John Lennon by Mary Jo Salter Flashcards
- the music was already turning sad, _____________
those fresh-faced voices singing in a round–
1B. the lie that time could ________________
set its needle back, and play from the beginning.
- Had you lived to eighty __________________
as you’d wished, who knows?
2B. –you might have broken from the circle _______________
of that past, more ours than yours
- Never even sure ______________
which was the truest color for your hair
3B. (it changed with each photographer), _______________
we claimed you for ourselves;
3C. called you John _________________
and named the day you left us
3D. (spun out like a reel– the last ________________)
broadcast to prove you’d lived at all
- an end to _________________
hope itself.
4B. It isn’t _______________________________
true, and worse, does you no justice
4C. if we call your death ________________
the death of anything but you.
- It put you ___________________________
in the headlines once again:
5B. years after you’d left the band, you joined another– of those _____________________________
whose lives, in breaking,
5C. link all _______________
memory with their end.
- The studio of _________________
history can tamper with you now,
6B. as if there’d always ______________________
been a single track chance traveled on,
6C. and your discordant voice ____________________
had led us to the final violence.
- Yet like the times when I, a star-crossed fan, ________________________
had catalogued your favorite foods,
7B. your views on ________________
monarchy and war,
7C. and gaily _____________________
clipped your quips and daily antics from the news,
- I keep a loving record of your death. All the evidence ____________
is in–of what, and to what end,
8B. It’s hard to figure out, ________________
riddles you might have beat into a song.
- A younger face of yours, _______________
a cover shot,
9B. peered from all the newsstands ______________
as if proof of some noteworthy thing you’d newly done.
