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“My wife sleep with you/Try & let me know”
Several questions come to mind upon reading the above poem found taped to the window of an east-end home. First, what happened between the author and his wife to solicit this rage-filled verse? Second, are “water skin” and “green head” meant to be insults? And lastly, what do donuts and a family of pigeons have to do with anything?
Unfortunately, other signs apparently penned by the same hand do not provide much clarity: one invites readers to “Blow up this house,” while another labels the domicile as the “First black house on Pape,” an item of local history the accuracy of which is dubious at best.
Regardless, a second cardboard-mounted poem spotted on the same house last week, entitled “Easy Woo,” proves that this local wordsmith is no one-hit wonder:
You boil shit
I am happy
You carry wok
I am relief
(2 kinds of Woo hi & lo)
(2 [is congruent to] history [is congruent to] his tory [is not equal to] story)
Air milage of Canada
Griffin Prize, here we come!
Photos by Squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.