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November 19, 2005 |
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Grand New York
FOUND by Nicolette Ebner
in Durham, North Carolina
I found this poem in the Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Jeez, I hope no college kid wrote this.
I'm fond of "effervesant chats." I'd like one of those to go with my new Easter hat.
I personally really enjoy moving my swift feet.
I agree with Stephanie!
I believe a college kid wrote this because they found it at DUKE.
This is actually pretty advanced stuff for a dookie.
Love the handwriting. Nice.
It reminds me of that "King of the Hill" episode where Peggy gets that job writing little asides in the newspaper. So silly.
This is nearly vomit inducing. I friggin hate overly simplified, overly positive, sugar-coated crap like this.
And rhyming words makes not a poem.
I hope to never meet the person who wrote this.
I thought my reaction to this was bad, but wow, Dave.
It sounds like an 8th grade girl whose vocabulary got ahead of her. Hopefully she'll grow out of this phase and be hideously embarassed of what she used to write, like the rest of us.
Am I the only one who noticed she spelt "gorgeous" wrong?
I actually liked this. But perhaps I am the only one? If you see it as a casual, personal note, rather than something formal meant for publication or class, it is quite elegant.
why wasn't this written in crayon?
Elegant?
Nah, sappy.
Good lord, that person's handwriting is almost freakishly consistent. At first I thought this had been typed out on a computer and superimposed over the lined paper. o.o
I think that everyone should know,
I think these pathetic poems blow.
I'm with Lauren. You just don't get good writing from those Duke students the way you do at Carolina.
Am I the only one who noticed she spelled effervescent wrong?
The best thing about this Find is that there's a whole 'nother side to this ode to NY. We'll never see it, of course, but we can spend countless idle hours wondering what it may have been...
something about the Bronx (though nothing to do with the zoo) something about Staten Island and its unsurpassed view. Something about Jamaica Queens (also known as Southside), something about Lawn-Guyland (a very expensive cab ride)... something about One Police Plaza (of which we learn from Law & Order) something about the Hudson,(right on the Jersey Border.) Something about Jones Beach, littered with medical waste, and something about some thug who got all up in her face...
spelling nazi, that is one of the greatest odes to a horrible poem that i have ever read.
spelling nazi , i really enjoyed your comment !
My first reaction was also to hope that a student hadn't written it . Then my imagination took over and i thought it was written by a child and sent to an older sibling attending Duke....
(Thats why I love this site , my imagination runs riot ..!)