Bruce Andrews is a New York City-based (since 1975) Poet, literary theorist & retired Political Science professor (tilted to the Left — for 5 minutes of entertainment, google his stand-off with Bill O’Reilly as ‘Outrage of the Week’). Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs & live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances. For a Symposium on his poetry (several dozen books & chapbooks worth) & web archive (interviews, performance texts, poetry, collaborations, & critical essays), check out: http://www.fordhamenglish.com/bruce-andrews. 3 books from U NewMexico Press are just out: a reprint of the full run of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, a collection of Letters related to it & to so-called Language Poetry, & the five-way collaboration, Legend.
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A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
Bruce Andrews
[#SIGNAGEs of the day, New York City, 2020 — April May June]
“SORRY, WE’RE DEAD” — [on the door of a Costume apparel store]
“TITLE OF WORK”
“Employees Must Carve SLAYER Into Forearm Before Returning to Work”
“Why Are You Still Holding On?”
“IMBLEACH HIM”
“Make the POTUS Great Again”
“You’re a mess”
“We Are Not Convinced”
“Pretend you like it”
“You Bet Your Ass”
“Can You Imagine”
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake”
“Post No Hate” — (wall outside Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983-88 residence)
“WISH YOU WERE . . . CLOSER”
“Hello My Name Is”
“If looks could kill, I’d be dead”
“There Is No Start Date To Activism”
“The form is very good here”
“Warning / Fascism”
“INDOORSMEN”
“Kill for Peace”
“If what is everyday?”
“Find the Perfect Roommate”
“If you can read this, thank a teacher”
“DETENTION”
“Public Meeting Notice for Liquor License Application” — [@ McNally Jackson
Books, South Street Seaport!]
“HAPPY WARRIOR PLAYGROUND CLOSED”
“DAZES BORED”
“Enjoy Your Forgiveness”
“It’s Okay To Look”
“Nothing can harm you within one metre of this poster”
“THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY”
“Realistic Goal Setting”
“WE CAN’T BREATHE”
“I’m Not Sure how well I even know you”
“CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED /
CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED /
CHERRY BOMBED / CHERRY BOMBED”
“Take A Knee”
“Where Is My Safe Place ?”
“COMMUNITY NOT COPS”
“THIS WAS YOUR LIFE”
“FUKC YOUR CURFEW”
“WHITE SILENCE = DEATH”
“KONVICT KILLER KOPS”
“We’re Not Free Until Everybody’s Free”
“MAKE RACISTS AFRAID AGAIN”
“PROTEST SOUNDS”
“SAYTHEIRNAMES”
“SILENCE IS CONSENT”
“BLUE LIVES MURDER”
“STOP POLICE BRUTALITY”
“ABOLISH THE POLICE”
“No Justice, No Peace”
“Hands up; don’t shoot”
“Let Them Breathe”
“NO MORE / RACE WAR”
“Take the law into your hands”
“COUP D’ETAT ILLUSTRATED”
“TRUMP IS DANGER TO US ALL”
“F*CK YOU YOU F*CKING F*CK”
“Don’t Turn Your Back on Racism”
“Vote Him Out”
“RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE”
“SYSTEMIC FAIL! FIX IT!!!”
“RAGE NEVER DEAD”
“All I Want Is Everything” — as comment: “You Can’t Have”
“A GOOD DOG”
“why suspect U.S.”
“HE’S STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU”
“DUMP TRUMP”
“Too Many Reasons To List”
“INFOE INFOE”
“The frontline in war on graffiti”
“Who Do We See About This”
“NO GIMMICKS ! NO BULL
“Today, some see the statue as a heroic group; others, as a symbol of racial hierarchy”
— [Teddy Roosevelt high on horseback, flanked by ‘Native American figure’ &
‘African figure’]
“DIABOLICALLY FUNNY”
“A Woman’s Place is in the Revolution”
“Fuccboi Hermit”
“option A”
“the dead poet”
“Fiyah”
“Life is Pain”
“OINK !”
“ZIPGUN”
“DETOR->”
“This area is for my beloved Central Park — HELEN FRANKENTHALER”
“SUPERGLUED”
“This Isn’t Good”
“You are responsible for your own orgasm”
“Equality”
“We Are Back”
“I Did Not Expect To Be Giving Up This Much For Lent”
“Full Frontal”
“I love the signs”
“We Are Not Your Scapegoat”
“O VOLUPTUOUS COOL-BREATH’D EARTH! — N.Y.C. Aids Memorial, selections from Walt
Whitman, Song of Myself, ending with “, I STOP / SOMEWHERE / WAITING / FOR YOU”
“IAMEVERYWHERE”
“They Finally Got It Right”
“LOUNGE DIVISION”
“Crib-to-College Pathway”
“Occupy a Job on Wall Street”
“AUTO HOW”
“Ew, what is this?”
“Thou shalt not mama alone”
“WOOF !”
“USE CRYSTAL METH”
“NO IDLING”
“LATE CAPITALISM”
“BLACK INK”
“I Miss Chinese Food”
“BRAWL CITY”
“Thou Shall Kindle No Fire”
“Don’t Forget the Dollar Signs”
“LUCH SPECIAL”
“I NEED MORE” — Jimmy Webb memorial, ‘Rest in RAW POWER’
“Public Defenders Will Never Be Silent”
“unleashed”
“Why Was The Statue Removed” — Dr. James Marion Sims, ‘father of modern
gynecology’, experimented on enslaved Black women without anesthesia
“A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else”
“L’AMOUR / PLUS FORT / QUE LA / HAINE”
“jewbelong.com”
“DEFI”
“Be Snackisified”
“Does Bruce Springsteen Dye His Hair ?”
“PANIC / STAY BUSY”
“UNITED BLOOD”
“THE ME”
“DETECTABLE WARNING”
“WTF IS GOIN ON”
“SENIOR CARE: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST” — imagined on NYC ambulance
“WORTHIT”
“ADOPT ME !”
“SCUMBAG SUPERSTARS”
“Blackout Tuesday”
“BE LIKE WATER”
“THIS SUCKS”
“SEND NUDES”
“AMERICA: STOP MURDERING YOUR PEOPLE”
“Rats Under Car Hoods”
“Kafka”
“City of Pride”
“99 PERCENT”
“FUCK RACISM”
“PROTECT YO HEART”
“The perfect bench in the perfect park”
“MAD”
“IMMIGRANTES y REFUGIADOS / BIENVENIDOS”
“NO TIME TO DIE”
“ELECTRIC LADYBUG”
“H2 00 Oooh !”
“PLEASE NOT HERE”
‘Together we can do anything”
“If Those Ovaries Could Talk”
“Reward Offered for identifying this recurrent garden thief”
“Displacers”
“A HELL OF A JOINT”
“Don’t / Panic”
“RATANIC ARMY”
“Ready Willing & Able”
“Don’t Think This Doesn’t Affect You”
“DONUT JUDGE ME”
“— — do lovers love? why then to heaven with hell. Whatever sages say and fools,
all’s well” — e.e. cummings (1894-1962), lived here last 40 years, with wife, model
& photographer, Marion Morehouse. Poet & Painter who made art of commas and parentheses, characterized himself as ‘author of pictures, draughtsman of words”
“ON AIR”
“WANT FREE PIZZA”
“WHO WILL / SURVIVE IN / AMERICA”
“MONDO PORCO”
“Rabbit Hole”
“CRACKHEAD JESUS IS COMING”
“ICON BANDIT”
“DECENT STORE”
“Nobody said everything was going to be interesting”
“You are on LENAPE land”
“Bernie beats Trump”
“I’m Not Checking You Out”
“THIS WAS PREVENTABLE”
“NEW YORK BUM”
“BLACKLIVESMATTER”
“Sugaring”
“GRAND COLLAPSE”
“Make Yourself A Gift To The World”
“Kiss Here”
“SHUT UP”
“YOUR COMPLICITY”
“ENOUGH”
“WE SELL SOUL”
“You must play the game”
“Super Slime World”
“GRIEVING THE LOST”
“NEVER HIDE”
“NEVER POSTPONE FUN”
“UNAUTHORIZED REMOVAL PROHIBITED”
“WE ARE STILL ALIVE”
“OBEY”
“Age is only a Number / And mine is Unlisted”
“You Are Not Special”
“AM I NEXT ?”
“A Change Is Gonna Come”
