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November 04, 2009 |
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Phonetic Swearing
FOUND by Mel K
in an elementary school library
I found this while helping inventory books in a school library at the end of the school year.
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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...
So he found a hockey mask and the rest is movie history.
oh poor Jason. I do hope the author wrote it with compassion rather than making fun of him.
This is better than 90% of the published poetry I have seen. A lot of writers would have gone for a 'short bus' twist but not this world weary citizen.
Is it just me, or does elementary school get more and more dramatic each year?
And they both graduated with high school diplomas thanks to the board of education policy that all children will be treated equally.
Jason showed up to school with with a long leather coat, lots of guns, and shot holes in everyone because he has no friends...
And Melanie, in a desperate attempt to gain some friends among the "in crowd", wrote a brief essay about Jason's mournful weeping that got circulated among the second grade illuminati. Alas, the ploy did not gain her the status she desired. Melanie, too, now has no friends. Not even Jason.
For his part, Jason quickly learned to hide his emotions.
@Random - I don't think it's more dramatic. I was tormented on the elementary school bus every day (35 years ago) by two girls who theatened to get off the bus with me and beat me up, along with a litany of insults that no eleven-year-old should have to hear. Fortunately, the bus driver liked me (or pitied me), and she never let them follow through. In school, the drama about who was whose friend, boys, and who did or didn't wear a bra yet was out of control. Girls can really be viscious.
I think Jason wrote this. Poor Jason. I almost cryed when I read this.
awww.. Jason... I've been there man.
Boy oh boy this hits close to home. I was also tortured on the bus, being the top nerd of the world. I had to be the only girl in sixth grade wearing JC Penney cordorouy blazers and ascots. It's like i was trying to dress for the steno pool. I also chose to sit in the front seat of the bus so I could chat with the fifty year old bus driver.
Don't worry Jason...life gets better.
this is exactly why i started walking to/from school. the school bus was the worst! you were TRAPPED with every bully there was!
course, it was great exercise and i made a lot of friends on the path that were there for the same reasons. lesson here? avoid the bus and your life can only improve! *hee*hee*
Looking at it as a poem, this is easily in the top 5% of most affecting, moving things I've read. That it was not intended as such only heightens the meaning - it seems to beg the question, what was the intent?
I bet nobody likes Jason because he's more interesting and more real than all the other kids.
OK I'm totally confused. "Phonetic swearing"? Where? "Jason cryed on the bus because he has no frends." How is that swearing, phonetic or otherwise? (And how can the kid spell "because" but not "cryed"?)
And what poem? Where poem?
I realise I'm sleep deprived, but I'm also lost. Misleading title, and no poem I can see.
finder here.
baby basil - The original note that I found and sent in had a bunch of phonetic swear words about Jason in addition to this part of the note. Not sure why it got cropped out- is there no swearing on FOUND? So yes, title is very confusing, but not intended that way.
Thanks, Mel K.
Phew!
Thought Basil and I were the only ones who were missing something. But how odd that no one else remarked on the title until now.
And maybe people think it's a 'poem' because it's laid out in four short lines.
I think this may have more to do with the fact that it's apparently written on a very small Post-It note.
(But it's a big problem with kids writing 'poetry' -- and probably adults too: some teacher shows you something and says 'this is a poem', it's written in short-ish lines, so the hapless student thinks that's what makes it a poem.
Uh uh.
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Jonathan - I was bummed that the phonetic curse words weren't included. The author clearly wasn't Jason, as he/she wrote not so nice things about him.
8-)
This made me sad.
:(
aww poor baby :( *HUGS JASON*
So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Thanks Nighty
)*j*(
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OMG this is so much funnier with the phonetic swearing. Maybe I'm just running on too little sleep, but I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!
Thanks, HPD, for the heads up.
And Okay. James? Davy? WHO wrote this note? Ovcoarse Jason has friends!
Now that the find is repaired it is much better. I am sending it to my whiney crybaby coworker Jason. The s**t will hit the fan!