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June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

10/2
Sonnets From Other Lives: Tank Grrl

I wasn't that athletic as a kid.
Always last when they were picking teams.
I was the fat chick.  In PE I hid.
Could not imagine in my wildest dreams
I could be talked into trying out for derby.
It was love at first sight. Absolutely rockin.
You put a girl on skates & let her be
totally badass in torn fishnet stockings.
I don't have the speed to be a jammer,
but I can knock most anybody on her ass.
Just zero in on some poor chick and slam her.
Too bad there wasn't derby in gym class.
O to meet some high school princess in a bout
& say --I'm Tank Grrl bitch. I'm gonna TAKE YOU OUT!
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