Great-Dancing Monkey
Funky
monkey
Not Ben and Jerry’s!
Chunky
Monkey
Servant Baboon
Monkey
flunky
Monkey in Chains
Clunky
Monkey
Too Long Near Skunk Cage
Skunky
monkey
Monkey Tree Lover
Hanger
Langur
Foreman of Monkey Brigade
Langer
Ganger
When Monkeys Want to Eat like Humans
Baboons
grab spoons
Stolen by Renegade Baboons
Baboons
nab prunes
Jan. 18, 2023
for Brian Strand No 1172 Poetry Contest
I hide in a celom of a Langur when it sleeps,
In the shadow of a burl at the door of a temple,
I - a knotted clunker rolling ever so slowly
In the corner of the brotherhood of wreck,
I - holed up as a squirrel in the barrel
Of a hunter’s rusty shot-gun
The one without a shell.
The one no one wants to touch!
I have been dusting away under a fallen church bell.
A whiz of an incoming pendulum
Rives and cleaves all the past Moons
And any pollen in the moonlight
That may impregnate her before my eyes
Unwell thoughts of an unwell being, said he
Who has been recommended to heal me
Through this virtual box in the circus of life
I sure hear, and I sure work my tongue
Along the blade - a sharp knife!
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