The Ruthless Vandal's Book of Poems

(or things I like to write on walls)

   1. All good art is plagiarized
   2. If you are not busy being born you are busy dying
   3. the urge to destroy is also a creative urge
   4. more and more people get less and less
   5. those who attempt the impossible achieve the absurd
   6. property is theft, theft is proper
   7. revolution is not showing life to people it is making them live
   8. no matter who you vote for the government always gets in
   9. if voting could change anything it would be illegal
  10. Amish in space
  11. chaos never died
  12. the junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer he sells the
        consumer to the product he does not degrade and simplify his merchandise he
        degrades and simplifies his client
  13. the bourgeoisie possesses rather less imagination than a worm and has, in place
        of a heart, a larger than life sized corn which troubles him when there is a
        change in the weather
  14. the educator must be educated
  15. leave their world behind
  16. decapitate capital
  17. legless in disneyland
  18. talking about life today is like talking about rope in the house of a hanged man
  19. alienation is good for business
  20. deregulate desire
  21. get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up, go to work,...
  22. one ordinary weekend is more bloody than a whole month of revolution
  23. confront the spectacle with its own irrelevance
  24. sorry about all the torture and everything
  25. USA out of North America
  26. change your life not the channel
  27. is this your university or do you just go to school here?
  28. Groucho Marxism
  29. murder your television
  30. artists safely back in galleries, workers back in factories, students back in class
        says police chief
  31. some people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation
  32. in the global village everything seems to be happening at the other end of town
  33. capitalism...it's not just for breakfast anymore
  34. art is dead but the student is a necrophiliac
  35. the modern economy demands the mass production of students who are
  36. not educated and have been rendered completely incapable of thinking
  37. revolution is unavoidable
  38. faster and more beautiful than lightning
  39. don't dream it, be it
  40. some defeats are really victories, while some victories are more shameful than
        any defeat
  41. what sickens the university sickens us all
  42. unitary critique yahoo!
  43. down with powdered soup!
  44. culture is the inversion of life
  45. culture is the meaning of an insufficiently meaningful world
  46. down with the dictatorship of illusion
  47. if we live, we live to tread on kings
  48. knowledge comes through pleasure
  49. nothing worth knowing can be taught
  50. failure is to form habits
  51. give yourself over to absolute pleasure
  52. think apart resist together
  53. It takes two to high five
  54. exaggeration precedes invention
  55. workers back students
  56. students back workers
  57. when the finger points at the moon the AMS hack looks at the finger
  58. boredom is counter-revolutionary
  59. don't change employers, change your life
  60. be salty not sweet
  61. the restraints imposed on pleasure excites the pleasure of living without
        restraint
  62. if you think for others, others will think for you
  63. if you write graffiti for others, others will write graffiti for you
  64. be realistic demand the impossible
  65. rage over fear
  66. lose all respect
  67. forget learning begin dreaming
  68. undo your mind as often as you undo your pants
  69. tear something down make something up
  70. to compromise a little is to capitulate a lot
  71. work is a crocodile in the river of desire
  72. laziness is the source of all virtue
  73. we don't need students to serve structures, we need structures to serve students
  74. kill your inner cop
  75. reform my ass
  76. your freedom makes mine that much better
  77. heavy load light salary
  78. big loan small future
  79. you can't imagine what your missing when your missing your imagination
  80. It is forbidden to forbid
  81. sacrifice sacrifice
  82. concentrate on day dreaming
  83. to desire reality is good
  84. to realize your desires better
  85. and everyone wants to breathe, and no one can breathe, and some say we can
        breathe tomorrow but no ones dies because they are already dead
  86. people who work are bored when they don't work, people who never work are
        never bored
  87. show me the money. show me the revolution!
  88. mo' money, mo' problems.     mo' revolution, no problems!
  89. capitulate, graduate, suffocate
  90. direct democracy not dick head bureaucracy
  91. perfect refusal
  92. assassinate boredom
  93. make every occasion a special revolution
  94. uncommon students, uncommon style, uncommon sense revolution
  95. don't sacrifice the present to the future
  96. if the AMS was a perfume it would be called Wet Fart
  97. loser-take-all!
  98. unchain pleasure
  99. authentic life not phony boloney
100. Hollywood out of UBC!
101. where communication is genuinely sought misunderstandings are no crime
102. what's left of the official left sucks officially
103. spontaneous poutine not soulless routine
104. imagination is the exact science of possible solutions
105. can the promise of pleasure tomorrow compensate for today's boredom?
106. poetry will be made by all, not by one
107. unions are the state in sheep's clothing
108. no god, no master, no administration, no AMS
109. those who talk of revolution and class struggle with no explicit reference to
        daily life, without understanding the subversive character of love and the
        positive aspects of refusal, talk with a corpse in their mouth
110. professors make us old
111. be cruel
112. cops beat students, rocks beat scissors
113. consume more, live less
114. take the U or the U will take U
115. revolution in the service of poetry not poetry in the service of revolution
116. your titanic is my cloud nine
117. float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, smash the state
118. revolution is fabulous
119. it is better to be too bold, rather than too cautious
120. capitalism isn't what it used to be
121. Echo Beach Now!
122. let the dead bury the dead
123. sabotage and scandal are the spice of life
124. looting is the natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of
        commodity abundance
125. it is better to change friends than ideas
126. I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires
127. art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles
128. there is nothing funny about the revolution
129. to be continued...

BAD
PRESS

vancouver
1998

Here are copies of the ruthless vandal for you to print out and distribute to your friends and loved ones