Roadchick tagged me in yesterday's comments to do the "Grab the book nearest you" meme...
and now I'm both busted and vindicated - It's an overdue library book - but see Librarian police, it's not lost! I have it right here (found it under the couch last night)...and I'm dropping it off this afternoon. Honest! (The really sad part is - even though it's overdue, I never finished reading it...I feel so embarrassed. I should have this thing memorized by now. And probably some poor poet is foaming at the mouth, waiting for it. I'm sorry, Poet/Library Reader! It's coming...)
1. Grab the book nearest you. (The Poetry Home Repair Kit)
2. Turn to page 123
3. Scroll down to the fifth line.
4. Post the next 3 lines on your blog.
Okaaay - it's the second verse of a poem, "Vestige," by Jonathon Greene:
"In the closet
a chalice of her last night's urine
now numinous relic."
Remember Roadchick, you asked! Anyone else want to play? Hmmm, Tammy, Diane, Jill (or did you already do this?) Daisy? Lisa Froggy? Lisa Ocean Dreamer? Judie, how about you? Miss R? I know - I tag all of the commenters on my previous post! And anyone else that wants to play along - the more the merrier! I know some of you have already done it; but play along as it suits you, everyone.
I have to go now. I have to return something to the library. First, I need a disguise...
Hi ms*tinker :) - already been tagged for this - about 100 times, hee, hee.
it is there somewhere in my blog! hope your day has been wonderful xox
Posted by: miss*R | September 27, 2006 at 03:30 PM
oh I saw this on paris parfaits blog; what fun - now numerous relic? Is she 'great with child'?
Posted by: AscenderRisesAbove | September 27, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Hee!
Interesting....veddy interesting!
Thanks for playing!
Posted by: Roadchick | September 27, 2006 at 07:00 PM
Hmm. The closest tome at hand had this:
"Bring needle through to surface
at raw edge of motif. Insert
through edge of motif and"
Posted by: Soozcat | September 27, 2006 at 08:54 PM
Robyn, I'll have to play catch up and read back through your posts sometime!
Ascender - It is a fun meme? Have you done it yet? Consider yourself tagged if you'd like to try it...and actually it was a rather sad poem, about a mother dying :(
Roadchick - It was a very interesting little meme - thanks I think!
Soozcat - I wonder, is this a book on appliques or on embroidery or crewel?? I'm intrigued.
Thanks for stopping by everyone!
Posted by: tinker | September 28, 2006 at 01:57 AM
I just read my comment AFTER posting it and that was supposed to be an exclamation point after "It was a fun little meme" - not a question mark...Sorry, about that Ascender. I really need to mind my p's and q's (and especially my punctuation!)
Posted by: tinker | September 28, 2006 at 02:00 AM
"First, I need a disguise..."
Simply wear a white sheet and disguise yourself as a humble ghost. (Beware of pac-men...)
Posted by: Pacian | September 28, 2006 at 03:40 AM
hehe fun. I just hate returning books I never got around to reading..but do I learn and not check out 14 books at a time? Nnnnnope.
Posted by: Lisa | September 28, 2006 at 05:55 AM
Sorry already been tagged for this one, and done it somewhere on my blog. I hate taking well overdue library books back I always feel they treat me with distain and give me chilling looks, and I want to say well at least you got it back. You can take me off the black list now. Its my fault I checkout 20 at a time and don't go back till I have finsihed with them all.
Posted by: Daisy Lupin | September 28, 2006 at 08:17 AM
I bought this! Of course you get urine. LOL I'll do it tomorrow :)
Posted by: Tammy | September 28, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Hey...I turned in my overdue library books last weekend:-)
Want to go back today and find some more!
Posted by: Gemma | September 28, 2006 at 03:26 PM