While on my bike, I ride past a tagged-up sign. In the foreground is the latest freshest graffiti, supplanting the corporate letters advertising for an incumbent politician. (I can't think of the last time we had an election)
It seems a poignant message for the disconnect and impotency of the political system. True, it is an act of vandalism, but it is no worse than the vandalism of the original sign, offering empty promises and lies from a politician who was always too busy for an interview with a few local seventh graders, who exploits xenophobia in the name of "stopping illegals" and who wants to cut funding to education.
Monday, March 17, 2008
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I had a friend who used to yell at me when I spat my gum out of the car window. "Don't litter!" he said.
My response was some smart-alec refrain about concrete and suburbia being the real litter. Thanks for the flash back! :)
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