Art Garfunkel: How Ferguson Decision And 'Poem On The Underground Wall' Intersect

“Now from his pocket quick he flashes/The crayon on the wall he slashes/Deep upon the advertising/A single-worded poem comprised of four letters.” Those are lines from the 1960s Simon & Garfunkel song, Poem On The Underground Wall. Art Garfunkel, in our recent interview, says the message of alienation applies to Ferguson, MO, site of recent unrest following the grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black teenager.