Monkey Shines

MONKEY SHINES If people were like bonobos Or so at least the story goes We'd all live peacefully in trees Eating fruit and picking fleas But humans, filled with genes recessive, Have evolved much more aggressive Behaving more like chimpanzees Driving rivals to their knees Our aggression knows no bounds In the air or on the ground And if you think we're not that simian Just ask any Palestinian Bombs and bullets on their heads Drive them from their Arab beds You see them on the evening news Firing rockets at the Jews Just another struggle sadly A case of monkey's behaving badly