Ign of the imes

A thief pilfers letters

off signs all over the city

and splatters the walls

with meaningless graffiti

sometime during the night

when most people sleep

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Probably the thief had a

bad experience in his youth

and this perverse revenge is akin

to repeatedly killing his

second grade teacher

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usually the act is blamed on

third world shenanigans

anti-savant codes for gang events

cloaked announcements of

bragadocio coups and

where the loot is stashed

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I can’t help think what do

foreigners trying to learn our

language do while looking all over

for another UTO ARTS STORE

or trying to figure out what

a DRY LEANERS is

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What baffles me is how those

missing letters appear on top

of freeway signs in the busiest

part of downtown - and thats why

I think its an evil cult spreading

messages of mystical powers - who else

would climb a sixty foot wall

to spill their guts out in letters

that don’t spell anything

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Of course I suspect the real reason

Is a secret code for underground

Saboteurs wanting control of our minds

Maybe TEN IS HOES has a subliminal effect

On our brains to over-eat and join a gym

Or DO NOT ARK IN A ED ZONE is a

Deliberate attempt to increase the city’s coffers

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Honestly Officer I wouldn’t park in this

FIR LANE unless some weird power

forced me to - so you see you can’t give me

that ticket because I’m not the guilty one.