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Ghazal Game #3: True or False

(Put a “T” next to all statements that are correct and an “F” next to those you consider false)

___ Eyes are windows. Breaking them hurts the soul.

The blindly devout monk shuttered the soul.

___ On Rita Dove’s “Seven Pool Players’” graves,

This line’s inscribed in blood: “We lurk the soul.”

___ Not even Wall Street bonuses before

The crash could have remotely perked the soul.

___ The Trekkies’ spiritual Enterprise

Always leads them to Captain Kirk the soul.

___ Robert Plant sang, “I don’t know, but I’ve been

Told, a quart of malt liquor burps the soul.”

___ Even the best of masturbators fail

In perverted attempts to jerk the soul.

___ Assuming an instrument could prove it,

James Brown’s movements could out-berserk the soul.

___ Religion best predicts where believers,

After they die, get to insert the soul.

___ Such sins as rape, murder, and suicide

Allow the devil to usurp the soul.

___ Eliot’s Prufrock proclaimed, “I grow old . . .

And my receding hairline irks the soul.”

___ The symbolic can’t depict the divine.

Not even “Rumi” really words the soul.