Wonderland Today - a quadrille
Tears welled into an ocean
Hard to believe humans
Contained so much water
Alice knew swim she must
To get to the tea party
This was not yesterday's wonderland
To stay on that page
Here is a small fact:
You are going to die
The following are some opening lines. Please choose one as the closing line of your poem.
- “Here is a small fact: You are going to die.“
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. “It was a pleasure to burn.”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. “All this happened, more or less.”
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. “History has failed us, but no matter.”
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
5. “They shoot the white girl first.”
Paradise by Toni Morrison
6. “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
7. “The first thing I remember is being under something.”
Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
8. “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.“
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
9. “I was looking for a quiet place to die.”
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
10. “I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice.”
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
