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And?
Richard Purnell
Banksy came
wielding his stencils
and his righteousness
with his subtle
as a rhinoceros
irony, telling a tale
of pigeons
and tropical birds
expecting the sunrise
would bring adulation and
four hundred grand.
Well, the pigeons acted
with their usual efficiency:
a phone call, a complaint
a council functionary
hosing down, with casual
indifference, the Bristolian
message, and responding
with their own brand
of rudimentary politics:
"Do one. Yes, you son.
Get the fuck out of Essex."
Richard Purnell is a writer and performer, raised in Essex, now living in suburban south London. His poetry has been published in the Herald, Londonist.com and South Bank Poetry, and heard on BBC London. He hosts The Bus Driver's Prayer, an offbeat night of miscellaneous wordsmithery at Kahaila Cafe, Brick Lane. He can be found at richardpurnell.wordpress.com and @richardpurnell
Banksy anti-immigration birds mural in Clacton-on-Sea destroyed
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