How can the bathroom wall be less than art?
Bring your Duchamp pen, and make
the paleness of its tiles a tale
of more beyond what bullies did.
Have you tasted water from the bowl?
Have the hands of others taken liberties?
Have you lent against the wall to cry?
Bring your Duchamp pen and make
the paleness of its tiles your tale.
Expose exploiters, make the bullies pay
and keep them very far from power.
Fountaine by Marcel Duchamp
Today it’s OLN at dVerse and any poem of yours is welcome. Bar open at 3PM EST, and I will be a bit later to the show as we have a concert tonight.
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November 3, 2016
Björn Rudbergs writings 
I liked this one!
Thanks Ted… 🙂
“have you tasted from the bowl?” Given the context…I feel sorry for anyone who has!
If those walls could talk…
Ooh, I know where you got the idea for this. I just read it yesterday. Ciccipie, I think, is her name. Off to read about Duchamp now …
I’m so pleased to see that chess is listed as one of his artistic genres (painting, sculpting, chess, writing), because it absolutely is … an art.
The tales those bathroom walls can share if they can talk ~ Good one Bjorn~
I love this! Enjoy the concert tonight :o)
Only my pets drink from our toilet bowls, & they seem to enjoy it. This piece is out there, brother, but it is a prime example as to the salient truth that poetic inspiration can descend upon us from all quarters.
I liked the idea of using the Duchamp pen and “the paleness of its tiles a tale”.
I see a blending of two prompts…if walls could talk and somewhat of futurism having a call for change, if even through the pen and a toilet bowl. I love this, Bjorn!
The only writing I’ve done on walls was with crayons at a factory. Even that felt wrong somehow – my siblings got into deep trouble for writing on the walls at home! For me that’s like getting a tattoo, not something I can see, so I can’t realte to it very well. An interesting poem nonetheless!
Such a charged poem that we all share in common memory.
Bullying at school and in the workplace – plenty of crying and small torture in toilets. Now, whether that was art, not sure…
Nice work with this.
Well done here
Am guessing it is about the horror of school bullies, but I have to look up duchamp pens now!!
Duchamp was the Dada artist signing the toilet making it art… 🙂
Thanks Bjorn 🙂 see the connection now!
I like the repetition…”Bring your Duchamp pen and make the paleness of its tiles your tale”. Even bathroom walls can be a canvass for expression.
I never hid out in the school toilets because that’s where the bullies lurked, but I have always enjoyed reading the toilet walls in pubs, clubs and railway stations. Some of the most interesting graffiti can be found in historic dungeons!
Bring your Duchamp pen and make
the paleness of its tiles your tale
A pen and toilet bowls can certainly trigger off inspirations for humor. Yes, nothing to do in there but wild imaginations!
Hank
LOL! You haven’t gotten out of the Futurist prompt yet, Bjorn. It’s following you into the toilet. LOL! This was great fun, but has a serious message. Especially for us Yanks today.
Glad you caught that… I had a political innuendo that perhaps was too obscure
Nah…not obscure at all.
Ah, I detect bullying culture, political commentary on current events, and Dadaism all over this! I hope we’re not all about to taste the water in the bowl.
I’m afraid that we all have to take a sip…
I think it could be a lot more than a sip. Gulp. Glug. Dystopia here we come?? Say it ain’t so.
Ah, this is powerful. It’s time to recover the wall from the bullies and to give it a different message.
Washrooms – even the signs on the door give me the willies. Gritty and intense.
One of my few charges in the courts is graffiti, which is considered vandalism. I was sitting in a bathroom at a park sketching on the wall with a black pen. 1 to 5 days in County Jail for that one.
And for Duchamp it was art… but I think he bought the urinal to do it.