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March 06, 2008 |
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All She Wants
FOUND by Lily
in Nashville, Tennessee
My school has been around for over a century. My friend and I went snooping and found a small room hidden behind the old gym. It had many old files and portfolios of students from many years ago. In the mix was this small index card.
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Super Gay October 12, 2006 |
U R Such a ... December 20, 2007 |
Leave Me Be August 24, 2003 |
We Will Meet Again... March 14, 2004 |
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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...
Wow, that's really nice writing.
i just want poem.
actually i get poems from my love all the time.
i like finds that remind me how lucky i am.
I too want poem! I like this find a lot. Handwriting is beautiful. The feeling I get is strange - between sad and romantic. Ah, hopefully she got poem.
I like the handwriting too. The big loop on the J is nice. I wonder what it meant?
Lily's lucky to have had the chance to snoop through that room, I'm envious!
OK, then. Google this: Eggs Over Tokyo
She just wants... Poem Adept?
www.poemadept.com
The Booty Don't Stop!
Well, such elegant font, yes.
Poem is a perfume, too, and my first reaction was someone was note-passing maybe asking what gift a person wanted for a holiday or something.
Sweet and concise find !
farmer.. you have more depth than i thoughtyou would have. Tho i'm learning not to be surprised by these things
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or "starlet."
there's your poem, Dolores. yes i got that from the book. no i didn't memorize it i copied it word for word. i had it right here on my desk. yes i'm in love with it. so yeah. great found and LOVELY AWESOME handwriting--i can actually read it!!
There be many a hidey-hole in lovely stone buildings.
This looks to be the size of a business card. Wonder what's on the backside?
Not only is that very nice handwriting, I can tell it's an excellent pen too.
I think it would make a good song lyric.
No offense - but there was a whole room of old papers and THIS is the one that was selected as the best find? What's so special about it?
Thank you, Farmer.
I just want a poem too.
This is sweet and romantic, but there is also an air of sadness. ALL she wanted was a poem, meaning she either got nothing, or everything except.
The writing looks almost Elvish. Large and sweeping. Lovely.
Don't we all.
A word has been left out, and I have the feeling it is "epic."
Maybe "Poem" is actually a reference to a person or a pet? Since there is no "a" or "the"... I knew an english major once who named her fish Sonnet.
Hey found friends, check this out and consider signing this petition for a breast cancer bill in congress right now.
http://www.mylifetime.com/community/my-lifetim
Oh, and found guys, on the above petition's comment box there was a spell check when I typed in my comment. (trust me it was tasteful)
You think yall can do that too?
How bout and calculator for the spam questions as well?
Damn, here I thought that all she wanted to do was dance.
Well, my girl wants to party all the time.
I heard that all she wants is a kiss for her fears.
No, no, no. She just wants to have fun!
I thought just wanting to have fun was universal for all girls?
I always understood that "all she wants from you is a good time lover
Pretty litle boy for a week or two
Gonna break your heart and it wont recover
Leaving you all bitter and blue."
Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch her. She wants to be dirty.
Hey Pep, Firefox has a built-in spellcheck. Underlines as you go. Give it a shot:
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-a-Spell-Checker
A prosaic little note-to-self, possibly by a student teacher who doesn't have to come up with a whole presentation, because "she (the teacher) just wants poem." Teacher has no imagination, so student just has to come up with a poem for the kids to work with or take as an example. "Write it yourself, or look it up, but bring me something! No, you don't have to develop it, just get me a poem!"
Did you find that at Hume-Fogg?
I just want poetry.
Not really...that shit is overrated. Not really a poetry kind of girl.
or a song or a billet-doux.
I thought all she wanted was another baby
I wonder if "the" shouldn't be written before 'poem' but was somehow left out.
It would leave us to speculate what was so special about the poem or if it was a matter of life or death for a particular relationship.
Also, I agree with R in Tin Tin. I be there was something more interesting than this in that room. Oh well.
Oooh...I left out a t, "bet there was..."
Anyone remember Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project from a few years ago?
http://www.favoritepoem.org/
I love this find and I love the poetry links. The fact that the modifier (the, a?) has been left out is what makes this find. As if "poem" is a greater concept, bigger than an individual work of poetry. As if we could live in "poem" if we so wished.
I doubt that is what the original author meant; the author was probably just taking notes for a homework assignment.
But, that is exactly what makes a great "find" - something that can have added meaning beyond the original intent, depending what each person finds in it.
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She just wants my beef baloney; BEEF BEEF BEEF, BEEF BALONEY!
(Turbo will get that one.)
Hmm in Hum:
Way to work in yet another RHPS reference!
I think it is one.
I hate this find, because the instant I saw it that feaking "I'm not going to write you a love song because you ask for it..." song popped into my head and is now stuck, and that's the only line I know, playing over and over. I just woke up, so that's what I'm in for today. Not even the other lines about what women want are sticking.
I do enjoy the penmanship, however.
feaking, freaking, whatever.
how stella got her mail back.
Turbo, your comment had me LOLing.
This is an adorable find.
"Poem" is most definitely the name of the person who wrote the note.
The note is a brief, consise, focused observation on a woman of mutual acquaintance. She just wants and wants and wants. Never gives. Never shares. Always taking. Very hard to live with.
I used to be married to a woman like that. So, why did I get divorced? Simple. As the note says, "She just wants."
There is a book of poetry called "she just wants"... curious.
this find is annoying. its not beautiful like some of you are carrying on about. this is someone who doesn't know how to form a sentence properly.
speaking of, what's with posting corrections when you typo in your comment? is it really that big of a deal? when 4-5 people do it in one day it really gets old.
Smoking: Near as I can tell, you forgot to capitalize four letters in that post.
Sorry, didn't mean to capitalize that "N" in "Near".
D in sync:
this was the very first thing to come to my mind. I was starting to think that my favourite 90's popsters were forgotten, or had perhaps never broken through in America... but that song just makes me feel 9 years old. It feels better than it sounds.
(f-ing math spam?!)
@Smoking in the bathroom:
Don't ever try to quit. It'll make you really crabby.
Not that 'sync' is necessarily in any state of americanness, as most of you commentators seem to be... but just wondering, rather off topic: did the wonderful Ace of Base ever make it over there?
Smoking, you have spoken my mind. I was just going to mention the whole self-correcting thing. Is the idea of being chastised by the online Grammaristas really that intimidating?
I don't see the Find itself as annoying, just kind of dull.
Mr. Recovering...GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN!!! Really, I hope you're not serious.
I want poem:
poem love
poem dance
poem sex
poem poem
poem communication
poem cuddling
poem naps
poem opening
poem heart
poem truth
I hayte bad grammar, it is ungood.Me want poem.
@john: you sure are funny, what with doing exactly what i just complained about... but, next time you decide to critique someone's post you might want to at least be accurate.
@flargy: my take is that people somehow think it makes them look less stupid if they are able to immediately catch their own error.
maybe the author of the find uses english as their second language?
Flargy, may I suggest Lee Ving those types of comments at home and then have another beer.
I think this find is creepy!!
I was just browsing around past finds, and found this one from January 10th with *no comments*!! How strange is that? It is also the second post dated January 10th...
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/6724
April in a curious state: If there is indeed a book of poetry called "She Just Wants," and as other posters have been speculating, the lack of anything else in this note makes it seem like a 'note to self,' then maybe the author was taking down a note during class and s/he wanted to remember that for the poem that was discussed in class or poem s/he needs for a presentation or something nice s/he heard, s/he needs to remember to get "She Just Wants" for the 'Poem.' Neat!
My apologies for the annoying use of the ////////// all over my post! hahaha.
PS: I think people do correct themselves because there are too many posters feel overly self-conscious by attacking grammar/spelling...
perhaps I'm unique in that I, too, just want poem.
"suspended": I think "Ace of Base" was a one-hit wonder over here, but the hit escapes me right now...sorry.
I hate the math spam, too.
D in the mood: the one must have been that one (all that she wants is another baby, woah woah) or the one called 'the sign'... I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, I am (something) without you, I (something) you, woah woah...
oh, so many woahs. My english wasn't very progressed at the time, but then I suspect that theirs wasn't either.
Ace of Base had a song titled *All that she wants*
What are the odds??
Further off Topic: Ace of Base was the first CD I ever owned (bought with my saved lunch money and everything)... this was in Paraguay though, not the U.S.
PS: I just had a REALLY hard time deciding whether or not that was supposed to be "further" or "farther," to the point that I checked out dictionary.com... And all because I'm so scared of the grammar police!!
OHMYGOODNESS! Since I used to listen to Ace of Base when I didn't really speak English, I always thought the lyrics said: "All that she wants is not a baby, she's gone tomorrow but, all that she wants is not a baby--eh heh heh." Never did make any sense, but I just figured they had artistic license! hahahaha!!
I actually meant to check the spelling of 'woah', n.b. after I had posted, and not intending to post a correction. But then I remembered an album by Nelly Furtado. Don't know the album though, just the title. Or maybe that's not the same kind of woah. English is woah.
gin: so they *did* make it in America! Swedish pop in Paraguay... interesting
Oh my gosh, I wish I had been with you when you found the little room full of old files! That is like the best creepy-good feeling in the whole world!
gin in tonic: on second thought, the lyrics might well have been 'all that she wants is-nnnot-a-baby'... strange English as far as I know, but hoo nose.
farmer in the dell is my favorite commenter ever.
Ace of Base was not a one-hit wonder. They had at least 3 hits.
Okay, I think I am paranoid, gramatically-speaking, because I have a job where accuracy is demanded. I lose my job if I do not have at leas 98.5% accuracy or better. So, the Grammar and Spelling Nazis really have a hold on my life. Why it translates to FOUND, I'm not sure. Neither am I sure why I feel compelled to explain myself to Flargy on this account.
Thanks to whomever originally posted the Ace of Base song. That pesky love song crap is now out of my head.
Did I mention it is really hard to be gramatically and spelling-ly accurate with a brain problem? least.
Hey, Grammar Police! Arrest this Spam, it talks in maths.
Who wouldn't want a poem?
What did math ever do to you guys:(
Math geeks look at Found too you know.
What I happen to lack in spelling (mostly) and grammer I make up for in adding =D
I want cookies!
sweet???
romantic???
sad??????
what on EARTH are you guys on?? How can you get any meaning from this aside from the fact that it was probably a note passed from one student to another, probably about a teacher (the 'she') wanting a poem for an assignment.
GEEZ!!! You guys read into it WAY too much
Here's your citation:
"She Just Wants" by Beverly Rollwagen. Minneapolis, MN: Nodin Press, 2004. 94 pages.
(May be hard to find in a library unless you're in Minnesota.)
Smoking, I wasn't trying to be funny or accurate, I was trying to irritate you. Mission accomplished!
@Jilly in Wonderland:
i was wondering the same thing! i used to attend there before i moved. so Lily in Nashville, was that found at good ol' Hume-Fogg? i bet it was behind the smaller gym. :)
Donnie Darko wrote: "GEEZ!!! You guys read into it WAY too much"
.... Isn't that the point of FOUND?!
just catching up on a few days worth of found. sorry i missed out on monday (http://foundmagazine.com/find/2005)
you cats were a good time :o
@ tiptoe - it's a bummer about jeff healey
not much to say about today's post, but Tesla's "Love Song"
is currently on the radio. does that count as a poem?
Oh man, I forgot about Ace of Base. You don't even here that on the lite rock or oldie stations.
Brain Problem, you had the audacity to say, "Neither am I sure why I feel compelled to explain myself to Flargy on this account." That's enough insubordination out of you, mister.
Obviously, since you hold yourself to the same standard on the Found comment board that your employer holds you to at work, you equate Found with work. Thus, your explaining yourself to me means you equate me with your boss, and rightly so. Now go get me some coffee, you miserable little pissant.
Suspended, I love you. -Have you heard the John Vanderslice cover? A friend burned me the Radiohead tribute album & it's on that. Some of it's amazing.
amazing find :-)
I'm pretty much unmoved by this Find, but Dolores Haze in Syracuse said the first thing that popped into my mind, too.
@john: yep, all it takes is a few words from a stranger posted on a website to irritate me. in fact, i'm bubbling over with rage. mission accomplished indeed soldier!
She just needs education
Oh yeah, something rude for the day... ummm... A lot of you are closed minded pricks that fail to see the difference between evil and pained.
Kirax is Pepper('s alter ego), you are not smart enough to give insults.
@Gin in Tonic - Yayyyyy!!!!!!! I wasn't the only one who scraped together enough money to buy that cd! It also happened to be my very first cd! Although, I was probably WAY more dorky than you considering I was 12 and in the US when I bought it and no one I knew (or know now) has or will ever admit to liking them. I still have that cd and I force people to listen to it on roadtrips. *Mwahahahaha*
@ Suspended and spelling - Your hypno hairdo is making me feel ill.
cassisu: I don't know it, but might check it out, thanks for the hint. And for the, erm, love. And since I already brought up the off-topic of English as a foreign language, I do feel that the verb 'love' is used way more freely by English speakers than many other-speakers. Although the free use has somewhat affected the other, less free use, to the point that now we, too, speak of loving our fast-food and such. Not me, though, me just love poem.
rebel: love this song! but is it not 'hitler hairdo'? I'm quite sure it is. Maybe you got the censored version?
Suspended - You're right, I was just flying off the seat of my pants and I haven't heard the song since a certain someone made me listen to it over and over and over 6 years ago. Maybe it's time I wade past the memories (back to that sea of idiots again, lol) and fall back in love with Radiohead...
@Suspended -
Fun fact: In the early version of the song, it started like this:
Karma police arrest this girl
She stares at me
As if she owns the world
And we have crashed her party
But then they ran into this guy who buzzed like a refrigerator and/or a detuned radio and the world as we know it has never been the same...
Hooray alternate lyrics! I didn't know them.
Yes, the watering-down of the word "love" is a little sad. But it's easier to use than "I feel-a-sudden-affinity-for-and-joy-because-of you." [Say, how might describe your feelings for a stranger in a park on a sunny day who hands you a flower in a non-creepy way.)
It is harder to explain, & "love" is shorter...
Oh well. Maybe I just love poem.
I just want dirty limerick...
There once was a plumber from Lee
Who was plumbing his girl by the sea
She said Stop your plumbing,
There's somebody coming!
Said the plumber still plumbing... It's me!
TEE HEE
oh no, I'd like a poem and a hand to hold, dear sir. That is, if you wouldn't mind?
she's FOUND it.
Yes poems are excellent :) I still remember the first poem a guy ever wrote for me lol it went like.... "violets are blue roses are red I would be so sad if you were dead..." lol kinda sweet in a creepy way lol
I have poem, which makes me very happy. But I want to go to the hidden room behind the old gym where this note was found. There was a secret room where i used to go, at the University of Oregon in the oldest building on campus. It was a cozy nook full of old books, with lofts and little sofas tucked into corners. A round window overlooked the campus. I loved to hide out there and look through the old books and curl up in the chair by the window. No one was ever in there. But one time someone was taking a nap in the loft.
i was wondering the same thing, which nashville school is this from?
Clover, that's poemetic!
It was a cozy nook full of old books,
with lofts and little sofas tucked into corners.
I have poem for spam:
6 times 8 is 48,
pick up sticks and throw them in the lake.
@ DONNIE- I agree!!! One student handing it to another student, whom wasn't paying attention or skipped class, or she was sick that day. The homework of the day.
@ TESS- I'm Irish and I used to go (every Friday and Saturday nights!) to our local PUB, the name of it was "LIMERICKS!"
Anyhoo, fantastic Limerick!
I want 'POEM', too! So, here me go...
My Wish To You
On your lips a smile
In your heart a song
For that is where
they both belong
My wish to you
for all your time
to find your life
will be sublime
Not my best, just somethin' I wrote as I was writing it.
mmmm, i love the simplicity
@ Jilly- I thought the same!
It also could have been found in MLK. I know it has a room like that behind the old gym, which is now the auditorium. Having attended both schools, i think either is quite possible.
I'm happy to see something from Tennessee, let alone Nashville. :D
This is sad.
She just wants poem.
I just want to be happy.
'She just wants'...that's a poem right there! And the handwriting...that's a visual poem!
"She just wants poem"...
it makes so much sense to me. i hope She gets many poems, and i hope each one is beautiful.
I just want happy find
"She just wants poem"
Oh, so that's what kids were calling it back then. At least you can say it in mixed company.
this looks really fake. >_> I think you just typed it up on some paper stock you found on the internet. P: