Rome Journal

Andrew moves to Italy. Hilarity ensues.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

graffiti pazzi

I'm really taken by the quantity and variety of Italian graffiti. You'd have to look pretty hard, I think, to find a city in the US that has just so much, covering every square inch of some blocks (in most places, only up to about shoulder height, though: it is foretold that some day a graffitist will come along who knows how to use a stepladder. He will be the Chosen One, and he will OWN the CITY). Also, a lot of it's political. Incoherent politics, maybe, but political nonetheless; something you'd never see in the US.

With that as a preamble, here's the graffito of the day, written in pen on the back of a seat on the number 75 bus:

[swastika] WHITE POWO!

Which I like to think was written by a Nazi with a really bad lisp.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just wanted to share my all-time favorite Italian graffito with you. From the wall of a lonely train station somewhere between Florence and Vicchio: "Yenkee go home!" Succinct, heartfelt, passionate, all despite the misspelling. It was there for at least five years, and probably still is today.

BTW, my g-mail address, which I have to get in the habit of checking: sjs1975@gmail.com

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