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Jan Svoboda Jul 2015
STREET AND A CUTE BODY STANDING BY THE CORNER
LOOKING AROUND
YOU’RE ONLY PASSING BY LETTING IN
THE NICE SIGHT

IF YOU LOVE THIS WORLD
SO SAY IT’S RIGHT
IF YOU LOVE THIS WORLD
SAY THAT’S RIGTH

THEN AT NIGHT ON THE WAY TO BED
YOU GET LOST
YOU ASKED FOR IT YOU BEGGED FOR IT
THERE YOU ARE

NOW THE PEACE IS GONE
AND YOUR BED IS FAR
A BEAST’S LYING ON YOU BOY
ON YOU GIRL

BUT THEN IN THE MORNING GOD HUGS THEE
SO YOU CAN SAIL ON
FOR YOU’RE JUST A MATCH IN THE SEA
THAT BOGS MAKE FLOAT

IF YOU GOT A LIGHT
SO GO AND SHINE
KEEP GLOWING
UNTIL YOU SINK DOWN

IF YOU GOT THE LIGHT
GO AND SHINE
KEEP GLOWING
UNTIL YOU SINK DOWN

I’M DRIFTING WOOD
PIECE OF WOOD
DRIFTING WOOD
I’M A MATCH

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(Malta, 1997)
Jan Svoboda Jul 2015
Hey Benny,
I gotta tell you you're doing extremely well
right man you are on your way
if you keep your eyes wide open
if you keep standing on your feet
if you keep doing all the crazy things
you will be the one of few
who crashed their own fear
aaa you don't believe me buddy
alright now just listen
you can see inside of you, can't you?
you can admit all the ****-ups, can you not?
well man most people usually don't do it and
they don't want to see their problems Ben
they don't want to see inside of themselves
cause they always have something to lose
they are slaves
you know they would lose
something or somebody
oh yes the scared slaves
slaves under control of fear
all terrified of loosing

but Ben you are free
Ben you are no slave
you are no slave
you don't be scared
you are ready for defeats

Evertime you lose
you win anyway Ben

You have certain things you like
and you do them
isn't that right, isn't that right man?
one more thing on my mind now
you'd better not talk to people
the way you talk to yourselves
at least not so often
man they are not worth it
they are scared
and they don't want to show it
no they are scared

but you don't worry
'cause you are the one
who crashed his own fear
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Brno, Czech Republic, 1997
Jan Svoboda Jul 2015
It's another morning full of emptiness
when six is sick and life is nothingness
it's the same as yesterday as the days before
though today I am not alone
she's beautiful young insane
probably a *****
***** on dope
***** on dope
***** on dope
I don't even know her name
and she doesn't believe that my name Jan
we keep asking each other for our names
none of us hears an answer
we keep asking each other for our names
none of us understands
lying on my bed
watching a white ceiling
I think of helping her
I think of healing
she is sitting there
with her legs crossed
the mute child is slightly swaying
looking nowhere
Karla, Světlanka or a black-haired ghost
her door is closed
she needs someone to open it with
I do not know how
who will call the locksmith
who will call the locksmith
when none of can move
I feel like a *******
and she wants to be soothed
two flies are hanging on a curtain
in a blacked out room
I've been watching them for a long time
they are dead or just don't move
they are dead or just don't move
two flies
Written in Brno, Bystrc in February 1997
Jan Svoboda Jun 2015
Wet grass waving
Into the rock
Spring rain beating
The tree leaves
Wind sings about
Flying falcon far away
Above the pit-rock
Tree-like spine fire
Heats the flash
Boiling the rain
Sky roars
Current heals
While falcon flies away
Falcon flies far away
19.6.2009, Praha-Stodůlky ("on the snail rock")
Jan Svoboda Jun 2015
Swallows swallow mosquitoes
With my blood

My shadow lying on the ground
Is taller than me

Tobacco smoke hanging
In the morning air

While four seagulls
Fly against the river flow

My quartz
Is not on me

Super 8 mm Quartz

The fisherman's summer
Should wait

Swallows swallow mosquitoes
With my blood
July, 2009, Spytihněv
Jan Svoboda Jun 2015
Give me just one word
Just one word
Hornet flying round my beer

Give me twilight bird
Twilight bird
Right sounds buzzing in my ear

Give me just one ear
Just one ear
And perhaps I'll learn to speak

Give me just one song
Just one song
I can breathe through in this year

Dizzy head, glassy eye and I
I got nothing else here to despise

And the full moon's answering
2011, Zlín
Jan Svoboda Jun 2015
THOUGHTS ARE SHORT
WORDS ESCAPE LIKE FLIES
OXYGEN IS LOW
FAT’S BURNING FAST
MIND FORGETTING TIME
WHERE AM I?
WHERE AM I?

UNDER WATER
BREATHING OUT
UNDER WATER
WITH THE LIZZARDS
UNDER WATER
CATCHING FLIES
UNDER WATER
SPEECHLESS

THOUGHTS ARE SHORT
WORDS ESCAPE LIKE FLIES
OXYGEN IS LOW
FAT’S BURNING FAST
MIND FORGETTING TIME
WHERE AM I?
WHERE AM I?
May 2009, Praha
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