Poets and Hair - more sense making

So last week the question arose - does poetry lead to bad hair or vice versa?

I have been checking the question out with the world's leading scientists, and while it is generally conceded that there is a strong link between bad hair and good poetry, there is still some level of disagreement as to what the relationship is.

Modern Science has discovered that the hair looms (little cells about the size of a marble just inside your skull where the hair is manufactured) serve the dual function of hair production as well as being the central storage site for poetical images. Thus some Scientists argue that the more over crowded these sites become with crazy/quirky and new ideas - the more likely they are to shift dramatically in temperature causing hairs feeding out of them to buckle and generally look quite disorganised.

Dr HildaFreddle says "We have even seen instances where red hot ideas can singe the hair before it even has a chance to leave the follicle, and this can cause it to be let out shorter than the rest of the hair - thus giving the illusion that the poet hasn't had a hair cut in quite a long time"

Hamish Seaney says "It's really terrible, I always have to book in with the hairdresser for a good few hours when I know I'm going on a big writing spraoi - it's the only way I know I'll be presentable again the following day."

Other Sociopsychological scientists studying the issue have come back with a slight variation on the hypothesis. "Yes funny ideas can cause your hair to look strange and scraggly," says Dr Poit "- but once this happens there is a self propogating feedback loop established whereby the poet is ostracised from 'normal' society because of their funny hair, then they get even more lonely and outsiderish, more likely to write poems, and the cycle continues"

"This is why some poets keep their hair very short" admits one famous poet, who would prefer to go unnamed, "too many of our number were being mistaken for simple mad people, so they have to be a bit more covert now, hiding the bad hair for the sake of getting their poetry to a wider audience." So far no link has been found between good hair and bad poetry.

Here's a pic of me at the Cáca Milis caberet with mad hair proudly on show, picture courtesy of the lovely folks at Cold 24, my hair was dead straight at the start of my set, and just kept getting madder with each poem, this was on the fourth one in.