Short, Lyric Passage

Assignment: Write an imitation of one of the short lyric passages that I handed out in class. We did Patricia Hampel's body memory already. After each passage you'll see suggestions for how to imitate it, but you have a lot of leeway. You might use it simply as a prompt, or you might try a close imitation of form and/or style. Imitating is just a writerly practice that people have found works.

Personal Note: Oh. Um. Hrrm. Evidently, I was supposed to imitate one of those passages. Whoops. I'm in my Introduction to Logic class, and something on one of the slides just set me off. Hopefully something not based on one of the passages, but something that I think still fits the criteria of a short lyric passage will do.

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Given the statements

Which of the following must be true?

Given the experiences

Which of these lessons have you learned?

Given the finite days in your whole life

Which of the following will you sacrifice?

In a life of infinite opportunity,

How do you cope with infinite loss?

Given the chance to turn away

Will you hide from all the uncrossed paths?

Given the ability to make a choice

Will you pretend it was the only one?

Given exposure to all we could be

Will you be the mourner of all we could not?

In our finite life of infinite lives

How will I answer the life that I have?

By living.