INTRO

Rags to empty floating Tesco bags

with a vernissage for hobos at large

    in this modern gallery

by Balkan Banksy. 

 

  Slovakia to SoHo

      criminal with a canister

the cloaked van Gogh

    Picasso-meets-gangster. 

 

1st SCENE

under-bridge walls covered in paintings

stenciled & sprayed

turning the homeless pass into paradise lost.

 

fine art pierces the dartboard

on skateboards with street talk   

lasers and lenses point the way     

          and beauty is in the bullseye

of the paintbrush holder. 

 

blue collar tongues roll out of their homes

jumping onto pages

  everyday phrases

order of the day.

 

the frame spills

extending beyond paint

and lines of color-by-number

  growing legs

    striding elegant

        vicious

determined

      filling the streets

with signatures and messages

from the belly of the beast.

 

born in a rotting squat

where cigarette hole'd furniture creaks

      and cold-water pipes shriek

disdain is stirred

and disgust erupts.

 

spreading from highway

to underpass

holding a torch to the grey

smeared across the chain city of death.

 

blinkers blind the walking-stick army

sleepwalking backwards

in a moonwalk to cucumber sarmies.

 

2nd SCENE

!! a salon patron complains

the walls looks filthy

& strange.

 

!!! maccy d's three times a day

the rooster crows 

'time for change'

 

leaping from springboard to canvas

or concrete sidewalk

  listen with your eyes to the vandalism

sprayed with realism   

    for the pretty pictures talk.

 

ta-da