The tight link between art, or poetry, and shit is well established. It's a sort of badge of quality.
"Being a graffiti writer is about taking the chances and shit, taking the risks, taking like all the arguments from the police, from your own mom, you know from your friends and shit. You know, you've got to take all that bullshit ''aahh, you're vandalizing all those trains''. (...) How can you call people that hang out windows and watch trains writers, man? You've gotta write, you've gotta do the action, you've gotta go out there and wreck up, you've gotta go out and paint and be called an outlaw at the same time."
- Lee Quinones in Charlie Ahearn's 'Wild Style' www.shift.jp.org about BO130 & MICROBO, graffiti writers in Milan.
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