Thank You for Saying Yes

March 30, 2003

FOUND by Keara Sexton in New Hampshire

I found this love letter next to a computer in my high school’s library.

You Know What It Is You Want

March 23, 2003

FOUND by Dan Miller in Chicago, Illinois

Found early September 2002 at the Rockwell el stop

Don’t Give It to War

March 16, 2003

FOUND by Dave Mcguire in Chicago, Illinois

Found a block from the Old Town School of Folk Music. Written on musical notation paper. Maybe this was an assignment for some sort of class on protest songs. There’s something to be said about avoiding moral arguments and getting straight to the point: war costs money, and I want the money instead.

Two Margaritas

March 9, 2003

FOUND by Tori Marlan in Chicago, Illinois

I found this on a covered trash bin in front of my neighborhood Walgreens. Perhaps whoever put it there couldn’t quite bring himself (or herself) to toss it into the receptacle.

Man and Mule

March 2, 2003

FOUND by Chris Pusateri in Boulder, Colorado

I rescued this photo from the lobby of my apartment, where some wayward tenant had left it. An hour later, my landlord — an enormous Serb, who like many in our complex, doubles as a Buddhist — saw the picture. “This picture,” he said, “reminds me of something you would see in my country.” “In this picture,” I said, “I am the mule.” My landlord laughed. I continued, “You will notice that the old man who holds the reins also carries a riding crop. The mule is the most stubborn of animals, and the old man has learned that if the reins fail to move the mule, he can always resort to the quirt.” I looked at the picture some more. “But I can’t figure out who the old man is.” The landlord looked at me, and with his typical Serbian solemnity said, “You are both the mule and the old man.”