POETRY / POETRY PROMPT

“Choose Life,” Said the T-Shirt

I’ve decided to take its advice

I was a kid of ten years old when George and Andrew danced in colours bright (and shorts too tight!) and sang a jaunty song ‘bout jitterbugs and “wake me up”s, of “yo-yos” and of “go-go”s, while I turned up the TV and then danced and sang along.

As well as vibrant pullovers, the boys from Wham! wore tees of baggy white that said “Choose Life” on their fronts and on their backs. Around this time there was a fad for t-shirts just like these; the chatty types doling out advice like “Frankie Say Relax”!

Though it’s absurd to take the words of a slogan on a shirt and use them as a maxim to recite in times of strife, decided I this year gone by to heed the aphorism once taught to me by an 80s tee that told me to “choose life”.

With thanks to Sahil Patel for the tag to join in this daily poetry prompt challenge:

Day 6’s prompt is to write about an important life choice you made or you want to make in the future:

Tagging Dr. Preeti Singh Dr. Fatima Imam Josh Balerite Acol A Rustic Mind (Manali Desai) Prasant Trivedi Bhavna Narula Orla Kenny Anchal Melanie J. Carolyn Hastings Kyomi O’Connor TC Hails Karen Falcon Adelia Ritchie Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) Anthony O’Dugan Jeff Ehren Jack Lincoln Denise G Tree Langdon Jennifer McDougall Skye Mo’ipulelehua Kahoali’i Will Hull Edward Riley Sherry McGuinn Gaby Rogut Lindsay Soberano-Wilson Elle Beau ❇︎ Eva Rotolo Lee Ameka Sarah Paris Laurie Perez David Rudder Spyder Galit Birk, PhD Kiki Wellington Dave Logan Rhonda Marrone J.D. Harms Haikuster Diana C. Yael Wolfe Roz Warren Terry Trueman Denise Larkin Christina M. Ward and anyone else who would like to join in on this prompt.

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