NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 5

Today’s challenge is to write a poem about a mythical person or creature doing something unusual – or at least something that seems unusual in relation to that person/creature. For example, what does Hercules do when he loses a sock in the dryer? If a mermaid wants to pick up rock-climbing as a hobby, how does she do that? What happens when a mountain troll makes pancakes?

A restless letter in rusted rural mailbox,
tears in mermaid’s happy eyes,
and onions on chopping board.
All have some kind of unfinished business for sure.
Chop!
Chop!
Chop!
And, one by one tears roll down mermaid’s eyes
with utmost sincerity,
her distressed face and elf’s suspicious eyes
both surprise each other
and thus both laugh oddly at each other.
She puffs a cigar.
Premium cigar lay dead on infamous black plate.
A massive, gray-black cloud of misery floats high above her head.
“Electricity bill
house rent
water bill, just for £2 million a day !! “
The real state agent tricked her.
The broke mermaid
walks on a deserted path, fooling herself apparently.
“Can’t the sea accommodate this tiny, innocent sea-maid one last time? “
Misery crawls back to her at dead hour
“A tequila shot perhaps would help”.
A wild idea jumps soon into action
as she sells potions,
down the streets,
at coffee shops,
outside university gate,
nearby slums,
and on Mars,
claiming to cure all kinds of love diseases at once,
morphing poor appearances into pretty faces,
and blessing the heads with no shelter with big fat houses!
Her hands play with stars
her forest green fluke isn’t tired grooving to Jackson’s song,
and, while purchasing a farmhouse on Mars, she laughs her heart out.
A whopping £72 million profit definitely has a cure.
The modern mermaid is making riches ashore.