Take a famous quote and muff it all up. Let that be the first line of your poem, or make it a ghostline and erase it afterwards. Here are some examples from Twitter—from where I usually steal things.
Here are some more suggestions:
“Nattering Nabobs of Negativism” is brought to you by the letter “N”! Give it up everyone for the Spiro Agnew, man who really put the ass in assonance.
“I am not not a crook”
“I know Jack.” You know jackshit. [You’re no Jack Kennedy]
“Speak softly and carry a big stick and sail a motherfucking fleet right up in there.” Or drive a really big truck. Same thing.
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Or that one. Or that one. Yep, maybe that one. No, no, the other one.
And another stolen idea from Twitter:
And if the prompt above doesn’t spark anything, here is another stolen-Twitter prompt: write a poem with “Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts” as the title. Or write a poem explaining what boomsday prepper is.
And for the final bonus prompt: write a poem answering this question but specifically addressing the explanation to this particular cat. Like WTH is up with that cat.
Good luck!