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In two months, an unassuming house on Pape Avenue, north of Danforth, has captivated the city's (okay, mostly our) imagination. Photographer Rob Cruickshank first spotted a mysterious set of signs on February 16—one of them read, in part, "Blow up this house / you will get land / kill the witness of / 1949 of Changdu / & 1950 of Maurtisus." Chengdu is a Chinese city that became Communist at the tail end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 (the Beijing Olympics website says that was the year it was "liberated"); Mauritius is an island off the coast of Africa with a history of Chinese immigration, immigration that dropped off drastically once China restricted policies after its civil war ended—which might begin to explain the house being (as the sign beside it said) the "first black house on Pape."

Pape Avenue's most intriguing poet (or non-poet, as the case may be) is back at it, recently adding the above cardboard sign to his collection of handwritten glory.

Several questions come to mind upon reading the above poem found taped to the window of an east-end home. First, what happened between the author and his wife to solicit this rage-filled verse? Second, are "water skin" and "green head" meant to be insults? And lastly, what do donuts and a family of pigeons have to do with anything?

Discovered on Pape Avenue south of Dundas Street East by Torontoist Flickr Pooler squeakyrat (also responsible for this great discovery), there are at least a few other signs like these in the east end of the city. Corny? Yes. Pretty adorable? That too. Rollover the image to switch between the "Lost" and "Found" posters. Photos by squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.