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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.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

10/20
Sonnets From Other Lives: Bat Boy & The Alien

I saw Bat Boy & The Alien
in an airport bar in Minneapolis.
Bat Boy had commenced to tie one on,
& The Alien was looking real depressed.
I bought a round for both.  Hey wouldn't you?
What a comedown--both are unemployed,
what with the folding of The Weekly World News.
Bat Boy started in on how he'd toyed
with acting but he couldn't get the parts--
They just want zombies & vampires these days.
We ordered one more, then The Alien starts
to tell Bill Clinton stories.  Anyway,
my flight got called & so I had to run.
This economy is hard on everyone.
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