I was driving down the M5 on Sunday when I ran over a roof rack bar, my poor old camper was relatively unscathed, but a tyre was blown and I spent a good hour sorting it out with the other driver and waiting for rescue. Ok, I can’t change a tyre.
So I spent the time writing haikus. Here is a selection:
Fast cars speed past us
Flat tire we await the AA
Roadside assistance
(I think the fast cars speed past us says the same thing twice, and the concept of line 2 could be said to over run on to line 3, perhaps:
The fast cars speed past us
Flat tired we await the AA
One hour at the most)
A stream of traffic
People driving flash by us
We are motionless
(Again the middle line is weak, perhaps” moving metal flashes by” works better?)
A roadside picnic
Accidently forced on us
All our plans on pause
(This set me thinking of Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, well more the wonderful film Stalker by Tarkovsky, we ate while we waited.)
Why am i telling you all this? Simply to say you can write anywhere. Always carry pen and paper and if you get the chance write. No matter, as in my case, that the result isn’t very good, just write-some of it will be. Just remember once you’ve got a skeleton you have to work on it and that does take time.
