Graffitti Artist

I blame the graffitti artist

Whose stolen swollen words

Emblazon me with rage

Paper walls torn

Page from page

Limbs discarded

Unwanted bodies

Cluttering the stage

'War made art'

I blame the graffitti artist

For sticking in the boot,

Making the 'literate mute'

For whose red passion tongue is rage

Slashed splashed

Marked on a concrete stage

No finer lines

No asymmetrical

Dialectical

Speaks speech louder

When seen

Across a half abandoned railway bridge

Broken brick and stone

Naming a homeless home

For dereliction vagrant vagabond

'Home sweet home'

The unwished unlonged

Blood letters

Burn on bridges

RAGING OUT THEIR FEARS

To deaf eyes

Blind travellers

Speaking speech

To speech

To the nobody

Unseen

Who hears

Who hears?

PREACH!

Yvette m Smith june 09

poem by Yvette Smith
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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