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7 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 evenWall Street bonuses before The crash could have remotely perked the soul. ___ TheTrekkies’ 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. ...

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