Graffiti is not sanctified Mam

Christopher Ellis
Graffiti is not sanctified Mam
                     "This is pathetic"
                           coming from carriage
                           mom,
                           litter
                           discarded serta cardboard
                                 beautyrest
 

                    Implementations decorate 
                           the arrival and 
                                 visitations.
 

                    Bland pomp middleclass 
                           tidyness as 
                           laundry static sheet 
                                  personified.
 

                     Art is pathos 
                           a beer can beside a 
                           concrete wall left behind
                           a picasso teeterer 
                                  alley inside gallery
 

                      sleeping bag unmade at the corners
                           or on avenue state, or as 
                           green starred lady, on
 

                       Stained coffee cup, or 
                           plastic cup 
                           concoctions 
                           spilling over 
                                  aviance
 


                                  garbage can. 

This original site-specific piece was first published by Groundcover News.