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Graffiti

The joy of experience is the challenge of expression.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in University of Detroit lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.


 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Flower people live in pots.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in University of Detroit lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Love is a symbiotic union.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in University of Detroit lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Graffiti!

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

God is alive and well in Piaza San Marco.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Watch out--Big Brother is watching you!

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Help stamp out graffiti.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

The South Vietnamese army isn't.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Abolish Nationalism.
-- Committee for the return of tribalism

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Love is a long and slender thing.

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti--Participatory

1) I don't give a piss.
2) No, stupid, you take it.
3) Wrong again, you don't take it--you eject it.
4) You're all eclectic--It's a "whiz."

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti--Participatory

1) Dum Dum,
Why did you sit in this stall when some of the best participatory reading in America is in the next one to the North?

2) The movie was much better!

 

Submitter comment:

Collected in U of D lavatory.


 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

There is a rock in the public park near our house that has painted on it "Kilroy was here." After the WW II hero.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; park

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.

Here I sit broken hearted
'Cause I tried to shit and only farted.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; collector's home

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Black! White! Oriental!
The water splashes over
All their asses the same.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; collector's home

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Happiness is a moist vagina

Submitter comment:

On wall on Plum St.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; PLUM ST ; wall

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

He who writes on shit house walls
Rolls his shit in little balls.

He who reads these words of wit
Eats those little balls of shit.

 

Submitter comment:

On john wall.


 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: john wall

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Here I sit broken-hearted, I came to shit, but only farted.

 

Submitter comment:

I have seen in many washrooms this piece scratched on the wall of the toilet stall or on the back of the stall door.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; washroom wall

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Here I sit in stinking vapor,
Some damn fool stole the paper.


 

Submitter comment:

The informant remembered this from a washroom he once visited.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; washroom

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Leonard Bernstein plays by color.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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