Graffiti: Wall to Wall Wisdom
Poetry is eternal graffiti written
in the heart of everyone,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Skins Rule, O.K.?
Lunacy drools, O.K.?
Dyslexia lures, K.O.?
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty
Principle Rules perhaps, O.K.?
Absolute Zero Rules, O.K.?
French Fishers Rule, Au Quai?
Moby Dick is not a disease.
You are what you eat.
“I’ve just eaten Einstein”
said the cannibal,
“making me a genius, O.K.?”
Paul Foot, a legend in his own time.
Tony Dawson, OK?
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Tony Dawson has lived in Seville since 1989. He has published in Critical Survey, Shoestring Press, online at London Grip, The Five-Two, The Syndic Literary Journal, Poems for All, Poetry and Covid, Cajun Mutt Press, and Home Planet News. A short story was published in Chiron Review, summer 2021.