Wall Of Words



This is all a poem is,

                   prose and rows of

letters in groups with

                    gaps and spaces

between each course.

               Every now and then

one might need to

                insert a long phrase,

these are the lentils

                             of literature.

The only difference

                    between masons

and poets is their

         composition techniques.

Bricklayers tend to

                  construct from the

bottom up and they

             don’t use punctuation

marks, whereas

           lyricists do the inverse.

But mortarboards are

                not the sole domain

of intellectuals.

       Their completed creations

have a visible symbiosis,

                             works of art.

That is until some low

                 case rascal graffiti’s

it with

         B      L       O     C      K  


C     A     P     I     T     A     L     S.




Finn. 29th April Greece.




Dedicated to Roger Waters

of Pink Floyd author of

Another Brick In The Wall.

The lyrics were a reaction

to his time at Cambridgeshire

High School where teachers

were of the impression that

children were homogeneous.

Hence the term just another

brick in the wall.

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I’m an autistic dyslexic expelled

from school because the system

failed me. The poem which is in

toothing format is attempting to

draw a comparison between the

poet and bricklayer who may have

actually been in the same class

at school. But what is more

important is how the author got

to show the poets frustration

and gave him a schizophrenic

delinquent character bringing him

to deface what he had created.


What is also worth noting is that the

poem was formatted in with is known

in wall construction as  “ Toothing “.

That is when bricks are left with gaps

where the mason can pick it up later.

This of course is a metaphor for the

poet and his everlasting expectation

that which caused his mental inertia

all his life, will any time now pass.


But this is an innocent naivety, the

wall will never be completed, it can’t,

because the poet never did or will

achieve notoriety, thus, he will never

get a mortar board from which to

trowel the jointing material to finish.