Written on the Walls
Praha ♦ Prague
A poem on the library wall...
Školská, 2006
.. all you need is love
Lennon's Wall, Kampa, 2006
Vonts, have you died out or what?
Bullshit! We are sitting in a club, mixing records.
(allusion to characters from popular Czech children books from the 40s about boy scouts,
with a very anachronistic answer; the sign comes from the part of the city where the books were taking place)
Řásnovka, 2006
The world is changing at the base
We who have been nothing, let's be everything
(aka "The earth shall rise on new foundations: We have been nought, we shall be all!"
- a quote from the Czech version of The Internationale)
Klárov, 2006
At Pavlov’s square,
by the ATM machine,
I fell asleep in coma...
Poetry for pedestrians
Kateřinská, 2006
I don't want to!
Florenc, 2006
Irritating non-lovers,
not lying to anybody
Benediktská, 2006
Do you blend with the mass?
Don’t let anyone confuse you.
Kampa park, 2006
... is watching you.
Kampa park, 2006
Rice addicts on the rise...
Florenc, 2006
Another member of the merry banana family.
Florenc, 2006
You will die.
Letná, 2006
¨Even fish can feel pain.
Kačerov, 2006
The affiliation of this darkness is different
White bollards behind lime
And I am so beseeching
As only mercy can be
And winter nights with snow
Letenská, 2006
Free elections
(echoes of the "velvet" revolution in 1989, which ended the totalitarian communist regime)
Pavlíkova, 2006
Smoker, you stink!
(the same sign has appeared near schools all around Prague 4 - an original way of public enlightement?)
Poláčkova, 2006
She-smoker, you stink!
(... no gender discrimination)
K Lesu, 2006
How to use the president...
Stromovka, 2006
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