"I was about to say a couple of years ago, but then I realized I'd actually been writing for a long time. I always called myself a writer. It was just that it was..."
I've learned a lot about this kind of writing in the last few years. I have many examples in my own basement. The other day I was taken to see the writing below, in an alley, in a city where tagging is a serious activity that involves turf, art, and politics. The artist showed it to me bashfully. "It's not very good. I'm working on it."
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| Tag by an anonymous artist |
Is this writing? I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt--except on my furniture.
You're it.
ReplyDeleteI have been working as a social worker for pregnant and parenting girls in the foster system for many years now.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of this new venture, I used to take the Broadway local subway from Manhattan into the Bronx and checked out the the views where the subway would emerge from underground.
I remember when I was first struck by the idea that my "girls" used to use their pregnancy and upcoming motherhood as a way to scream, "I AM!" and wondered if graffiti fulfilled the same screaming needs of their respctive baby's sperm donor...Sorry, I am loathe to call them fathers until they, well, father.
Anyway, is it writing, or is it a way to be acknowledged..Je ne croissant.