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31/03/2003

Web chat has been alive with "have you seen those poems?" "Are they for real?"...

The Poems on the Underground have never quite looked like this before. William Shakespeare would turn in his grave...

"Shall I compare thee to a multinational
thou art more more arrogant and polluting
Rough winds remind me to be rational
as global warming starts to put the boot in. "

Read the poems[PDF, 186 kb]

Greenpeace has finally owned up.

A sample of web chat:
"Bravo! Anti-global-warming campaigners culture-jam Poems on the Underground, the long-running art project on the Tube in London, replacing poems with anti-Esso and anti-Bush screeds."

..."As I sit here, sweltering, I remembered about the tube at the weekend. Anti Esso poems have appeared all over the Northern Line in a style similar to the Poems On The Underground that sometimes adorn the ad-space. They are really well done, you don't realise until you get to the "Yah Boo! Esso Sucks" type lines.

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