Short Spray Can Poems

huge uninviting
near fence post low to ground —
maddening hornets
            drive by shooting of spray can
            the window of victim’s steamed

12/16/2018...

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that drawing of a flower
on what was plain concrete
is someone wishing there was life
underneath their feet

and that spray-can painting
of the sunrise on the bridge
is someone's dream they could escape
from the somber life they live...

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I read the best poetry 
I ever read
Transfixed to a wall
In spray can form
Reckless abandoned vandal graffiti 
Is so meaty 
It defies art
And expression 
Yet will never be mentioned 
In any page's or history book's 
But if word's could quill 
I have found what fills
A tortured life
It is the scar's that bare
The price of paint
A wall adorned 
Thought bare...

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(4-9 beat)
The painter said?
I need rollers and work pants I pled
Paint brushes too
Get my brushes now I say to you
Floor sheet I need
Cover the floor do not use speed
Ladder I plead
Spray can the wall done .Time to drink mead
Solvent,I use
Can't clean brushes without it don't lose
Last coat of paint
You definately get no complaint
Hang plants for sure
Free windows to sunlight I implore
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Some poetic thoughts bubble
to the top of your deep waters.

There they congregate, bobbing up and down
forming slicks, oily smears that linger
only to accuse you later when you return to them.

There is a detergent for cleaning them up
it comes in a small spray can
labeled 'revise, edit, or delete.'

Fore heaven's sake
don't let them burst and spill
over the pristine innocence of a page.

Many whopping environmental disasters
begin with a wee smudge....

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