What it is

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 9, 2010

10/9
Sonnets From Other Lives:  George

Lennon would be 70.  Imagine.
George is sitting watching the wheel go 'round.
--With the songs, in some small way, we'll always have him,
he thinks as he gets up & cranks the sound
up on Rock 'n' Roll, takes his guitar,
& plays some lines along with Stand By Me,
--Forty years it's been & you still are
rockin my soul .
                           George thinks that he
might head uptown--check out Strawberry Fields.
No doubt there there's something going on,
but on second thought, he really feels
like hanging out & jamming here with John.
Small irony, but really, all along
George's favorite Beatle has been John.
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  1. P. A .HofmannOctober 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM

    Mine too. I imagine there's no heaven, but there will always be those songs...
    Can't really say Happy Birthday can we.

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