Saturday, November 3, 2007

Monkey Business

In the jungle once lived there a monkey king.


Who watched smilingly his troops a-swing.


When it struck him, right in his head


A tender coconut, from the palm overhead.




Now besides the throbbing bump that had swelled


As his bruised head he very gingerly held


In between bouts of severe aching pain


He felt this white light flash again and again.



And then though he was so very distraught


He recognized it, though unfamiliar, as THOUGHT …..


Trying to decide how to deal with it best


He got down to introspecting his unusual guest.




With a hint of wonder and a touch of suspicion


He chose to make no hasty decision


He rolled and he toyed and he mulled over it


Until he felt he had the hang of it .



As he reached out to grab and get the feel of it


Into tiny little fragments the THOUGHT did split


Of …“You will rule the world as Mankind “


Only an indecipherable jumble was left behind.




The ill-fated thought like the lump on his head


Had soon subsided to give way instead


To his wanting to be the leader of his simian group


Obeyed and venerated by this almost human troop.









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