I've just read that construction workers in Melbourne have inadvertently destroyed three stencils by the British street artist Banksy.


Writing on the wall

I didn't mean to do it;
I thought it was chewing gum
Clinging to the wall,
Now you tell me it's white Blutack
Bearing the thumbprint of a world
Famous installation artist and guru
Whose name is Aran Anon.
Tell you what, guv', I'll just put
The gum, sorry, installation
Back where I got it from,
Look there's even a sticky patch
To guide me, easy peasy, yeah?
What do you mean, I can't do that?
I know I'm not the artist and that
It wouldn't be his thumbprint
On the returned gum, sorry, installation
But who would know, who would care?
One thumbprint is much like another
To the naked eye, at least.
But Aran Anon would know, you say,
And he would feel outraged, you say,
At the thought of his gum, sorry, installation
Being touched, nay, vandalised by a mere
Workman such as little old me.
OK for the sake of the dignity of the artist,
Not to mention the possibility of lawsuits,
I'll refrain from putting the thing back
Without first contacting the artist or his
Agent or his gallery or his PR company.
I promise; now where did I put the darn thing?
Wait, don't move! What's that white goo oozing
From underneath your right shoe?



Poetry by Christopher Fernie The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2016-07-11 at 11:03

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Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
There is a hint of sarcasm in this. I didn't know about this, but I am not really into street art. Groucho said "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know"
2016-07-17


Kathy Lockhart
Chris, how clever you are and such a Brit!! I love it all. You stay on top of all the news and write such amusing, stylistic poetry about these current events and I'll soak it up here in the USA! That's the plan, man. :D Kathy
2016-07-11


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
finger imprints on a shard of a broken varce
craited 10,000 years ago
maybe - made by Aran Anos ancestral past?


Ken
2016-07-11



Also I love how the piece is conversational and almost like a story you'd tell at the bar. Kudos for that. To make poetry sound like common speech and still poetic is something that masters have strived for yet few have achieved. double kudos.
2016-07-11



Hahaha I found this hilarious. Pretension is an artists worst enemy but so few know and fewer care.
2016-07-11