KMC Forums - A Poster Postering About Posters

In my life I have used the poster as a form of advertising: 1000s of posters have I put up. So...this posting at this site is about(briefly) putting up posters or, in a phrase, posting about posters.
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WAITING TO GRADUATE

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice...For to miss the joy is to miss all. -Robert Louis Stevenson in Christopher Isherwood: Where Joy Resides, Don Bechardy and James White, eds., Methuen, London, 1989, p.v.

All that energy; it�s been piling up
for one hundred and fifty years.
You�ve got to give it something to do,
some expression, some outlet, channel,
or it will simply burst. How to manage
this energy has been keeping us busy
for a long time: not-too-enthusiastic,
not-too-passive, frenetically passive.

Have you tried letterboxing or postering?
Why I think I must have put up fifty thousand,
put them in, thousands, up-and-down streets
in so many towns I�ve lost count.
I still do it occasionally for nostalgia,
to keep the oils flowing, but I do it like
an old veteran, with a casualness that
has none of the enthusiasm that used
to be in my step. I say, this is for
the energies of youth, this is to give
them something to do in the big cities,
part of the project: 3 hours and 2000
on a hot day on the south side of town;
or postering all the delis
from Smith Street to East Fifty-First.

Look man! I�ve graduated after thirty-three years!
I�m into writing poetry on a hot day,
endless meetings and besides everyone
can�t do everything and I�m doing other things.
I can�t believe it that noone will put up the posters!
Here I am putting up posters and me 51 years old
and getting a little thin, a little too insouciant,
as routine as that fish and chip store;
that sticky-tape still goes down fast:
who wants to hang around a greasy-spoon
when it�s 100 degrees in the shade?
When, oh when will I really graduate?

Ron Price
27 November 1995

embarrasment

Waiting To Graduate