Short Marmoset Poems

A vulture boarded
A jumbo jet
Carrying two dead
Marmoset

The stewardess said 
"I'm sorry sir, 
Only one carrion 
Per passenger"...

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My neighbor has a marmoset
  a most unusual urban pet

His monkey has a silken coat
  and a non-prehensile tail
 
Which helped my neighbor not at all
  ~ when off he went to jail...

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I dream of small mottled rabbits 
Sleeping in silver caves under snowy river banks; 
I step stone by slippery stone 
Across the clear ice-flecked water, 
Shall I waken? 
Dreaming of marmoset and beaver, 
Dreaming Native dreams 
Of small, bright-eyes, 
Scurrying or cruel but always Bright. . ....

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Monkeys make the world go round
The world go round, the world go round
Monkeys make the world go round
They make the world go round.
Vervet, howler, capuchin
Marmoset or tamarin
Their ooking and their screaming sound
Can make the world go round.
Monkey-monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey....

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Give me back my pie little monkey said the ape man.
I wish I could said the pygmy marmoset, waving a fan.
You can! Said the ape man. And I want it done now.
You don’t have to have a fit, said marmoset. Don’t have a cow!

But it is my pie, I baked it this morning the ape man said.
It is full of juicy cherries, all sweetened and red.
If you don’t give it back, I shall beat you on the head.
Marmoset stuck out his tongue and ran off with it instead....

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