Love Poem
Beyond watching eyes
With sweet and tender kisses
Our souls reached out to each other
In breathless wonder
And when I awake
From a vast and smiling peace
I found you bathed in morning light
Quietly studying
All the messages on my phone
-Banksy
wont take very long.
Despite what they say graffiti is not the
lowest form of art. Although you might
have to creep about at night and lie to
your mum it's actually one of the more
honest art forms available. There is no
elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best
walls a town has to offer and nobody
is put off by the price of admission
A wall has always been the best
place to publish your work
The people who run our cities don't
understand graffiti because they think
nothing has the right to exist unless it
makes a profit, which makes their
opinion worthless.
They say graffiti frightens people and
is symbolic of the decline in society,
but graffiti is only dangerous in the
mind of three types of people;
politicians, advertising executives,
and graffiti writers.
The people who truly deface our
neighborhoods are the companies
that scrawl giant slogans across
buildings and buses trying to make us
feel inadequate unless we buy their
stuff. They expect to be able to shout
their message in your face from every
available surface but you're never
allowed to answer back. Well, they
started the fight and the wall is the
weapon of choice to hit them back.
Some people become cops because
they want to make the world a better
place. Some people become vandals
because they want to make the world
a better looking place.
- Banksy
