Writing as Architecture by Chris Volkay

There is no more writing,
only strings and conglomerated clusters
of letters, properly punctuated,
syntaxed, polished into columns,

Da Vinci and Van Gogh
with rollers and spray cans,
following the paint by numbers,
written on the walls,
the chalk white stucco walls.

Rules, formulas, structures, guidelines,
over-seen by the self-appointed
New York gate-keepers.
Assuring conjoined, condo-ized,
mowed, land-filled and stuccoed,
writing.
Chalk white stucco.

Chris Volkay