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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

I attended a Zoom book launch that was Zoom bombed with racist and Nazi images. It was awful. The majority of the people attending were elderly women.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

That’s awful. I feel I got off easy.

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Kim Nelson's avatar

I'm ever amazed

by nefarious ways

people waste

their creativity

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Michael Herzog's avatar

Ha ha - perfect capture.

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PS Lorcan's avatar

Is that why I haven’t seen a streaker at a ball game in such a long time? Have they all become stay-at-home Zoombators now? That’s just lazy!

I tried to join you for that last session on launch day last week, but alas, I failed Zoom 101 and couldn’t get set up, then discovered my laptop’s speakers are not working anyhow…techno woes.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Oh Jonathan! I'm so sorry. I love that you can find the humor in it, though.

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Patris's avatar

Rethinking my Zoom choices…..

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Jean E Scheid's avatar

That’s EXACTLY how it happened—lol

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Mark Rico's avatar

May the Zoom bomber find the capacity to regret the direction his life is taking and do something about it.

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Keith Aron's avatar

I'm convinced that poetry, if not the righter of all wrongs, at least makes the edges of everything a little softer. Sorry to hear that you got bombed, Jonathan...and/but, glad it inspired these words, which in turn inspired me to smile.

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Carole Roseland's avatar

OK, here you go:

There once was a poet named Jon

Whose zoom session really went wrong

A grotesque participant

Made it an incident

showing his uncovered schlong

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

You win the prize, Carole!

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Carole Roseland's avatar

Sorry you got off to a “rough” start! Your description was most humorous, however, and I’m amazed you could recover and continue so quickly.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Carole. Maybe it was the best thing that could’ve happened to deflate the pompous poetry tension. At any rate it makes for a good story in retrospect with a minimum of ptsd. Btw, I’m serous about the prize. Your limerick deserves one. So if you’ll dm me an address, I’ll have a complimentary copy of the book shipped to you.

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Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

Sorry, Jonathan there are some seriously crazy people out there

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Fotini Masika's avatar

I was inclined to write a limerick too, for the second Zoom call of that day, but whatever came to mind, I dismissed it right away... my husband wouldn't have liked it a bit :)

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David Kirkby's avatar

Wow. I didn't even know that Zoom Bombing was a thing....

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