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[exnavy]

Ping

[kabar]

Not far from where I grew up in Port Jervis.

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[bk1000]

“I leave early”. Written in the present tense. Sounds a little like a suicide note.

[logi_cal869]

Someone’s idea of art or, for that matter humor.

Just because it’s carved into a piece of stone doesn’t make it any less just another piece of Grafitti or garbage thrown into the river.

There will be those that argue this a piece of art or poetry, but I view it differently

Even stupid people have creative/artistic capability.

But it amuses me to no end the possible final thought rolling through the author’s mind in the remaining moments of consciousness after he jumped into the river, the stone tablet weighing him or her down:

“SHIT! I didn’t sign my stone!”

Or, from another perspective, the young prankster awaiting the right time to claim authorship of the discarded, poorly-executed prank.

Whatever. If it were written in 18th century prose and were well-weathered, I’d be more interested.

Thx for the amusement...

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I suspect the mysterious stone carver may have been a FReeper! Check out the way he/she spelled "you're" in that one line.

[smokingfrog]

though weary be
the shapeless loneliness

knowingly held
in love and light,

does casts in stone
the shape of hope

where there once
was naught

[bgill]

A gravestone.

[Political Junkie Too]

Hey... wait a minute...

That looks like a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman, and run through the river for 15 generations to make them look old. ;-)

-PJ

[dfwgator]

The missing 5 Commandments?

[Sacajaweau]

Sounds Poe influenced.

On another note, he speaks of a group and a love...and I have to think it is a family and not a "lover".

Just some kid being creative.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Does this rate as an archeological find?

[Paine in the Neck]

"...one in which your all involved..."

Look for someone who was government school educated post circa 1962...

[butlerweave]

Quick ,contact that idiot on America Unearthed

[lurk]

The face of it has been ground flat with a power grinder. See the round swirls. Modern. Look for a high school/college male with a couple of power tools.

[RegulatorCountry]

Looks like somebody wanted a handmade memorial stone for a grave to me. Not all that old, the text was stained for legibility.

[P.O.E.]

PA Ping!

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!

Thanks ETS

[1010RD]

“The group, in its triumvirate of rafts”?

Pat got just enough education to show how little she really knows.

[null and void]

Your neck of the woods.

I hope you have a VERY good alibi!