Ray Craig


20 Minutes with John Solt

I’m going to fray and splatter as opposed to usual visuals for 20 minutes

I’m going to Sinatra hat for 20 minutes

I’m going to blind below the waist for 20 minutes

I’m going to wonder why she didn’t reply to him for 20 minutes

I’m going to stay in the maid's room for 20 minutes

I’m going to listen to the moaning tape again for 20 minutes

I’m going to without a permit for 20 minutes

I’m going to mention it to everyone I know for 20 minutes

I’m going to pour water on your head for 20 minutes

I’m going to stop by the thought police for 20 minutes

I’m going to learn in 1936 for 20 minutes

I’m going to gampishi for 20 minutes

I’m going to one story in a rice for 20 minutes

I’m going to buy dental paste for 20 minutes

I’m going to escape eleven times for 20 minutes

I’m going to fart pink for 20 minutes

I’m going to dance with an old blind princess for 20 minutes

I’m going to think about “emptiness” for 20 minutes

I’m going to bow to your bones for 20 minutes

I’m going to erase the stone for 20 minutes

I’m going to ever so slowly for 20 minutes

I’m going to splint into angles for 20 minutes

I’m going to meet you everywhere for 20 minutes

I’m going to in all directions for 20 minutes

I’m going to read poetry for 20 minutes

I’m going to avoid summer for ten years for 20 minutes

I’m going to cunt in katakana for 20 minutes

I’m going to twilight laundering for 20 minutes

I’m going to Grappelli, Louise was the cut for 20 minutes

I’m going to Roppongi kosaten for 20 minutes

I’m going to another restaurant's menu for 20 minutes

I’m going to hole with urgency for 20 minutes

I’m going to that day in March for 20 minutes

I’m going to belly fiber talk for 20 minutes

I’m going to fuck your dead nun friend for 20 minutes

I’m going to smell cleaner for 20 minutes

I’m going to deliver chicken for 20 minutes

I’m going to trust the audience, even though they aren't there for 20 minutes

Ray Craig notes: The source for Found Poem — Compositions of Major and Minor Minerals in Five Apollo 12 Crystalline Rocks (NASA 1972). The source for 20 minutes — emails, letters, postcards, poems from John Solt and notes scrawled in various notebooks from conversations and friendship over the years.

translations —
gampishi — “wild goose skin paper”
katakana — a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for foreign names, place names and words of foreign origin.

 
 
 
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