Am I a Monkey's Uncle?
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Not so long ago a group of clever
men
entered into our common domain under the sun
Their singular and somber step in great contrast
to the richness of freedom we enjoyed then
When the black hats came into our rich
forest
we watched them from above high
as they planted their iron cage in the center of a large clearing
and then as mysterious as they came
they left us to our own devices.
As the clever men knew we would
we descended and approached the cage
at first with great supicion and caution
but when we realized inside the cage
were all the coconuts we would ever
want in plain sight for the
taking
we slipped our arms in under the bar
to take benefit of what was freely there
But when we tried to draw the coconuts
out
we could not as the black bars would not permit
us It wasn't long after that the
clever men returned and
we not willing to let go of what we surely grasped
we lost our freedom not so long ago.
les raketti
November 30 2007
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