Faith Cheltenham microsite edition

An open book built from the manuscript itself

Leaps of Faith

A digital poetry object that reads like a spread on the table, while lines from the collection drift across the page and screen like thought still in motion.

First lines on the table

I can lie like the CIA

pull the covers over your head,

so sweet, so tight,

Out goes the light

Book order preserved

Every section is laid out like a stack of turned pages.

Start from page one

Section 01

Opening

1 poems

I can lie like the CIA pull the covers over your head,

Section 02

2024-2025

19 poems

(Listening to Heat Above, Greta Van Fleet) Do both, same time

Leaf 025 min listen

I’m not a Democrat, Nor a Republican

(Listening to Heat Above, Greta Van Fleet) Do both, same time

Leaf 034 min listen

Tits Out, Azz Up, Tea’s Done

I’d stay in jacket Long as I could

Leaf 041 min listen

Notting Hill, notes from the ghost files 👻

Remember that Notting Hill She bravely says

Leaf 052 min listen

Wedding Guy, Notes From The Ghost Files👻

This is so good, I mean gosh dang

Leaf 0610 min listen

#LIVESMATTER

Harris, Trump, even a Kennedy, and that’s what they talking

Leaf 0726 min listen

Bisexually Famous, Technically Speaking

Always said men were trash But damn if some of these fuckers

Leaf 081 min listen

Pick me talk sex

I’m the best of both worlds

Leaf 094 min listen

United we stand, Faith Cheltenham

Did you know me? No, you knew me.

Leaf 1011 min listen

End periods, all women orgasm always. (That’s it, that’s the vision)

Girls, women and all who bleed There is something the docs

Leaf 1110 min listen

Brat packs (notes from the ghost files 👻)

I ain’t phucked a hottie Yes, to a twink or two

Leaf 1217 min listen

#SPEAK4THEJEWS

I’m Faith Cheltenham,the Black Bisexual Libertarianwho kicks it with radicals, Nativesleft and right wings, and all y’allwith abandon and with glee.Ain’t that true, Ryan Murphy? (Eye roll bb) I do what needs doing,someone must now.We all could and should:speak for the Jewssing with them, rap it

Leaf 1320 min listen

The Story of Faith Cheltenham

As a child, I killed my abuser in my head over and over. Sometimes I drained him,

Leaf 148 min listen

Bringing Me Back

(For Cole) He was the first white man

Leaf 158 min listen

#VaginaAppDelivery (curses from dating apps)

(Hold on, Let me spit on it

Leaf 162 min listen

Dead Weight

By Faith Cheltenham You are who you

Leaf 1717 min listen

BlackPlaced, A BlaQue Story

So you work 20+ years Black and lifting

Leaf 187 min listen

Baby I’m Black Like Me

Baby I’m Black Like When Suge Knight See Me

Leaf 192 min listen

Blocked

Miss me at Christmas Good, that’s another holiday

Leaf 204 min listen

#ComeTogetherAmerica

I like them red and I like 'em blue I like the taste of any gender on my tongue

Section 03

2022-2023

23 poems

Can’t take another “Lemme amplify your voice”

Leaf 214 min listen

The New Klan

Can’t take another “Lemme amplify your voice”

Leaf 223 min listen

Please take your meds

Please take your meds I re-learned piano just

Leaf 2310 min listen

ID DO IT AGAIN (PRIDE FLAG)

I want to be clear I am still 100% pissed But do let me try and explain

Leaf 248 min listen

JOSS WHEDON

Joss, in 5 acts Whedon didn’t do it, he says

Leaf 2510 min listen

WALKAWAY (JOIN ME)

Walkaway walkway: Why? Sometimes I cannot tell them much

Leaf 265 min listen

Call me Ms hermaphrodite or Mr

Call me Ms hermaphrodite or Mr I don’t care: I have any gender I want

Leaf 272 min listen

MY FOREVER FRIEND

If you get a chance, please send my love All my love, to the one you think of as mum

Leaf 284 min listen

WOMAN AND MAN GOD MADE US (I AM THE AND)

You need me To spell it out W-o-m-a-n-a-n-d-m-a-n

Leaf 292 min listen

YOUR ABSENCE IS A PRESENT

(A CHRISTMAS SONG)

Merry Christmas Happy holiday But don't send me any gifts

Leaf 305 min listen

CHRIS NOTH

They wanna say all the men Who like ladies n love ‘em

Leaf 316 min listen

THE JEREMYS

Because Jeremy did A bunch of us kids didn't die Now 30 odd years ago

Leaf 322 min listen

Give me gender or give me death

Don’t be so scared, I tell myself What lies beneath is only

Leaf 334 min listen

REFUND THE POLICE

If you look at the video Like I have You’ll see them all lined up Right in front

Leaf 342 min listen

KEEP GOING, DONT STOP (SLO THEME SONG)

What happened to us I've never Written about not even once

Leaf 353 min listen

GOD MADE

Yes, God made Woman and man

Leaf 363 min listen

CELEBRITY MANAGER

She said doesn't Sound like you Have many real friends

Leaf 378 min listen

WHITE TRANS

White trans will use you for your Money and your connections

Leaf 385 min listen

GRANDMA IM TRANS

Grandma I’m trans Well what does

Leaf 391 min listen

LET EM LIVE

Some folks roll on their own Some folks rock alone

Leaf 403 min listen

GET ON WITH IT

So you been cancelled

Leaf 411 min listen

SHOW OFF

Growing up Rules was simple

Leaf 422 min listen

better man for her (than you)

I couldn’t be the woman for your wife That just not me

Leaf 434 min listen

TO THE NEURO RESEARCHERS AT UCI (2019)

I always appreciate An opportunity to