From Ape to Ape
I am a monkey, and so are you
and so are all of us.
Monkeys see and monkeys do.
So why then all the fuss?
When monkeys do not like to see
or hear, they close their eyes
and ears, and also stop their mouths—
for truths as well as lies.
And so we also do, my friends.
That's you and I and he.
The things we do not like—those things,
we neither hear nor see.
But then a time arrives, for each—
or most of us, I'd say.
And then, we're shocked to hear and see,
and so, like asses, bray.
So monkeys are, to donkeys, turned.
And so it is with apes.
We once had swung from branches. Now,
we're swinging by our napes.
2017 July 20th, Thu.
Brooklyn, New York
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