As a counterpoint to the Irish poets featured the past couple of days, let's hop over to Wales for a visit with Dylan Thomas this morning. I saw this graffito scrawled on an outdoor chalkboard at a nearby university and decided it would make a fun photograph. It was shot using a Leica R6 using a 35 mm lens and Bergger Panchro 400 film. I've sent this image to friends as a birthday card numerous times. I've often wondered why a college student would chose this particular poem of Thomas's, as it seems like more of an old man's poem, at least at first blush. Then again, maybe it was a creaky old professor raging against the dying of the light who snuck out into the good night to leave his mark. If so, it was probably the most radical thing he'd done in 30 years. He must have felt like a total badass.
