewriter is holy

The poem is holy

The voice is holy

The hearers are holy

The ecstasy is holy!

Holy Peter holy Allen

Holy Solomon holy Lucien

Holy Kerouac holy Huncke

Holy Burroughs holy Cassady

Holy the unknown buggered

And suffering beggars

Holy the hideous human angels!

Holy my mother in the insane asylum!

Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas!

Holy the groaning saxophone!

Holy the bop apocalypse!

Holy the jazzbands marijuana

Hipsters peace & junk & drums!

Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements!

Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions!

Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!

Holy the lone juggernaut!

Holy the vast lamb of the middle class!

Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion

Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!

Holy New York Holy San Francisco

Holy Peoria & Seattle

Holy Paris Holy Tangiers

Holy Moscow Holy Istanbul!

Holy time in eternity

Holy eternity in time

Holy the clocks in space

Holy the fourth dimension

Holy the fifth International

Holy the Angel in Moloch!

Holy the sea holy the desert

Holy the railroad holy the locomotive

Holy the visions holy the hallucinations

Holy the miracles holy the eyeball

Holy the abyss!

Holy forgiveness!

mercy!

charity!

faith!

Holy!

Ours!

bodies!

suffering!

magnanimity!

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent

Kindness of the soul!