This word famously appears in an anonymous poem published in 1973. Most of the urban legend associated with this poem attributes it to a senile elderly woman in a Dundee nursing home, where a nurse found it while packing her belongings following her death.
"The body it crumbles, grace and vigour depart, There now is a stone where once I had a heart: But inside this old carcase a young girl still swells, I remember the joys, I remember the pain, And I'm loving and living life over again, I think of the years all too few--gone too fast, And accept the stark fact that nothing can last, So open your eyes nurses, open and see, Not a crabbit old woman Look slower--see ME."
This word famously appears in an anonymous poem published in 1973. Most of the urban legend associated with this poem attributes it to a senile elderly woman in a Dundee nursing home, where a nurse found it while packing her belongings following her death.
"The body it crumbles, grace and vigour depart, There now is a stone where once I had a heart: But inside this old carcase a young girl still swells, I remember the joys, I remember the pain, And I'm loving and living life over again, I think of the years all too few--gone too fast, And accept the stark fact that nothing can last, So open your eyes nurses, open and see, Not a crabbit old woman Look slower--see ME."