SIMPLY AN OXYMORON

Graffiti artist, that is. What is art worthy about graffiti?

Give me the wall any day. Any bare wall. What's worse is it's all over the world.

I guess it doesn't take much to buy some spray paint and go to destruct. And if one wants to be a delinquent, then there's the opportunity. Just go slap some paint on a wall.

But, please don't call it art.

In the dictionary, the word graft is listed right after graffiti. Graft as in the abuse of one's position. That's more fitting to me. Yeah, that works: a graft artist. On second thought, it still doesn't fit. Oh, it's a kind of graft all right. It's just that it's still not art. More like scratchings or debasing. Marring. Gomming. Ruining.

If you get the idea that I can't stand graffiti, you're right. The only good graffiti was the old movie, American Graffiti. And they couldn't even make a good sequel.