Long Allegorygarden Poems

Death of the Half Monkey King

Death of The Half Monkey King      ( for my friend Neil Lloyd )

Cave men half human monkeys 
Sat gibbering and snarling
Perched all around his garden wall
Bestial vandals waving sticks and spears
Pointing angry at their own reflections
Fingering him as hidden
He peered nervous through his dark dim kitchen window

One of the brutals held a stake
And to crude spike was thrust
The rough severed golden crowned head
Of the Half Monkey King
Hawked on high
As if to salute a battle cry
The cave men humanoids
Squawked and raged their threatening
From the ledge of his garden wall 

“My first thoughts were of escape” he said
“But then NO ! I’ll go out
“chase them away
“do battle
“if I have to.”

And so grabbing his own ready stick
He ran out challenging
Shouting and yelling
Out into the thick of them all

Surprised confused these monkey android animals
Retreated and ran their cadre 
Running off up the back alley way
And so slinging on his back
Another ready sack filled weapons
And other assorted machine guns
He gave to the chase
To hunt these noisome  villains down

“RUN ! RUN ! From the Monkeys
“HIDE ! GO HOME !” he yelled through the streets
and loaded his riffle as he went
hunting until he found them
a gathered coercion of a crowd
he shot one
just one
as it was edged on by its cohorts
the brute made a dash screaming its madness 
only to meet the quick controlled shot

The others all fled

And then he woke up

And then in waking
With the strangest thing he thought
Heard from out his bedroom window
A muffled snarling
Caught him drawing back the curtain
To see about his garden wall perching
A thousand cave human half monkeys
Gathered and sitting quietly
Patiently waiting
While awkwardly passing
A rough golden crown amongst them