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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

"F**k the...": Profane BART Graffiti Keeps Everyone Guessing

Posted By on Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:30 PM

It's always a kick when life imitates art, and the Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub appears to have found just such an instance. 

Here, at last, we have a transit vandal re-enacting the juvenile behavior described within Simon and Garfunkel's classic "A Poem on the Subway Wall": 

Now from his pocket quick he flashes; 
The crayon on the wall he slashes; 
Deep upon the advertising;
A single worded poem comprised; 
Of four letters.

But Hartlaub, bless him, has discovered much more here on the stairway descending to the Powell Street station. 

In short, he's captured a conundrum on the wall. Was the miscreant chased away before getting to the heart of his message? Or is this the message? 

Rarely can so much thought be provoked by vulgar scrawlings on BART's Braille walls. What was this person thinking? And, to each individual who passes it, what would we wish him or her to be thinking? 

In other words: What should get fucked today? 


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Joe Eskenazi

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Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. "Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.

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