Line Meme

The lines that stick. A meme from facebook and one that I particularly enjoyed. What are the ten lines from poems or songs that stick in your head when you are walking around your day. Or if you stop a minute and think of some lines or poetry, what comes up? It’s fine if you distort the line as you remember it, if you mis- remember it. I think that’s interesting.

Copy the directions and make a note with 10-20 friends tagged. (with apologies to all you fine poets who are not on this list!) Note: I ended up with two number 8s and couldn’t cut either… Please note further that had this included FICTION I would not have been able to contain the lines…

1. It’s just a little peg/my dog of water. Erin Moure

2. Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky. T.S. Eliot

3. There was a shopping mall/ now it’s all covered with flowers. David Byrne

4. I have listened to the hard gossip of race that inhabits this road…even in this I have tried to hum… Dionne Brand

5. Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech. Christian Bok

6. My human face a blazing shield/is all that I could give or she demand/ so I shall hazard shame for future love/and list with soldiers my degenerate name: Debbie. My name is Debbie… Lisa Robertson

7. A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing…. Gertrude Stein

8. No worse, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief/more pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Hopkins

8. I don’t know what to do/ two states of mind in me. Carson/Sappho

9. Looking takes you so far on a leash of delight, then removes it and says/the price of admission to further is your name. Tim Lilburn

10. a not-turtle-plus-rat-catchat/a plus-dog-plus-rat-pas-chat dog. Caroline Bergvall

I’ve had to add the latter as it insists:

11. In cess, in dis-/ownmost, in ripture,/in slow-mo history cease,/ in bio in haemo in necro-yet how/dumbfound how/dazzled, how/mortally lucky to be. Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee for another generation: