Eliot's Inspiration

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 dVerse - Prosery: T. S. Eliot and J. Alfred Prufrock

To write a contribution you will have to incorporate the given line into a piece of prose of no longer than 144 words (including the given line but excluding the title).  You may punctuate and divide the line as you want, but you cannot insert any words into the line. 

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     T. S. Eliot… Could it be?
     A prompt based on Eliot’s line from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes”?
     A great line, a great metaphor. As to be expected by a great poet. Although his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is bizarre!
     T. S. Eliot… one of my favorites. I incorporated or quoted his work in seven of my own poems on this blog. That ties with Edna St. Vincent Millay, another favorite.
     Eliot’s The Wasteland is a fertile field of inspiration! Oh, the characters he created! How about that clairvoyant with the bad cold?
     His Gerontion fodder for a Golden Shovel. What a fabulous line, compelling me to read on, “Here I am, an old man in a dry month.”
     144 word limit? For Eliot? That’s an affront to his name!

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