Open Script

Loose script

Bubble letters

Spinning words

across concrete,

under bridges—

splashed in your face
Politics  in bold fluorescent 

Free wheeling language

out of a spray can

thrown in gaudy colors

in your face, outside boxes 

pushing boundaries

not hemmed in by frames

or clean walls in galleries

saying aloud words heard 

in subways, street corners,

poetry slams—words

formed within sounds

and rhymes and impolite

digressions, honed in internal

dialogues, response to the spin

of newspapers, talking heads—

Tags of artists in fat lines

on dilapidated buildings

worn out places

and walls and alleys 

set aside for graffiti—

Don’t mistake urban wall murals

with graffiti