[Newspoetry] Slogans That Haven't Lost Their Edge

[Mike Lehman]

RECOVERED HISTORY
May 1968 Paris graffiti

- Alcohol kills. Take LSD. 
- Unbutton your mind as often as your fly. 
- Drive the cop out of your head. 
- Commute, work, commute, sleep . . . 
- Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can and many say,
"We will breathe later." And most of them don't die because they are
already dead. 
- Boredom is counterrevolutionary. 
- No replastering, the structure is rotten. 
- Masochism today takes the form of reformism. 
- Reform my ass. 
- Already ten days of happiness. 
- Don't liberate me - I'll take care of that. 
- Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as "progressives."
- We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried,
registered,
indoctrinated, suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated,
gassed, booked. 
- The forest precedes man, the desert follows him. 
- Concrete breeds apathy. 
- Coming soon to this location: charming ruins. 
- Live without dead time. 
- Down with the abstract, long live the ephemeral. 
- Practice wishful thinking. 
- Be realistic, demand the impossible. 
- Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking. 
- Exaggeration is the beginning of invention. 
- Forget everything you've been taught. Start by dreaming. 
- Form dream committees. 
- Arise, ye wretched of the university. 
- Professors, you make us grow old. 
- If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him. 
- I suspect God of being a leftist intellectual. 
- Going through the motions kills the emotions. 
- Commodities are the opium of the people. 
- Are you a consumer or a participant? 
- I participate. You participate. He participates. We participate. They
profit. - Abolish alienation. 
- I have something to say but I don't know what. 
- Comrades, stop applauding, the spectacle is everywhere. 

From: <http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/graffiti.htm>