Check it Out: Irritation Art

So I was trudging to work the other day on my usual subway route which requires, at one point, a walk through a long tunnel at the Times Square station that connects 8th Ave to 7th Ave. It was a regular Thursday, except for the hangover I really didn't need - I had unwisely thrown all 'school night' caution to the wind this particular week, not sure exactly why.

Anyway, so the Times Square tunnel isn't really that different from any other subway tunnel... except for one thing. As you're walking along from 8th to 7th if you chance to look up every 5 steps or so, you'll be hit by a series of little, seemingly innocuous phrases.. black letters on a white background, much like a street sign. Now, I see these phrase-signs every bloody day, and although I'm usually a little irked each time I read them, today, with my head throbbing and my insides churning, I suddenly realised the full extent of their meaning, and what they were really intended to be. IRRITATION ART. Plain and simple. And sadistic and cantankerous and mean. A visual installation with the sole aim of really annoying anyone who engages with it.

In this case, the 'art' in question is a series of signs that make up a whole poem, and it goes like this

Overslept,
So tired,
If late,
Get fired.
Why bother?
Why the pain?
Go home,
Do it again.

Thanks. A lot. So check it out. Just not on your way to work, with a hangover.