{"id":1925,"date":"2023-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:54:18","slug":"when-i-look-at-all-the-throw-ups-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/when-i-look-at-all-the-throw-ups-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"when I look at all the throw-ups in los angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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when I look at all the throw-ups in los angeles<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Henry Romain<\/strong>\n \n April 21, 2023<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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I think about how the first time<\/p>\n

you taught me tagging we went out back behind ********** and you let<\/p>\n

me use your 15mm forest green Krink mop marker to write<\/p>\n

whatever I wanted on a piece of cardboard we pulled from the dumpster<\/p>\n

and after I practiced a while and figured out a name and style I liked<\/p>\n

(and after I studied all of the tags around me in Des Moines<\/p>\n

like ZERO, KOBE, DEATH, YUOME, and FORTY)<\/p>\n

we\u2019d go out downtown on warm humid summer days at sunset<\/p>\n

wearing black leather shell-toes and baggy blue jean shorts and tag in<\/p>\n

iridescent chrome dripping letters and multicolored solid paint streaks<\/p>\n

things like dumpsters, windows, concrete beams, parking meters, electric boxes,<\/p>\n

signs, signposts, sewer plates, railroad tracks, doors, mirrors\u2014<\/p>\n

KALO<\/p>\n

ROMA<\/p>\n

\u2014and it wasn\u2019t just this that was great but<\/p>\n

it was how we\u2019d do all that and go to the skatepark after to meet up<\/p>\n

with Sam and Liam who\u2019d bring Black & Milds and forties of Miller<\/p>\n

High Life and we\u2019d stay there until after the lights turned off<\/p>\n

and smoke a couple of bowls down by the river and dance to<\/p>\n

underground drum & bass artists only we knew like Casper<\/p>\n

McFadden and Klaus Veen (and it was at delirious times like these,<\/p>\n

high, drunk, with me ruminating about serendipity and determinism<\/p>\n

and how Earth is a minuscule mote of cosmic dust that I think<\/p>\n

you may have begun to understand what I was saying about Buddhism)<\/p>\n

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and now I look outside my apartment window and see a homeless<\/p>\n

man with a beard and no shirt and no shoes staring at a yellow flower<\/p>\n

and recall the homeless people we\u2019ve talked to outside of Quiktrip<\/p>\n

at 2 AM and at the library\u2014definitely tweaking on meth or speed\u2014<\/p>\n

do you remember meeting Georgia? he was a real nice<\/p>\n

person his tag was DGK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Henry Romain<\/strong> was born in Wyoming and grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. Indulgent in art and philosophy, he is acutely skeptical of modern societal\u00a0norms. His favorite poets are Allen Ginsberg and E. E. Cummings. 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