An Isolation Journal writing prompt appears in my email inbox every morning. I mostly lurk, while thousands of others internationally engage in this covid project. In other words, I don’t keep a journal but do enjoy reading Sulieka Jaouad’s introductions and her guest contributors’ stories and prompts.
To take a break from a serious post I’m working on, I thought it’d be fun to try today’s prompt. The prompt, briefly put, goes like this: “Write a bad poem,” whatever a bad poem means to you – sappy, singsongy, inscrutable, or whatever. Why not try to write your own bad poem? Meanwhile, here’s my bad isolation poem. It can be sung to the chorus of The Troggs’ 1966 hit “Wild Thing.”
Wild Hair
Wild hair,
You make the people stare,
You make me crazy,
Wild hair.
Wild hair,
It just isn’t fair,
You are an awful scare
Natural.
Wild hair,
I had no recourse,
My salon is closed,
Covid.
Wild hair,
I grabbed the scissors,
And I cut you,
Jagged.
Wild hair
Is now a worse scare,
When they see me,
On Zoom.
Photo: We call her Coco. She comes from one of the Caribbean islands where our son and his wife honeymooned. They gave it to us as a gift for helping them with trip expenses – a bit odd, but lovable. The main difference between my hair and Coco’s are my ever-growing long, stringy, graying bangs.
not quite ignored 