[LM_NET] HELP! Sonnet called Graffiti

[Janet Anderson <janetand@GMAIL.COM>]

Hi Everyone!

I'm stumped!  A teacher is looking for information on a Sonnet entitled
"Graffiti".  I've searched google using "" and specific quotes, but have had
no luck.  Perhaps this is one of the few things not on Google yet, but that
someone here may recall the author and book it may have come from.  Thanks
for any help!

*Graffiti*
shake up your colored cans of paint and spray
your poetry so all will stop and stare.
On billboards, walls, and subway cars, convey
your hope through metaphor. Disarm despair
with rich and dripping imagery.  Don't waste
your words on some old tenured academic
revising to his cultivated taste.
Seek out a place where sadness is systemic.
Where literacy is mythical and books
are burnt for heat, and muses haunt the street
as schizophrenic voices, guilty looks
of sympathy are offered in retreat
by those who wash the walls and paint them white,
so hopeful poets have a place to write.

-- 
Janet Anderson
LRC Director
Barrington, IL
janetand@gmail.com

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