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young buck, half buck, maybe two buck duo maybe troubled like infamous Dutch painter maybe a whole gang'a bucks that you know shakin' cans for markin' their container a mark of art - some meaty graffiti you see it's in the eye of the beholder some show as crass trash junkin' thinkin' some show as true talent a bit bolder tag lines, Graffito, in muraled center-city socio-arterial politico feigned angry, witty truth's not pristine, it's dirty and gritty walled-up feelings sprayed out upon the city been runnin' the rails since the rails converged been runnin' in streets since ancient antiquity been runnin' since peoples opinions diverged been runnin' thoughout civilization's calligraphy there's been ugly crap - there's been beauty there's been lies lined up on concrete walls there's been tags behind corner cops on duty there's graffiti hanging in the MoMA art halls ever'body's got som'thin' they wanna say ever'body wants their ideas to have weight ever'body really wants to have their own way ever'body's clean-slatein' with urge to create Bomb the wall with eight cans o' Rustoleum like Jef Aérosol, Avoid pi, and Cha in Barcelona Bomb it good t' let 'em know where you're from picture your mind floatin' with that aérosol aroma so, is it some peoples art of expression or is it an eyesore with no merit to us that conversation is a never-ending question really depends on tags you put on it, I guess © Dave Lego 2013-01-14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoMA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_A%C3%A9rosol http://www.adamvoid.com/index.php?/archive/archive/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha_(artist) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/aerosol-200802.html

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