Green Peas at Stake

Graffiti Writers -- For April Poetry month -1

Graffiti Writers

Outside the window, the graffiti slows,
as the train pulls up to the platform.
The loudspeaker grants a parasitic explanation
of in and out destinations, and your work boasts
fattened, multihued letters like fresh croissants
and the crafty hands that baked them.
Such quizzical shifts in our styles...
but still in the same leisurely way, you throw
yours on the streets like discarded postcards;
I write my graffiti inside spiral notebooks with
crazy-legged letters, dressed in suits,
and we both lack that cutting edge voice
of the big man on the mic who sings his
tender words in tough-in-your-face format,
vividly presenting our extinction.